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CLIENT-SERVER SYSTEM FOR MANAGING AN ITEM DATABASE AND ITEM TRANSACTIONS WITH USER-ITEM ASSOCIATIONS

  • US 20090043661A1
  • Filed: 08/07/2008
  • Published: 02/12/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2007
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. An apparatus for tracking user contributions and distributing revenue associated with the user contributions, the apparatus comprising:

  • an item database,an item server coupled to the item database, the item server capable of reading and modifying the item database;

    a transaction database; and

    a transaction server coupled to the transaction database, the transaction server capable of reading and modifying the transaction database;

    wherein the item database comprises a table of associations;

    wherein the table of associations associates an owner with an item record;

    wherein the owner is a user that contributed to the item database by requesting the item record to be added to the item database or by perfecting an existing item record, wherein the transaction database comprises a table of transactions;

    wherein the table of transactions associates revenue with item records.

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