INTERNET NEWS COMPENSATION SYSTEM
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1. An internet news compensation system comprising:
- a computer net server to accept, index, and present for view news and information items submitted by a plurality of individual reporters, and further to track and meter the news and information items chosen by a plurality of independent viewers and further to calculate compensation due each of the plurality of individual reporters based upon at least one viewer exposure measure of and accruing to each of the submitted news and information items.
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Abstract
A computerized compensation system of disseminating a plurality of news and information items offered, contributed, and submitted by a plurality of independent submitters to an internet provider site. The provider site accepts, indexes, catalogs, tracks, meters, and calculates viewer exposure to each submitted news and information item chosen by a plurality of viewers. Compensation due individual submitters is transmitted in real time, as the submitter continues the submission to the provider web site. Billing of funding sources is provided.
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16 Claims
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1. An internet news compensation system comprising:
a computer net server to accept, index, and present for view news and information items submitted by a plurality of individual reporters, and further to track and meter the news and information items chosen by a plurality of independent viewers and further to calculate compensation due each of the plurality of individual reporters based upon at least one viewer exposure measure of and accruing to each of the submitted news and information items. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method of Internet news compensation, comprising:
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registering a provider Internet site; providing a reporter server to accept, source index, and store a plurality of news and information items submitted by a plurality of Internet reporters; specifying a preface lead to at least one of the plurality of news and information items where the news and information item comprises a lead and a media report; providing the reporter server with an item sorter to identify, interpret, sort, rank, and segregate the plurality of news and information items into groups within a catalog based upon pre-selected criteria applied to the lead; providing an advertiser server with an advertisement sorter to identify, interpret, sort, and segregate submitted advertisements into groups within a catalog based upon pre-selected criteria; providing a viewer server to display the news and information items, the advertisements, the groups and the catalog on an Internet site to a plurality of free agent viewers; and providing a computer metering mechanism to track selections, meter the duration of view by the plurality of free agent viewers, and to calculate a compensation due to each of the plurality of Internet reporters and charges due to each advertiser based upon a number of the plurality of free agent viewers and a sum duration of view accruing to each submittal of the plurality of news and information items.
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13. A method, comprising:
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accepting a news item from a reporter; making the news item available to a viewer on an Internet site; and calculating a reporter compensation based on a viewer exposure measure accruing to the news item. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16)
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