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Content Platform Enabling Content Distribution Through Virtual Goods

  • US 20130226733A1
  • Filed: 02/27/2012
  • Published: 08/29/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2012
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. One or more computer readable mediums storing one or more sequences of instructions, which when executed by one or more processors, cause:

  • storing, at a content platform, tiered pricing data that defines, for each of a plurality of content producers, a sequence of tiers, wherein each tier in the sequence of tiers is associated with a different price and a particular number of virtual goods;

    the content platform identifying a next available virtual good for a particular content provider based on how many virtual goods associated with the particular content provider have already been purchased; and

    upon receiving payment, from the user, for a virtual good, the content platform providing ownership of the virtual good to the user to entitle the user to receive restricted content provided by the content producer associated with the virtual good,wherein the visual appearance of the virtual good is based, at least in part, upon how many virtual goods of the content producer have already been purchased.

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