TRACKING FOR ROYALTY DETERMINATION

• US 20140074674A1
• Filed: 10/10/2013
• Published: 03/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Deng, Yu, Karve, Alexei A., Kochut, Andrzej, Rendahl, Randy A., Sailer, Anca, Shaikh, Hidayatullah H.
• Application Number:
  US14/050,545
• Publication Number:
  US 20140074674A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/0855 involving a third party
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/1235 with control of digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/405 Establishing or using transaction specific rules
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0206 Price or cost determination based on market factors
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions

Abstract

A system including at least one memory having a plurality of individual contributions forming a compilation stored in the at least one memory; and at least one processor connected to the at least one memory, where the processor is configured to use provenance data associated with a catalog item to track an individual contribution in a compilation of contributions, where the compilation is stored in the at least one memory; and dynamically compute a royalty distribution for the individual contribution based, at least partially, upon at least one metric related to the contributions which form the compilation.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

at least one memory having a plurality of individual contributions forming a compilation stored in the at least one memory; and

at least one processor connected to the at least one memory, where the processor is configured to;

use provenance data associated with a catalog item to track an individual contribution in a compilation of contributions, where the compilation is stored in the at least one memory; and

dynamically compute a royalty distribution for the individual contribution based, at least partially, upon at least one metric related to the contributions which form the compilation.

2. The system as in claim 1 where the individual contribution is stored in the at least one memory in a cloud environment.

3. The system as in claim 1 where the at least one metric includes usage of the individual contribution, by at least one user, relative to usage of at least one other of the contributions of the compilation.

4. The system as in claim 1 where the at least one metric includes at least one rating of the individual contribution relative to rating(s) of at least one other of the contributions of the compilation.

5. The system as in claim 1 where the at least one metric includes a dependency relationship of the individual contribution relative to at least one other of the contributions of the compilation.

6. The system as in claim 1 where the at least one metric includes dependability of the individual contribution relative to dependability of at least one other of the contributions of the compilation.

7. The system as in claim 1 where the system is configured to use a weighting system to determine the royalty distribution for the individual contribution.

8. The system as in claim 1 where the system is configured to dynamically compute the royalty distribution at different points in time for the individual contribution.

9. The system as in claim 8 where the system is configured to determine a total royalty value to be distributed for the individual contribution for a predetermined period of time based upon the dynamically computed royalty distribution over that predetermined period of time.

10. A non-transitory program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine, the operations comprising:

using provenance data associated with a catalog item to track an individual contribution in a compilation of contributions, where the compilation is stored in a memory; and

dynamically computing a royalty distribution for the individual contribution based, at least partially, upon at least one metric related to the contributions which form the compilation.