Method and system for creating a collaborative work over a digital network
First Claim
1. A computer-assisted method for having a plurality of participants author and submit segment candidates to create a collaborative work over a computer network comprising the steps of receiving over the computer network segment candidates prepared by at least some of the plurality of participants, distributing at least a subset of the submitted segment candidates to a voting audience over the computer network, receiving from the audience votes for a favored segment candidate, selecting a winning segment candidate from the submitted segment candidates for inclusion in the collaborative work based on the votes, and repeating the steps of submitting segment candidates, voting on the submitted segment candidates, and selecting a winning segment candidate to complete the collaborative work, wherein a promo, which is only authored by the author of the submitted segment, and which constitutes a subset of the content of the submitted segment, is submitted with each submitted segment candidate, said promo being indicative of the content of the submitted segment candidate, wherein said promo is designed to generate interest amongst members of the voting audience to view the submitted segment in full, wherein said promo comprises an image or graphic, and a title, summary, and excerpt, and wherein participation in said voting audience is open to the general public.
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Abstract
A system and method for having a plurality of participants author and submit segment candidates to create a collaborative work over a computer network. The plurality of participants receive segment instructions for authoring the segment candidates. The candidates are submitted to the system and at least a subset of the submitted segment candidates are distributed to a voting audience over the computer network. In response the system receives votes for a favored segment candidate from the voting audience. Next, a winning segment candidate is selected from the submitted segment candidates for inclusion in the collaborative work based on the votes. This process is repeated by the system until the collaborative work is complete.
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50 Claims
- 1. A computer-assisted method for having a plurality of participants author and submit segment candidates to create a collaborative work over a computer network comprising the steps of receiving over the computer network segment candidates prepared by at least some of the plurality of participants, distributing at least a subset of the submitted segment candidates to a voting audience over the computer network, receiving from the audience votes for a favored segment candidate, selecting a winning segment candidate from the submitted segment candidates for inclusion in the collaborative work based on the votes, and repeating the steps of submitting segment candidates, voting on the submitted segment candidates, and selecting a winning segment candidate to complete the collaborative work, wherein a promo, which is only authored by the author of the submitted segment, and which constitutes a subset of the content of the submitted segment, is submitted with each submitted segment candidate, said promo being indicative of the content of the submitted segment candidate, wherein said promo is designed to generate interest amongst members of the voting audience to view the submitted segment in full, wherein said promo comprises an image or graphic, and a title, summary, and excerpt, and wherein participation in said voting audience is open to the general public.
- 16. A system for creating collaborative works over a computer network, comprising a host server coupled to the computer network to distribute segment instructions and receive from a plurality of participants segment candidates based on the segment instructions, a voting module associated with the host server for presenting submitted segments to a voting audience over the computer network and for tabulating votes received from the voting audience for selecting winning segments to be used in the creation of the collaborative work, wherein said segment candidates are submitted with a promo, said promo being only authored by the author of the submitted segment, and constituting a subset of the submitted segment candidate, wherein said promo is designed to generate interest amongst members of the voting audience to view the submitted segment in full, wherein said promo comprises an image or graphic, and a title, summary and excerpt, and wherein participation in said voting audience is open to the general public.
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22. In a computer network comprising a host computer system and a plurality of computers associated with a plurality of participants having access to the host system over the network, a method of creating a collaborative work, the collaborative work including multiple segments submitted by multiple participants, the method comprising:
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presenting to the multiple participants instructions for creating a segment; receiving from at least a subset of the multiple participants segments submitted over the network; presenting the submitted segments to a voting audience over the network to vote for a favored segment; and creating the collaborative work by selecting winning segments based on the votes submitted by the voting audience, wherein a promo, which is only authored by the author of the submitted segment and constitutes a subset of the submitted segment, is submitted with each submitted segment candidate, said promo being indicative of the content of the submitted segment candidate, wherein said promo is designed to generate interest amongst members of the voting audience to view the submitted segment in full, wherein said promo comprises an image or graphic, and a title, summary and excerpt, and wherein participation in said voting audience is open to the general public. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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- 39. In a computer network comprising a host computer system and a plurality of computers associated with a plurality of participants having access to the host system over the network, a method for having at least some of the plurality of participants author and submit segment candidates to create a collaborative work over the computer network comprising the steps of providing segment instructions to the plurality of participants for authoring the segment candidates, receiving segment candidates prepared by at least some of the plurality of participants based on the segment instructions, receiving identifying information for each of the plurality of participants submitting a segment candidate, storing the segment candidates and identifying information in a database, distributing at least a subset of the submitted segment candidates to a voting audience over the computer network, receiving in stages from at least some of the voting audience votes for a favored segment candidate, selecting a winning segment candidate from the submitted segment candidates for inclusion in the collaborative work based on the votes, and repeating the steps of presenting segment instructions, submitting segment candidates, voting on the submitted segment candidates, and selecting a winning segment candidate to complete the collaborative work wherein each winning segment builds upon the previous segment to sequentially create the collaborative work, wherein a promo, which is only authored by the author of the submitted segment, and which constitutes a subset of the content of the submitted segment, is submitted with each submitted segment candidate, said promo being indicative of the content of the submitted segment candidate, wherein said promo is designed to generate interest amongst members of the voting audience to view the submitted segment in full, wherein said promo comprises an image or graphic, and a title, summary and excerpt, and wherein participation in said voting audience is open to the general public.
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46. In a computer system for displaying content including at least one of text, video, image and audio data, a method for selecting winning content from a plurality of content based on votes received from a plurality of participants comprising:
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assigning a vote score to each vote received from a participant; associating the received votes with the content, in a first stage identifying a subset of the content based on at least a ranking of the vote scores, and in a subsequent stage evaluating the subset of the content until the winning content is selected by the participants, wherein a promo, which is only authored by the author of the submitted segment and which constitutes a subset of the submitted segment, is submitted with each submitted segment candidate, said promo being indicative of the content of the submitted segment candidate, wherein said promo is designed to generate interest amongst members of the voting audience to view the submitted segment in full wherein said promo comprises an image or graphic, and a title, summary and excerpt and wherein participation in said voting audience is open to the general public. - View Dependent Claims (47, 48)
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49. A computer-assisted method for having a plurality of participants author and submit segment candidates to create a collaborative work over a computer network comprising the steps of receiving over the computer network segment candidates prepared by at least some of the plurality of participants, distributing at least a subset of the submitted segment candidates to a voting audience over the computer network, receiving from the audience votes for a favored segment candidate, selecting a winning segment candidate from the submitted segment candidates for inclusion in the collaborative work based on the votes, and repeating the steps of submitting segment candidates, voting on the submitted segment candidates, and selecting a winning segment candidate to complete the collaborative work, wherein a promo, which is only authored by the author of the submitted segment, and which constitutes a subset of the content of the submitted segment, is submitted with each submitted segment candidate, said promo being indicative of the content of the submitted segment candidate, wherein said promo is designed to generate interest amongst members of the voting audience to view the submitted segment in full, and wherein the winning segment is chosen based on viewings of the promo, viewings of the segment and a merit score for the segment, and wherein participation in said voting audience is open to the general public.
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50. A computer-assisted method for having a plurality of participants author and submit segment candidates to create a collaborative work over a computer network comprising the steps of receiving over the computer network segment candidates prepared by at least some of the plurality of participants, distributing at least a subset of the submitted segment candidates to a voting audience over the computer network, receiving from the audience votes for a favored segment candidate, selecting a winning segment candidate from the submitted segment candidates for inclusion in the collaborative work based on the votes, and repeating the steps of submitting segment candidates, voting on the submitted segment candidates, and selecting a winning segment candidate to complete the collaborative work, wherein a promo, which is only authored by the author of the submitted segment, and which constitutes a subset of the content of the submitted segment, is submitted with each submitted segment candidate, said promo being indicative of the content of the submitted segment candidate, wherein said promo is designed to generate interest amongst members of the voting audience to view the submitted segment in full, wherein said collaborative work is one of a novel, story, screenplay, multi-media presentation, sales presentation and musical score, wherein said promo comprises a title, summary, and excerpt, and wherein participation in said voting audience is open to the general public.
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