Internet news compensation system

• US 8,095,467 B2
• Filed: 10/18/2004
• Issued: 01/10/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/14/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: David S. Bettinger
• Original Assignee: David S. Bettinger
• Inventors: Bettinger, David S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Kucab, Jamie
• Assistant Examiner(s): Coppola, Jacob C.
• Application Number:
  US10/967,560
• Publication Number:
  US 20050049971A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,640 Days
• Field of Search: 705/51
• US Class Current: 705/52
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0272 Period of advertisement exposure
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0273 Determination of fees for advertising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0283 Price estimation or determination
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]

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.

Claims

1. An internet news compensation system, comprising:

a submitter web server to accept and index a multi-media exposition;

an independent submitter web terminal to submit and update the multi-media exposition by an independent submitter;

a viewer web server to display the multi-media exposition on a provider site to a free agent viewer utilizing a viewer web terminal; and

a metering mechanism, comprising;

a tracker to track the multi-media exposition upon selection by the free agent viewer for display;

a calculator to calculate compensation accruing to the independent submitter based on at least one selected viewer exposure measure accruing to the submitted multi-media exposition; and

an updater/communicator to update the compensation and communicate the updated compensation to the submitter web terminal;

where the submitter web server, the independent submitter web terminal, the viewer web server, and the metering mechanism are all in continuous real time electronic communication among each other, and

where the compensation due the independent submitter is disposed for continuous real time communication to the independent submitter web terminal during the continuous real time electronic communication of the multi-media exposition by the submitter web terminal.

2. The internet news compensation system of claim 1, where the viewer exposure measure is chosen from a measure of a number of viewers, a measure of a duration of view of the free agent viewer, a measure of a free agent viewer response, a measure of free agent viewer click through to a linked site, and all possible measure combinations thereof.

3. The internet news compensation system of claim 1, where the viewer web server is in real time communication with associated internet sites of viewing availability of the multi-media exposition.

4. The internet news compensation system of claim 1, where the submitter web server accepts and indexes the multi-media exposition based upon a lead of the multi-media exposition.

5. The internet news compensation system of claim 1, further comprising a layout web server to accept and index funding source media item from a funding source web terminal.

6. The internet news compensation system of claim 5, where the layout web server accepts and records the multi-media exposition in an archive.

7. The internet news compensation system of claim 4, where the submitter web server identifies, interprets, sorts, ranks, and segregates the multi-media exposition into a group within a catalog, based upon preselected criteria applied to the lead, and where the viewer web server displays multi-media exposition groups and the multi-media exposition catalog on an internet site to the free agent viewer.

8. The internet news compensation system of claim 5, where the layout web server retrieves, accepts, and indexes a background media item from at least one of a web server and a terminal.

9. The internet news compensation system of claim 5, where the layout web server accepts and indexes the funding source media item based upon a preference list of the funding source media item.

10. The internet news compensation system of claim 9, where the layout web server positions the funding source media item in close proximity to the multi-media exposition of a related catalog group based upon the preference list of the funding source media item.

11. The internet news compensation system of claim 9, where the preference list further comprises a price value of each preference item.

12. The internet news compensation system of claim 11, further comprising a calculator to calculate expense accruing to the funding source media item based on at least one instance of the price value and at least one instance of the viewer exposure measure.

13. The internet news compensation system of claim 12, where the calculator to calculate compensation accruing to the independent submitter further calculates based upon a portion of a sum of expenses accruing to the funding source media item for the multi-media exposition of the independent submitter.

14. The internet news compensation system of claim 1, where a beginning of a submission of the multi-media exposition by the independent submitter is unscheduled by the provider site.

15. The Internet news compensation system of claim 1, where a beginning of a submission of the multi-media exposition by the independent submitter is scheduled at a day and time mutually preselected by the independent submitter and the provider site.

16. The internet news compensation system of claim 14, where the independent submitter comprises a reporter,

further the multi-media exposition is an unscheduled news and information report,

further a site provider comprises a news collection and dissemination agency,

further the provider site comprises a news and information internet site controlled and operated by the site provider,

further the lead comprises a subject, an identity, a location, and a payment account,

further a funding source comprises an advertising agency,

further the funding source media item comprises an advertisement,

further the metering mechanism comprises at least one of a measurer to measure a number of viewers, a report time determiner to determine a time of day of the news and information report downloaded from the provider site by the free agent viewer, and a duration time determiner to determine a time of day of a duration of view of the news and information report downloaded from the provider site by the free agent viewer, where the metering mechanism calculator utilizes the measurements and determinations to provide for compensation determination for the reporter further where the metering mechanism communicates the compensation to the reporter as the reporter continues submission of the news and information report.

17. The internet news compensation system of claim 15, where the independent submitter comprises an instructor,

further the multi-media exposition is an instruction class,

further the provider site comprises an internet site controlled and operated by the provider,

further the lead comprises a subject, an identity, a location, and a payment account.