Incentives for content consumption
First Claim
1. A system for tracking user demographics and content preferences, and for incentivizing user activity, comprising:
- I. a user system adapted to monitor delivery of content from a separate content delivery entity, communicate user demographic information and user activity information to a separate integrating entity, and to enable a user to navigate at least part of said integrating entity, comprising;
a. a media player ancillary portion adapted to receive, parse and report to a dispatching portion content activity information about content being delivered to a media player by said separate content delivery entity;
b. a dispatching portion adapted to receive said content activity information and send at least part of said content activity information to said separate integrating entity; and
c. a command and control portion adapted to run on at least the operating system of a user device and to allow the user to navigate at least part of the integrating entity; and
II. a separate integrating entity adapted to receive user demographic information and content activity information from said user system, award incentives based on at least part of said content activity information, and enable users to redeem said incentives.
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Abstract
Systems for incentive enabling and demographic generation in order to allow content owners, distribution entities, advertisers and others to learn more about consumers and to incentivize comsumption of certain media products, infrastructure devices, or consumer products, among others. Preferably, systems according to the present invention include an integrating functionality which receives, stores and processes certain user demographic information with user content activity information, such as, for instance, streaming a particular song by a particular artist for a particular number of milliseconds, in order to award points or other incentives and to map various characteristics of content being consumed against user demographics. Functionality at the client level monitors content being streamed and reports information about that content, together with user demographic information, to the integrating functionality, or when the user is not logged in stores it locally for later reporting. Other functionality at the client level allows the user to navigate the integrating functionality, logon, check incentive account status, update contact information, participate in redemption of rewards, and perform other activities.
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45 Claims
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1. A system for tracking user demographics and content preferences, and for incentivizing user activity, comprising:
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I. a user system adapted to monitor delivery of content from a separate content delivery entity, communicate user demographic information and user activity information to a separate integrating entity, and to enable a user to navigate at least part of said integrating entity, comprising;
a. a media player ancillary portion adapted to receive, parse and report to a dispatching portion content activity information about content being delivered to a media player by said separate content delivery entity;
b. a dispatching portion adapted to receive said content activity information and send at least part of said content activity information to said separate integrating entity; and
c. a command and control portion adapted to run on at least the operating system of a user device and to allow the user to navigate at least part of the integrating entity; and
II. a separate integrating entity adapted to receive user demographic information and content activity information from said user system, award incentives based on at least part of said content activity information, and enable users to redeem said incentives. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A system for motivating listener activity and generating demographic information relating to at least one of content and product, comprising:
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I. a user system adapted to operate on a user device, which user device includes at least one content reception application, the user system including;
a. a monitoring computer program adapted to monitor delivery of content and generate content activity information based on content being delivered to said content reception application;
b. a communications computer program adapted to receive at least part of said content activity information and sent at least part of said content activity information, coupled with demographic information related to the user of the user device, to a separate central system; and
c. a coordination computer program adapted to enable the user to log onto said separate central system in order for at least part of said content activity information and user demographic information to be sent to said separate central system, and to enable the user to navigate at least part of said separate central system; and
II. a central system located separately from said user system, adapted to receive, store and process at least part of said content activity information and user demographic information from said user system, and to award incentives selectively and variably based on characteristics of at least said content activity information. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. A system for motivating listener activity and generating content related demographic information, comprising:
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I. a user system adapted to operate on a user device, which user device includes at least one content reception application, the user system including;
a. monitoring means for monitoring content being received by said content reception application and generating content activity information based on at least one characteristic of said content being received;
b. communication means for sending at least part of said content activity information to a separate central system; and
c. coordination means for allowing the user to log on to said central system and to navigate at least part of said central system in order to check status of incentives and to redeem at least part of said incentives; and
II. a central system located separately from said user system, comprising;
a. means for receiving, storing and processing at least part of said content activity information, and for awarding incentives at least partially selectively and variably based on characteristics of at least said content activity information. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39)
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40. A process for motivating listener activity and generating content related demographic information, comprising:
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I. in a user system adapted to operate on a user device, which user device includes at least one content reception application;
a. monitoring content being received by said content reception application and generating content activity information based on at least one characteristic of said content being received;
b. communication means for sending at least part of said content activity information to a separate central system; and
C. c. enabling the user to log on to said central system and to navigate at least part of said central system in order to check status of incentives and to redeem at least part of said incentives; and
II. in a central system located separately from said user system;
a. receiving, storing and processing at least part of said content activity information, and b. awarding incentives at least partially selectively and variably based on characteristics of at least said content activity information. - View Dependent Claims (41, 42, 43, 44, 45)
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