DISTRIBUTION OF CONTENT
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Abstract
Among other things, publishers of digital content are enabled each to define, for each of one or more digital content items, a style in which the digital content item is to be presented to a user and a condition under which the user may have the digital content item presented. The digital content items are stored in a content library, the styles and conditions associated with the digital content items are stored in a server. Each of the digital content items is enabled to be presented to users within presentation contexts that are accessible to the users and controlled by presentation context providers. The presentation of the digital content items includes obtaining the digital content items from the server and controlling the presentation to occur under the conditions and in the styles defined by the publishers.
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32 Claims
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1-15. -15. (canceled)
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16. A method comprising
enabling a first user to electronically refer a digital content items to a second user, and in connection with the referral, enabling a publisher of the digital content item to control a context in which and a financial condition under which the digital content item may be presented to the other user.
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19-26. -26. (canceled)
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27. A method comprising
providing a central service that enables publishers to publish digital content items through the service directly at retail for presentation to users for compensation, the central service also enabling the publishers to electronically establish relationships with affiliates to permit the publishers to publish the digital content items through the service and the affiliates indirectly at wholesale for presentation by the affiliates to the users for compensation.
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32-39. -39. (canceled)
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