System and method for content development

• US 8,073,792 B2
• Filed: 03/13/2008
• Issued: 12/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: TopCoder, Inc. (Wipro Limited)
• Original Assignee: TopCoder, Inc. (Wipro Limited)
• Inventors: Hughes, John M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Rivas, Omar Fernandez
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bharadwaj, Kalpana
• Application Number:
  US12/048,189
• Publication Number:
  US 20080228681A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,363 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 706/21
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/188 Electronic negotiation

Abstract

This invention relates to a system and methods for developing content. In general, in one aspect, a method for developing content includes electronically distributing a specification for content to a distributed community of content developers, receiving submissions from each of a subset of the community of content developers in response to the distributed specification, holding a first vote in which a group of voters rank a first number of submissions and identify the order in which they predict the submissions will be ranked by others, selecting the highest scoring submissions in the first vote, holding a second vote to evaluate the submissions that receive the highest score in the first vote; and selecting a winner based on the second vote.

Claims

1. A method for developing content, comprising:

electronically distributing a specification for content to a distributed community of content developers;

receiving submissions from each of a subset of the community of designers in response to the distributed specification;

holding a first vote among a first group of voters comprising a first contest in which the first group of voters rank a first number of submissions and identify the order in which they the group of voters predict the submissions will be ranked by voters other than the first group of voters;

holding a second vote among a second group of voters to evaluate the submissions that receive the highest score in the first vote; and

selecting a winner based on the second vote.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising, prior to the first contest, reviewing the submissions for intellectual property issues.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the intellectual property issues comprise originality.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the intellectual property issues comprise authorship.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the intellectual property issues comprise copyright.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising, prior to the second contest, reviewing the submissions for intellectual property issues.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the content is a graphic design.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the content comprises music.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the first contest uses a Schulze type method for comparison.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the first group of voters are rewarded for their participation.