Content Distribution System Using Peer-to-Peer Network and Credit Rewards
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional content distribution systems are inefficient in compensating content providers and fail to effectively target viewers with relevant advertisements, leading to resource-intensive server farms and low viewer engagement.
Innovation Solution
A system that maps viewer interests to sponsored content by rewarding viewers with redeemable credits for watching targeted advertisements, allowing users to earn credits based on viewing time and use them to purchase items, thereby subsidizing content distribution and improving ad relevance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If conventional content distribution systems use server farms to distribute content, then content delivery capability is improved, but resource cost and operational expense increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a peer-to-peer content distribution network where users share content directly with each other through their personal devices and storage capacity. This eliminates the need for centralized server farms, allowing the system to serve itself without requiring expensive infrastructure. Users contribute their own computing resources to the network, transforming consumers into both consumers and providers of content.
2Productivity
If conventional systems distribute targeted advertisements to viewers, then ad reach is improved, but viewer engagement and relevance decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary analysis of user profiles, interests, and viewing habits before selecting and delivering advertisements. By pre-processing user data and creating detailed preference profiles, the system can match ads to viewers in advance, ensuring high relevance when ads are displayed. This preliminary action enables both broad reach and high engagement by customizing ad delivery to individual user preferences.
3Device complexity
If conventional content distribution systems operate without compensation mechanisms, then system simplicity is maintained, but content provider sustainability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a credit-based feedback mechanism where viewers earn credits for watching content and advertisements, which can then be redeemed for purchases or rewards. Content providers receive compensation in the form of these credits or direct revenue shares based on viewer engagement. This feedback loop ensures content providers are fairly compensated for their contributions, creating a sustainable ecosystem while maintaining relative system simplicity through automated credit allocation and tracking.
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AI summary
Methods and systems for distributing content are disclosed. A first plurality of items of content, including video content, is selected based on one or more criteria. Information is accessed indicating respective time lengths and/or qualifying viewing times corresponding to items in the first plurality of items of content. The first plurality of items of content or representations thereof is provided for display on the user terminal in association with the respective time lengths and/or qualifying viewing times. In response to a user selection, a first item of content included in the first plurality of items of content is caused to be played or otherwise distinctly presented by the user terminal in conjunction with a timer corresponding the a respective qualifying viewing time.