Crowdsourced Creative Work Contribution System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Creative individuals often face mental obstacles, such as 'writer's block,' which hinder their ability to complete works without an effective solution to overcome these challenges, and there is a lack of systems allowing anonymous or known contributions from others to assist in the creative process.
Innovation Solution
A creative work contribution system that includes a server and computing devices for creators and contributors, enabling the submission, processing, and aggregation of contributions, with features like mobile applications, user profiles, voting options, and time limits for creative work requests, allowing contributors to assist creators from various locations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a creator waits for time to pass to overcome writer's block, then the mental obstacle may eventually resolve itself, but the completion time of the creative work is extended and productivity is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary system (contribution platform) that mediates between the creator and potential sources of inspiration (other users). Instead of passively waiting for time to resolve writer's block, the creator actively engages with the intermediary system to receive contributions, suggestions, or creative prompts from the community, thereby accelerating the resolution of mental obstacles while maintaining creative integrity
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables creators to self-serve by allowing them to post their creative challenges to the platform and receive automated matching with relevant contributors. The platform provides self-service mechanisms including automated contribution delivery, filtering, and integration tools that allow creators to quickly incorporate external input without extensive manual coordination, thus reducing completion time while overcoming mental blocks
2Ease of operation
If no system is in place for receiving external contributions, then the creator maintains full control and simplicity of the creative process, but the ability to overcome mental obstacles through external input is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary system (contribution platform) that mediates between the creator and potential sources of inspiration (other users). Instead of passively waiting for time to resolve writer's block, the creator actively engages with the intermediary system to receive contributions, suggestions, or creative prompts from the community, thereby accelerating the resolution of mental obstacles while maintaining creative integrity
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where creators receive structured input from contributors, can evaluate and select useful suggestions, and provide feedback to refine future contributions. This creates a controlled feedback loop that maintains simplicity for the creator while systematically providing external input to overcome mental obstacles
3Reliability
If the creator opens the creative work request to multiple contributors, then diverse input and suggestions are received to overcome mental obstacles, but the complexity of managing and selecting contributions increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the contribution management process into distinct functional modules: contribution submission, automated filtering based on relevance criteria, voting/ranking mechanisms, and selective integration. This segmentation allows multiple contributors to participate without overwhelming the creator, as the system automatically organizes and prioritizes inputs, reducing management complexity while maintaining diverse input streams
4Reliability
If anonymous contributions are allowed, then contributors can provide honest feedback without social pressure, but the ability to build rapport and ongoing collaborative relationships is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a dynamic anonymity system where contributor identities can be adjusted based on the creator's preferences and the specific creative context. The system allows creators to choose between anonymous, pseudonymous, or fully identified contributors, and enables contributors to reveal identities at different stages of the collaboration. This dynamic approach maintains honesty through initial anonymity while facilitating relationship building when appropriate
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AI summary
Described is a creative work contribution system. The system includes a server, a creator computing device and a plurality of contributor computing devices. The creator computing device and the plurality of contributor computing devices may be coupled to the server. The server may be programmed to receive and store a creative work request from the creator computing device; automatically process the creative work request and send the creative work request to the plurality of contributor computing devices for display and for entering contributions to the creative work request; receive and store the contributions entered by the plurality of contributor computing devices; and automatically deliver the received contributions entered by the plurality of contributor computing devices for display on the creator computing device. The system allows for crowd sourcing of creative input into specific types of creative works to help a creator overcome mental obstacles.