Mediated Online Trading Server for Supplemental Content
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is a need for effective mediation of online trading services provided by third-party service providers, particularly in managing and tracking supplemental content related to digital content titles, as content providers often lack resources or expertise to handle these services.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for mediating online trading services, which includes a marketplace server for hosting supplemental content, a trading server for managing transactions, and a mediation server for authenticating users and configuring permissions, allowing for the transfer and reporting of supplemental content between user accounts, with features like escrow services to prevent fraud.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If content providers allow third-party service providers to supplement content, then the resources and expertise requirements for content providers are reduced, but the complexity of managing and tracking supplemental content increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a trading server as an intermediary between content providers and third-party service providers. The trading server manages supplemental content transactions, tracks content assignments to user accounts, and handles reporting requirements. This mediator resolves the contradiction by allowing content providers to easily supplement content through third parties while the trading server absorbs the management complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If third-party service providers host markets for supplemental content trading, then content providers can offer more supplemental services, but the need for statistical, accounting, and bookkeeping information management becomes more complicated
Solution Approach 1:
The trading server is designed as a universal platform that performs multiple functions: hosting supplemental content markets, managing user accounts, processing transactions, tracking content assignments, and generating statistical, accounting, and bookkeeping reports. This multi-functional approach allows third-party service providers to offer versatile supplemental services while the trading server consolidates the complicated information management tasks.
3Reliability
If mediated communications are used to transfer supplemental content, then user account security and permission management are improved, but the communication and transaction process becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The trading server acts as a mediated communication channel between users and third-party service providers. It authenticates users, verifies permissions, and securely transfers supplemental content while maintaining detailed records of all transactions. This intermediary approach improves security and reliability by centralizing authentication and permission management, while the added communication complexity is absorbed by the trading server's coordination functions.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods for mediation of online trading services are provided. Supplemental content related to a content title may be listed in a market or store for content. A client device sends a mediated communication to a trading server; the mediated communication may include mediation data and a request concerning the transfer of supplemental content. A user account associated with the client device is identified and the supplemental content may then be assigned to the user account. A report regarding activity associated with the assignment of the supplemental content may be generated in accordance with mediation data.