Revenue Sharing via Content Metadata Tagging
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current technologies lack effective methods to track and manage content items across the internet, particularly in ensuring proper usage and revenue distribution for content owners, especially in web page environments where advertisements are displayed.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a system that uses metadata tags, such as EXIF, IPTC, or XMP, to identify content items, track their usage, and calculate revenue shares based on sharing levels and cost-per-use amounts, allowing owners to manage their content items and revenue through a tracking system that integrates with advertisement management systems.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If content items are displayed on web pages with advertisements, then revenue generation is improved, but tracking and managing content item usage becomes complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the content item data into distinct components: content identifier, owner identification, and sharing level metadata. This segmentation allows the system to track and manage each aspect separately, simplifying the overall complexity of monitoring content usage across multiple web pages while maintaining accurate revenue tracking.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary system that acts as a mediator between content owners, web pages, and advertisement systems. This intermediary automatically tracks content item usage, calculates revenue shares based on predefined sharing levels, and distributes payments, thereby reducing the complexity burden on individual stakeholders and enabling scalable revenue generation.
2Measurement precision
If content item usage is tracked across the internet, then revenue distribution accuracy is improved, but measurement and detection difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by embedding the owner identification and sharing level metadata into the content item before it is distributed across the internet. This pre-tagging approach ensures that when the content item is displayed on any web page, the tracking information is already present and automatically detectable, eliminating the need for complex real-time detection mechanisms and enabling precise revenue distribution.
3Adaptability or versatility
If metadata tags are used to identify content items, then content item control is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal metadata tag structure that serves multiple functions simultaneously: identifying the content item, tracking the owner, defining sharing levels, and enabling revenue calculation. This multi-functional approach consolidates what could be multiple separate systems into a single integrated solution, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining versatile content item control capabilities.
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AI summary
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, may be used for sharing revenue associated with a multimedia object. A content item on a web page that includes one or more advertisements may be identified along with an owner identification and a sharing level associated with the content item. The owner identification is associated with an owner account. A web page revenue amount generated from the one or more advertisements on the web page is calculated along with a share revenue amount based on the web page revenue amount and the sharing level, and the share revenue amount is applied to the owner account.