Downstream tracking of content consumption
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsDulce B. Ponceleon, Nitin Gaur, Peter Guglielmino
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Abstract
An example operation may include one or more of storing, within a blockchain, a request comprising an identifier of content and a value of a user who created the content, detecting consumption of a reusable instance of the content by a second user, designating fractional values of the content to the first and second users based on the detected consumption of the reusable instance, and storing, within the blockchain, a second request comprising an identifier of the reusable instance of the content, identifiers of the first and second users, and the designated fractional values of the content to the first and second users.
Claims16
An apparatus, comprising:
- a storage device comprising a blockchain ledger configured to store content created by a creator, the content comprising an identifier identifying the content, a value given to the content and assigned to the creator, and metadata comprising the value;
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- a processor configured to:
- detect a consumption of an instance of the content by a first user that is different than the creator,
- remove a first fractional value of the value representing ownership of the content assigned to the creator and assign it to the first user based on the detected consumption of the instance and reduce the value representing the ownership of the content assigned to the creator based on the fractional value assigned to the first user,
- store the first fractional value assigned to the first user and the reduced value assigned to the creator in metadata of the instance;
- detect an additional consumption of the instance of the content by a second user that is downstream from the first user, and in response, remove a second fractional value from the reduced value assigned to the creator and assign it to the second user based on the additional consumption of the instance, and reduce the reduced value based on the second fractional value assigned to the second user;
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- store the re-reduced value assigned to the creator, the first fraction value assigned to the first user, and the second fractional value assigned to the second user within metadata of the additional consumed instance on the blockchain ledger.
A method comprising:
- detecting, via a blockchain peer, a consumption of an instance of a content by a first user that is different than a creator of the content, the content comprising an identifier identifying the content, a value representing ownership of the content and assigned to the creator, and metadata comprising the value;
- removing, by the blockchain peer, a first fractional value of the value representing ownership of the content assigned to the creator and assigning it to the first user based on the detected consumption of the instance and reducing the value representing the ownership of the content assigned to the creator based on the fractional value assigned to the first user;
- storing, by the blockchain peer, the first fractional value assigned to the first user and the reduced value assigned to the creator in metadata of the instance;
- detecting an additional consumption of the instance of the content by a second user that is downstream from the first user, and in response, remove a second fractional value from the reduced value assigned to the creator and assign it to the second user based on the additional consumption of the instance, and reduce the reduced value based on the second fractional value assigned to the second user;
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- storing, by the blockchain, the re reduced value assigned to the creator, the first fractional value assigned to the first user, and the second fractional value assigned to the second user, within metadata of the additionally consumed instance on the blockchain ledger.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.