System and method to manage streaming video content
OwnerJoshua Jensen, Christopher Hopperinventors
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Abstract
A system and method to provide streaming video content to a screen of a smart electronic device in non-viewable form until a user agrees to view the video in exchange for an incremental amount of currency, at which time the streaming video content becomes viewable in pre-determined increments of time pre-paid for by the user of the smart device by interacting with the screen. The user can determine through the screen how many increments of viewable streaming of video content are desired to be purchased and viewed by interacting with the screen in a pre-determined way each time the streaming video content becomes non-viewable.
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A system to monetize increments of streaming video content for selectively viewing desired increments of the streaming video content on an interactive screen of a smart electronic device, comprising:
- a user interface configured to be accessible by smart electronic devices through a network for viewing streaming video content and to receive an input through smart electronic devices accessing the user interface;
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- a server configured to provide a requested number of tokens in exchange for currency with users of each smart electronic device through the accessed user interface, to provide the streaming video content through the user interface in a non-viewable state including a message to notify a user to interact with the screen to repeal the non-viewable state, and to repeal the nonviewable state of the streaming video content, in response to an input entered at any desired time at the interactive screen, for each smart electronic device accessing the user interface, for an increment of time in exchange for a token purchased at the accessing smart electronic device, the repealing of the non-viewable state of the streaming video content for the increment of time being restarted each time the input is received by the user interface through the interactive screen of the corresponding accessing smart electronic device.
A method of monetizing increments of streaming video content for selectively viewing desired increments of the streaming video content on an interactive screen of a smart electronic device, the method comprising:
- generating a user interface configured to be accessible by a smart electronic device through a network for viewing streaming video content and to receive an input through a smart electronic device accessing the user interface;
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- streaming video content through the user interface in a non-viewable state including a message to notify a user to interact with the screen to repeal the non-viewable state;
- repealing the non-viewable state of the streaming video content at any desired time by the user of each smart electronic device accessing the user interface, for an increment of time in exchange for a token received from each smart electronic device accessing the user interface as a result of an input received at the user interface from the corresponding interactive screen.
A streaming video content control system, comprising:
- a user interface configured to be accessible by a smart electronic device through a network for selectively viewing desired increments of streaming video content and to receive an input at the user interface through an interactive screen at a smart electronic device accessing the user interface;
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- a server configured to generate a set of interface windows through the user interface to allow a user at a smart electronic device accessing the user interface to open an account with the streaming video content control system, to deposit currency in the opened account from a financial account of the user, to dedicate a number of tokens to the user based on the amount of deposited currency, to stream video content through the user interface in a non-viewable state including a message to notify the user to interact with the screen to repeal the non-viewable state, to deduct a token from the user's opened account each time the user interacts with the screen to repeal the non-viewable state, and to provide the requested increment of streaming video content in a viewable state to the smart electronic device in which the interaction has occurred.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.