Method and system for self-remuneration of published material
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorClifford Pickover
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Abstract
The present invention introduces the notion of a service bureau that efficiently and automatically helps publishers receive, track, and reward consumers for finding errors in published material such as books, manuals, multimedia presentations, and e-books. In particular, described is a system and method for receiving one or more errors associated with published material over a computer network from one or more consumer reviewers, and remunerating the consumer reviewers based on a quality of the errors. The quality of errors is related to such factors as the number of errors received and the quality of error received.
Claims21
A method comprising the steps of:
- receiving one or more errors associated with published material over a computer network from one or more consumer reviewers;
- and
- remunerating the consumer reviewers based on a quality of the errors.
A system for remunerating one or more customer reviewers, the system having one or more central processing units (CPUs), one or more memories, and one or more network connections, the system further comprising:
- a receiving process that receives one or more errors associated with published material over a computer network from one or more consumer reviewers;
- and
- a remunerating process that remunerates the consumer reviewers based on a quality of the errors.
A system comprising:
- means for receiving one or more errors associated with published material over a computer network from one or more consumer reviewers;
- and
- means for remunerating the consumer reviewers based on a quality of the errors.
A service method comprising the steps of:
- a service bureau receiving one or more errors associated with published material over a computer network from one or more consumer reviewers;
- and
- remunerating, by the service bureau, the consumer reviewers based on a quality of the errors.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.