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US 2007/0186230 A1Published application
System and method for interactive contests
AssigneeOpusOne Corp., dba MAKEASTAR.COM
InventorIman Foroutan
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Abstract
A system and method provide content review, distribution, ranking and access and automate creation and performance of contests among sets of content-based contestants. The system and method provide customizable interactive, ongoing, multi-level, multi-round contests with expert review of and filtered submission of content-based contestants. Among other advantages, providers may use the system and method to obtain expert and consumer review and ranking of their content.
Claims22
An interactive contest system, comprising:
- a computer readable storage,
- a microprocessor,
- a contest server module comprising instructions executable by the microprocessor,
- a first contest including first contest data stored in the computer readable storage, the first contest data representing first and second sets of works, the contest server module responsive to a first set of votes to identify a first selected work from the first set of works, the contest server module responsive to a second set of votes to identify a second selected work from the second set of works, the first and second sets of votes received within a predetermined time, and
- a second contest including second contest data stored in the computer readable storage, the second contest data representing a third set of works including the first selected work and the second selected work, the contest server module responsive to a third set of votes to identify one of the third set of works.
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A virtual expert review system and marketing machine, comprising:
- an expert review module, the expert review module accessible by an expert over a network, the expert selected based on expert information associated with the expert, the expert review module providing at least one selected work to the expert for expert review based on a correlation between work information associated with the work and expert information, the expert review module receiving an expert review of the selected work including at least one aspect score, and the expert review module associating the expert review with the selected work.
A contest server, the contest server comprising:
- a contest including at least two contest rounds of at least two contest rooms, each contest room including at least two content works, the contest server serving the contest to a voter, the contest server receiving at least one vote from the voter for at least one content work in at least one content round.
A contest system, comprising:
- a contest server, the contest server serving at least one contest;
- the contest comprising at least one round with at least one room with at least two content works therein;
- vote data representing one or more received votes for one or more works in at least one room of at least one contest round;
- and
- a selection algorithm responsive to the vote data to select at least one work from each room of each round of each contest.
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A contest, the contest comprising:
- a computer readable storage;
- contest data representing a first and a second contest round, a first and a second contest room for each contest round, and a first and a second content work for each contest room, the contest data stored on the computer readable storage;
- and
- vote data representing received votes sufficient to select at least one of the first and second content works for each contest room for each contest round.
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The contest of claim 16, further comprising:
- an expert review module;
- a third work submitted for a contest;
- a fourth work submitted for a contest, the expert review module selecting experts for each of the third and fourth works, the expert review module receiving expert review data including a first aspect score for the third work and a second aspect score for the fourth work;
- a contestant pool including data representing the third and fourth works;
- and
- a filter selecting the third work to be represented in a third contest round, the selection based on the first aspect scores, the filter removing the fourth work from the contestant pool after a predetermined time period without being selected for representation in any contest round.
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The contest of claim 17, further comprising:
- a set of genres, the third work categorized by a first one of the genres and one of the experts categorized by the first one of the genres, the selection of the expert to review the third work based on categorization by the first one of the genres.
A virtual expert review and contest marketing machine, comprising:
- producer submission means for content producers to submit content works for expert review;
- expert review means for obtaining expert review of submitted content works;
- filter means for filtering expert reviewed content works to select works to be represented in a contest;
- and,
- contest means for representing contestant works in multi-level contests, for receiving votes on the contestant works and for selecting a winning contestant work.
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A contest method, comprising:
- submitting first, second, third and fourth works for representation in a contest;
- automatically generating representations of first and second contests, the first contest representing the first and second works, and the second contest representing the third and fourth works, the first and second contests substantially of the same duration and substantially coterminous;
- receiving one or more votes for the first work in the first contest;
- receiving one or more votes for the third work in the second contest;
- automatically generating a third contest representing the first work and the third work;
- receiving one or more votes for the first work in the third contest;
- and
- automatically selecting the first work as a winning work.
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The contest method described in claim 20, further comprising:
- selecting the first, second, third and fourth works from a pool of at least five works at a time prior to the submitting of the first, second, third and fourth works for representation in a contest, the selecting based upon comparison of ranking information for each work in the pool.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.