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US 2009/0024457 A1Published application
System and method for interactive contests
AssigneeOpusOne Corp.
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.
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A computer based contest method, comprising the steps of:
- receiving content works by content producers for representation in a contest;
- representing to voters more than one of the content works;
- and
- receiving votes from the voters for content works represented to the voters.
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A computer based contest method, comprising the steps of:
- receiving content works by content producers for representation in a contest;
- receiving expert review of more than one of the content works;
- representing to voters a set of content works based upon the expert review of more than one of the content works;
- and
- receiving votes from voters for content works represented to the voters.
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A computer based contest method, comprising the steps of:
- receiving content works by content producers for representation in a contest;
- receiving expert review of more than one of the content works;
- selecting a set of content works based upon the expert review of more than one of the content works;
- representing to voters the set of content works;
- and
- receiving votes from voters for content works represented to the voters.
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A contest system, comprising:
- a producer submission module for receiving content work from a producer;
- an expert review module for receiving expert review information of the content work;
- and
- a contest module for representing content work to a voter and to prompt the voter to vote for the content work.
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A contest system, comprising:
- a computer readable storage;
- expert information identifying experts, the expert information stored in the computer readable storage;
- voter information identifying voters, the voter information stored in the computer readable storage;
- a producer submission module, the producer submission module responsive to a request to submit a content work to serve a content submission page prompting a producer for content work, the content submission module responsive to content work received in response to the prompting to store in the computer readable storage the content work;
- an expert review module receiving expert review information of the content work, the expert review information stored in the computer readable storage;
- a filtering module responsive to a satisfaction of a filtering threshold to access stored expert review information and to select a set of top scoring content work, the filtering module adding each of the selected top scoring content work to a contest pool;
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- a contest module responsive to a satisfaction of a contest period threshold to serve to each of a set of voters identified by the voter information a contest page presenting a visual representation of a content work from the contest pool and to prompt each of the set of voters to vote for the visually represented content work.
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A computer based contest method, comprising the steps of:
- receiving first content data, the first content data representing a first content work;
- storing the first content data in a computer accessible data storage;
- receiving second content data, the second content data representing a second content work;
- storing the second content data in the computer accessible data storage;
- using the first and second content data to generate contest data that include a representation of the first and second content works;
- transmitting the contest data;
- generating vote request data representing a request to at least one user to cast a vote for the first content work or for the second content work;
- transmitting the vote request data;
- and
- receiving vote data, the vote data representing at least one vote for the first content work or for the second content work.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.