Methods and systems for a virtual marketplace or exchange for distributed signals
AssigneeCommerce Signals, Inc.
InventorsThomas Noyes, Christopher Brookfield
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Abstract
Methods and systems for providing an automated virtualized signal marketplace or exchange for signals from distributed data sources that are controlled by a multiplicity of signal sellers or signal owners. Signals are indicators of data that are derived from data sources and abstracted to protect the underlying data. Each entity that sells data in the virtual marketplace first converts data into a “signal” or indicator that represents the data without disclosing it or providing it. Signal sellers determine if they wants share signals based upon buyer, price, and other rules, including limitations on signal use. Signal buyers determine signal value based upon their objectives.
Claims51
A method for generating signals from distributed data sources controlled by a multiplicity of owners for selling in a signal marketplace, the method steps comprising:
- providing at least one signal from a first data source and at least one signal from a second data source;
- wherein the signals originate from different distributed data sources controlled by different owners and the signals are indexed in a centralized database and each of the signals is automatically assigned a value in the centralized database and associated with its corresponding indexed signal;
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- wherein the value is automatically generated by a remote server computer associated with the central database, based upon at least two factors associated with the value.
A system for providing a signals marketplace in a virtualized computer network for generating signals from distributed data sources controlled by a multiplicity of owners comprising:
- a remote server computer constructed and configured in network-based communication with a centralized database further comprising at least one index for signals data, and operable to automatically generate an assigned value corresponding to each unique signal in the indexed signals data;
- the indexed signals data being generated from receiving at least one signal from a first data source and at least one signal from a second data source, wherein the signals originate from different distributed data sources controlled by different owners;
- wherein each of the signals has a corresponding assigned value stored in the central database and associated with its indexed corresponding signal;
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- wherein each assigned value is based on at least two factors is dependent upon a signal source value and a signal destination value.
A method for creating and using a virtual marketplace for valuing and selling signals generated from distributed data sources that are controlled by a multiplicity of owners, the method steps comprising:
- providing at least one signal from a first data source and at least one signal from a second data source to a remote server computer for a signal marketplace or exchange;
- wherein the signals originate from different distributed data sources controlled by different owners and the signals are indexed and listed in a centralized database and each of the indexed signals is linked to corresponding relational databases;
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- wherein a value for each indexed signal is automatically generated by the remote server computer associated with the central database, based upon at least two factors associated with each value, the at least two factors selected from the group consisting of:
- predictive accuracy, fidelity, relevance to an objective, near-real-timeliness, frequency, recency, relationship of the source of the signal, reputation of the signal, reputation of the seller, affinity to a target, usefulness to an objective, and combinations thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.