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US 2017/0255976 A1Published application
Method for user initiated song selection of an ordered list on a computer network
OwnerRex Kudoinventor
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Abstract
A method for driving demand for downloading an ordered sequence of songs by requiring a minimum number of purchase/downloads for a currently available song of the ordered sequence of songs in order to make a next song of the sequence available to the buying public. Additionally, the rate and acceleration of purchases may be utilized to adjust the minimum number of required purchases.
Claims7
A method to drive demand to download an ordered song list on a computer network, comprising:
- offering for purchase and downloading an ordered sequence of songs with a plurality of songs on a computer network;
- offering a first song which is purchasable and downloadable utilizing a computer network;
- counting the total number of times a first song on the ordered sequence of songs has been purchased and downloaded a first song;
- offering a second song of the ordered sequence of songs for purchase and downloading after a minimum number of the first song have been downloaded;
- offering a next song on the ordered sequence of songs after a currently offered song has been purchased and downloaded a pre-set minimum number of times;
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- offering all songs on the ordered sequence of songs for purchase and downloading after all songs have been sequentially purchased and downloaded, each, its pre-set minimum number of times.
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A method to drive demand to download an ordered song list on a computer network, comprising:
- offering for purchase and downloading an ordered sequence of songs with a plurality of songs on a computer network;
- offering a first song which is purchasable and downloadable utilizing a computer network;
- counting the total number of times, a first song on the ordered sequence of songs has been purchased and downloaded a first song;
- assigning a time to each individual purchase/and download;
- computing a running calculation of the number of purchases per unit time, and designating this number as a purchase velocity;
- computing a running calculation of the number of purchases per unit time per unit time, and designating this number as a purchase acceleration;
- offering a second song of the ordered sequence of songs for purchase and downloading after a minimum number of the first song have been downloaded;
- adjusting the minimum number of times needed to advance to allowing the second song to download based on the purchase velocity and purchase acceleration of the first song;
- offering a next song on the ordered sequence of songs after a currently offered song has been purchased and downloaded a minimum number of times;
- adjusting the minimum number of times needed to advance to allowing the next song to download based on the purchase velocity and purchase acceleration of the currently available song in the ordered sequence of songs;
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- offering all songs on the ordered sequence of songs for purchase and downloading after all songs have been sequentially purchased and downloaded, each, its minimum number of times.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.