Direct payment system for web consumers
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsCarmine M. DiMascio, Benjamin L. Johnson, Ashok Kumar, Timothy P. Winkler
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Abstract
A method for distributing a plurality of funds to a plurality of content creators is provided. The method may include registering a content creator using a plurality of content creator identifying information when a user visits a content creator webpage. The method may also include receiving a plurality of user interaction data when the user visits the content creator webpage of a registered content creator. The method may further include generating an invoice based on the received plurality of user interaction data. The method may also include disbursing at least one payment to the registered content creator based on the generated invoice.
Claims1
A processor-implemented method for distributing a plurality of funds to a plurality of content creators, the method comprising:
- registering, by a processor, a content creator using a plurality of content creator identifying information when a user visits a content creator webpage;
- receiving a plurality of user interaction data when the user consumes a plurality of video content on the content creator webpage of the registered content creator, wherein the plurality of video content is selected from a group consisting of a total number of watched videos, a name of each watched video, a time length each video was watched by the user, and a total time spent watching a plurality of available videos on the content creator webpage;
- generating an invoice under a tip jar payment scheme based on the received plurality of user interaction data at a user preconfigured interval;
- updating at least one proposed funding figure on the generated invoice based on a plurality of manual user adjustments;
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- disbursing at least one payment to the registered content creator using the plurality of content creator identifying information based on the updated invoice.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.