Web based system and method providing a marketplace for creative digital content discovery and distribution for artists
OwnerKarl A. Talla Demgueuinventor
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Abstract
A Web based system and method providing a marketplace for creative digital content discovery and distribution for an artist. The invention provides a creative content discovery marketplace where an artist can provide an incentive for a listener to experience their creative content. The artist uploads their creative content to a creative content storage and specifies an incentive and one or more parameters for allocating the incentive to a listener. The listener is able to discover content based on the incentive and experience the content.
Claims14
A method of serving web pages providing a marketplace for discovering creative content of an artist, comprising:
- receiving an upload of a creative content via a content submission page hosted by a server of a creative content discovery service provider;
- receiving one or more artist specified identifying indicia for the creative content via the content submission page;
- storing the creative content on a content data store;
- receiving an incentive and one or more incentive parameters associated with the creative content via an incentive designation page hosted by server;
- storing the incentive in an incentive account associated with the artist and the creative content;
- providing a creative content search page accessible at the server, wherein the creative content is searchable by the identifying indicia and the incentive associated with the creative content.
A non-transitory computer-readable memory adapted for use by a digital content discovery service provider in serving web pages offering a marketplace for discovering digital content of a creating artist, the non-transitory computer-readable memory used to direct a server of the content discovery service provider to perform the steps of:
- receiving an upload of a creative content via a content submission page hosted by a server of a creative content discovery service provider;
- receiving one or more artist specified identifying indicia for the creative content via the content submission page;
- storing the creative content on a content data store;
- receiving an incentive and one or more incentive parameters associated with the creative content via an incentive designation page hosted by server;
- storing the incentive in an incentive account associated with the artist and the creative content;
- providing a creative content search page accessible at the server, wherein the creative content is searchable by the identifying indicia and the incentive associated with the creative content.
A non-transitory computer-readable memory adapted for use by a mobile computing device to access a site a digital content discovery service provider serving web pages offering a marketplace for discovering digital content of a creating artist, the non-transitory computer-readable memory used to direct the mobile computing device to perform the steps of:
- access a listener account hosted by the server;
- receiving a creative content from a creative content data store of the service provider;
- automatically sending a playback start time to the server upon initiating a playback of the creative content;
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- automatically sending a playback stop time to the server upon terminating a playback of the creative content, wherein the playback start time and the playback stop time are used to determine a playback duration, and the playback duration is used to determine an incentive increment for the playback of the creative content.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.