Mycountry myworld social media rewards system
OwnerSamuel G. ZEAN, Eunice K. ZEANinventors
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Abstract
A system and method for providing awards and rewards to social media users for the content/posts they upload to their social media profiles is disclosed. The system uses a content management manager for creating, managing, and displaying a user timeline for each of the social media users, an ad insertion engine for creating, managing, and inserting ads into the user timeline for each of the social media users, an awards manager for awarding each of the social media users rewards in exchange for watching ads before viewing content, and a marketsquare manager for creating, managing, and displaying items for sale in an online marketplace in which each of the social media users may be buyers and seller.
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A system for providing a social media platform, and more specifically, a system for providing awards and rewards to social media users for the content/posts and items bought and sold, the system comprises:
- a content management manager for creating, managing, and displaying a user timeline for each of the social media users;
- an ad insertion engine for creating, managing, and inserting ads into the user timeline for each of the social media users;
- an awards manager for awarding each of the social media users rewards in exchange for watching ads before viewing content;
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- a marketsquare manager for creating, managing, and displaying items for sale in an online marketplace in which each of the social media users may be buyers and seller.
A method for providing awards and rewards to social media users for the content/posts they upload to their social media profiles, the method comprising:
- logging a user into an online platform, the platform comprising:
- a content management manager for creating, managing, and displaying a user timeline for each of the social media users;
- an ad insertion engine for creating, managing, and inserting ads into the user timeline for each of the social media users;
- an awards manager for awarding each of the social media users rewards in exchange for watching ads before viewing content;
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- a marketsquare manager for creating, managing, and displaying items for sale in an online marketplace in which each of the social media users may be buyers and seller.
- viewing the user timeline containing a sequence of posted content, comments, items for sale, and ads associated with each of the social media users, the user timeline includes content showcasing competitions;
- selecting a first posting from the user timeline for viewing;
- prompting the user to view an ad before viewing the first posting;
- when the user accepts the ad, the user is shown the ad before viewing the content in exchange for reward points;
- when the user declines the ad, the user is shown the content;
- when the user selects an item for sale from the user timeline, presenting an item page associated with the item for sale;
- awarding reward points to the user in response to content showcasing competition awards;
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- searching the platform for additional user timeline items for viewing.
A method for providing a system-generated dropdown menu, the system configured to communicatively interconnect a social media platform and one or more client devices, the method comprising:
- displaying a list of discount options to sellers to employ;
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- displaying said discount sale options in a social media marketplace to social media buyers on the seller's social media marketplace on the items sold.
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium in a system for providing social media platform, the system configured to communicatively interconnect a social media platform and one or more client devices, the non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing one or more programs which when executed by a network controller of the gateway device performs steps comprising:
- displaying a color-coded display alert and/or rating system that will enable a user's post/content that reaches certain prescribed milestones to change from one color to another on a social media platform;
- providing a social media platform rating system that alerts users of the tenure, duration and rating of milestones reaching in an amount of content views, likes, and shares on a social media platform after a user uploads a post;
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- sending notifications to users when transformation or changes in rating or color-coded status occurs to their posts.
A method for incentivizing by awarding or rewarding a social media user's social sharing on social media platform for the number of social sharing that the user made, the method comprising:
- enabling the social media user to accumulate a recorded number of shared posts or contents each time that the user shares a post/content;
- establishing an incentivize residual reward structure or system for social sharing, wherein after an initial social sharing is initiated by the social media user, all subsequent social sharing of the same post by other users accrue the recorded number of social sharing and genealogy from the last social sharers to subsequent sharers down to the original social sharer. Each user's recorded number of shares in the social media user's profile increases per shares;
- establishing an amount of shares posts and contents on the social media platform receive from the social sharing of the social media user's post by other users that can be awarded;
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- rewarding the social media user for the user's number of social sharing the social media user individually made and the social sharing of a social media user's post by other users.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.