System of distributing commissions within a relationship network
AssigneeMutual Tree Atividades De Internet Ltda.
InventorFabio Schenberg Frascino
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Abstract
A system for distributing commissions within a relationship network comprising a network manager, at least one network affiliate that has an affiliate relationship with the network manager, and at least one network member that has a member relationship with the network manager, wherein a transaction between a network affiliate and a network member generates a commission by the network affiliate, a first portion of the commission being retained by the network manager, a second portion of the commission being distributed to the transacting network member, and a third portion of the commission being distributed as a donation to at least one donation beneficiary that promotes environmental or social concerns that is external to the relationship network.
Claims28
A system for distributing commissions within a relationship network comprising:
- a) a network manager device;
- b) at least one network affiliate device that has an affiliate relationship with the network manager device;
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- c) a plurality of network member devices that each have a member relationship with the network manager device, the plurality of network member devices including at least one primary network member device and at least one additional network member device related to the at least one primary network member device through referral or invitation to the relationship network, wherein the at least one primary network member device and the at least one additional network member device form a lineal arrangement whereby each additional network member device that joins the relationship network becomes a lineal descendent of the referring network member device,
- d) wherein a transaction between a network affiliate device and a network member device defined as a transacting network member device generates a commission by the network affiliate device, a portion of the commission being distributed as a donation to at least one donation beneficiary device that promotes environmental or social concerns, and another portion of the commission being defined as a member commission and distributed to the transacting network member device and to each lineal descendent of the transacting network member device,
- wherein the lineal arrangement of referred network member devices are associated to each other and to the primary network member device by levels, with the primary network member device residing on level one (1) of the lineal arrangement and each additional referred member device residing on a level that is incremented relative to the level location of the network member device that referred the additional referred member device to the relationship network, and wherein the member commission (MC) is distributed in a proportionate amount to each network member device in a referral lineage between and including the transacting network member device defined as a purchasing network device and the primary network member device.
A method of distributing a commission within a relationship network comprising:
- a) providing a network manager device;
- b) the network manager device engaging in an affiliate relationship with at least one network affiliate device;
- c) the network manager device engaging in a member relationship with at least one network member device;
- d) the at least one network member device concluding a transaction with the at least one network affiliate device and defined as a transacting network member device;
- e) the at least one network affiliate device generating a commission to the network manager device based on a value of the transaction, a portion of the commission defined as a member commission and being distributed to the at least one network member device, and
- f) the network manager device distributing a donation generated from another portion of the commission to benefit at least one donation beneficiary device that promotes environmental or social causes,
- the method further comprising expanding the relationship network through the joining of additional network member devices by referral from a primary network member device to form a lineal arrangement of referred network member devices associated to each other and to the primary network member device by levels, with the primary network member device residing on, level one (1) of the lineal arrangement and each additional referred member device residing on a level that is incremented relative to the level location of the network member device that referred the additional referred member device to the relationship network, and wherein the member commission (MC) is distributed in a proportionate amount to each network member device in a referral lineage between and including the transacting network member device defined as a purchasing network member device and the primary network member device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.