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US 9,519,760 B2Granted
Barter for rights
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorAri Craine
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Abstract
Selling intangible property rights may include receiving content from a seller and determining one or more potential purchasers for the content's intangible property rights. The potential purchasers may be determined according to the subject of the content, the audience for the content, and the intangible property rights being sold. An offer to sell the intangible property rights may then be transmitted to one or more potential purchasers, along with a portion of the content. Upon receiving the one or more purchaser's acceptance of the offer, a complete copy of the content may be transmitted to the purchaser.
Claims20
A system, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a computer-readable medium comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations, for selling intangible property rights via Internet, comprising:
- receiving news-related image content from an entity that has access to the Internet and is (A) involved in gathering news and (B) desirous to sell intangible property rights (i) being associated with the image content, (ii) being owned by the entity, (iii) being offered for sale by the entity, and (iv) comprising non-exclusive rights that would grant a potential purchaser having access to the Internet a limited right to use the image content, the limited right being a limited number of copies;
- analyzing the image content to determine a description of the image content and a potential audience for the image content, wherein the description is determined based on pattern recognition, machine learning and embedded metadata from the image content and any written description received with the image content;
- formatting the image content for transmission to a potential purchaser, wherein the formatting includes compressing the image content;
- determining a plurality of potential purchasers having access to the Internet based on prior purchases, audience served, geographic regions served, news subjects reported, and type of news media published;
- identifying, among the plurality of potential purchasers, a particular potential purchaser for the intangible property rights, based on each of multiple factors comprising (a) a description of the image content received, (b) an audience for the image content received, wherein the audience is determined by applying the description and the embedded metadata to a list of potential audiences, (c) intangible property rights being sold by the entity, and (d) a price for the intangible property rights, wherein the price is calculated based on a cost to acquire a comparable item of content, a market value for a similar item of content, and a price agreed to in a previous negotiation;
- transmitting, to a computing device of the particular potential purchaser for the intangible property rights, an encrypted copy of the image content, an obscured version of the image content, and an offer to purchase a non-exclusive, limited right to use the image content;
- and
- receiving, from the computing device of the particular potential purchaser, an acceptance of the offer.
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A computer-readable storage device comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations, for selling intangible property rights via Internet, comprising:
- receiving news-related image content from an entity that has access to the Internet and is (A) involved in gathering news and (B) desirous to sell intangible property rights (i) being associated with the image content, (ii) being owned by the entity, (iii) being offered for sale by the entity, and (iv) comprising non-exclusive rights that would grant a potential purchaser having access to the Internet a limited right to use the image content, the limited right being a limited number of copies;
- analyzing the image content to determine a description of the image content and a potential audience for the image content, wherein the description is determined based on pattern recognition, machine learning and embedded metadata from the image content and any written description received with the image content;
- formatting the image content for transmission to a potential purchaser, wherein the formatting includes watermarking, obscuring and compressing the image content;
- determining a plurality of potential purchasers having access to the Internet based on prior purchases, audience served, geographic regions served, news subjects reported, and type of news media published;
- identifying, among the plurality of potential purchasers, a particular potential purchaser for the intangible property rights, based on each of multiple factors comprising (a) the description of the image content received, (b) an audience for the image content received, wherein the audience is determined by applying the description and the embedded metadata to a list of potential audiences, (c) intangible property rights being sold by the entity, and (d) a price for the intangible property rights, wherein the price is calculated based on a cost to acquire a comparable item of content, a market value for a similar item of content and a price agreed to in a previous negotiation;
- transmitting, to a computing device of the particular potential purchaser for the intangible property rights, a visibly watermarked and obscured copy of the image content and an offer to purchase a non-exclusive, limited right to use the image content;
- and
- receiving from the computing device of the particular potential purchaser a counteroffer to the offer.
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A method, for selling intangible property rights via Internet, comprising:
- receiving, by a system having a processor, news-related image content from an entity that is (A) involved in gathering news and (B) desirous to sell intangible property rights (i) being associated with the image content, (ii) being owned by the entity, (iii) being offered for sale by the entity, and (iv) comprising non-exclusive rights that would grant a potential purchaser having access to the Internet a limited right to use the received content, the limited right being a limited number of copies;
- analyzing, by the system, the image content to determine a description of the image content and a potential audience for the image content, wherein the description is determined based on pattern recognition, machine learning and embedded metadata from the image content and any written description received with the image content;
- formatting, by the system, the image content for transmission to a potential purchaser, wherein the formatting includes compressing the image content;
- determining, by the system, one or more potential purchasers based on prior purchases, audience served, geographic regions served, news subjects reported, and type of news media published;
- identifying, by the system, a particular potential purchaser from the one or more potential purchasers for the intangible property rights based on each of multiple factors comprising (a) the description of the image content received, (b) an audience for the image content received, wherein the audience is determined by applying the description and the embedded metadata to a list of potential audiences, (c) intangible property rights being sold by the entity, and (d) a price for the intangible property rights, wherein the price is calculated based on a cost to acquire a comparable item of content, a market value for a similar item of content and a price agreed to in a previous negotiation;
- transmitting, to a computing device of the particular potential purchaser for the intangible property rights, an offer to purchase a non-exclusive, limited right to use the image content an obscured version of the image content, and an encrypted copy of the image content;
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- responsive to receiving a payment for the intangible property rights, transmitting an encryption key for decrypting the encrypted copy to the computing device of the particular potential purchaser.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.