U.S. patent application number 13/854145 was filed with the patent office on 2013-07-18 for amplification of a social object through automatic republishing of the social object on curated content pages based on relevancy.
The applicant listed for this patent is Xavier Damman, Burt Herman. Invention is credited to Xavier Damman, Burt Herman.
Application Number | 20130185143 13/854145 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 48281666 |
Filed Date | 2013-07-18 |
United States Patent
Application |
20130185143 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Damman; Xavier ; et
al. |
July 18, 2013 |
AMPLIFICATION OF A SOCIAL OBJECT THROUGH AUTOMATIC REPUBLISHING OF
THE SOCIAL OBJECT ON CURATED CONTENT PAGES BASED ON RELEVANCY
Abstract
A method, an apparatus and/or a system of amplification of a
social object through automatic republishing of the social object
on curated content pages based on relevancy is disclosed. A curated
content system involves associating a social media account of a
user of a third-party service to the curated content system based
on an authentication of the social media account through the
curated content system. The curated content system may also involve
determining that a social object placed in the third-party service
is associated with a page in the curated content system based on a
relevancy match between an identification data associated with the
social object with at least a portion of a content of the page.
Further, the curated content system involves automatically
republishing the social object adjacent to at least the portion of
the content of the page using a processor to amplify an influence
of the social object.
Inventors: |
Damman; Xavier; (San
Francisco, CA) ; Herman; Burt; (San Francisco,
CA) |
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Applicant: |
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Damman; Xavier
Herman; Burt |
San Francisco
San Francisco |
CA
CA |
US
US |
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Family ID: |
48281666 |
Appl. No.: |
13/854145 |
Filed: |
April 1, 2013 |
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Current U.S.
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705/14.41 ;
705/39; 715/234 |
Current CPC
Class: |
H04N 21/2541 20130101;
G06Q 50/01 20130101; G06F 40/14 20200101; H04N 21/8352 20130101;
G06Q 10/00 20130101; G06F 16/907 20190101; G06F 16/955
20190101 |
Class at
Publication: |
705/14.41 ;
705/39; 715/234 |
International
Class: |
G06F 17/22 20060101
G06F017/22 |
Claims
1. A method of a curated content system comprising: associating a
social media account of a user of a third-party service to the
curated content system based on an authentication of the social
media account through the curated content system; determining that
a social object placed in the third-party service is associated
with a page in the curated content system based on a relevancy
match between an identification data associated with the social
object and a portion of a content of the page; and automatically
republishing the social object adjacent to the portion of the
content of the page using a processor to amplify an influence of
the social object.
2. The method of claim 1: wherein the page in the curated content
system is created by a different user of the curated content system
through at least one of a clipping action and a reposting action of
a number of other social objects arranged in the page.
3. The method of claim 2, further comprising: automatically
calculating an estimated branding value based on the republishing
of the social object adjacent to the portion of the content of the
page; measuring an interaction with the social object adjacent to
the portion of the content of the page; and debiting a financial
account associated with the user of the third-party service based
on the interaction.
4. The method of claim 3: wherein the interaction is at least one
of a click-through action on the social object in the page of the
curated content system, a "like" action on the social object in the
page of the curated content system, the reposting action applied to
the social object in the page of the curated content system, and a
commenting action as associated with the social object in the
curated content system.
5. The method of claim 1, further comprising: promoting the social
object in a number of pages of the curated content system based on
a budget of the user of the third-party service, wherein the number
of pages in which the social object is republished is proportional
to the budget of the user of the third-party service; and
automatically amplifying the influence of the social object through
the promoting of the social object in the number of pages of the
curated content system.
6. The method of claim 1: wherein the social object is at least one
of: a news item of a commercial enterprise seeking to create an
awareness around a brand of the commercial enterprise, a viewpoint
commentary item expressed by an individual promoter, wherein the
individual promoter is an advocate of a viewpoint comprising a
political viewpoint, a social viewpoint, a community viewpoint, and
a personal viewpoint, and a social commentary item expressed by at
least one of the commercial enterprise and the individual promoter
seeking to create an awareness around the brand of at least one of
the commercial enterprise and the individual promoter.
7. The method of claim 1, further comprising: generating an
identification meta-data to be associated with an original content
of a first publisher that originates in a third-party source server
of a public wide area network such that the original content is
attributable to the first publisher through the identification
meta-data associated with the original content when the original
content having the identification meta-data is republished on the
page along with a number of other republished data assets in a
curated form on the page by a subsequent publisher, and wherein the
page is a scrapbook page; determining that a subsequent publishing
of the original content is an embedded portion of an other work of
authorship when a communication of the identification meta-data is
extracted from a server in which the subsequent publishing is
manifested and transmitted from the server to the processor;
automatically generating the communication having at least one of
an identity data of the subsequent publisher and a temporal data
associated with the subsequent publishing that is transmitted to
the first publisher of the original content when the other work of
authorship is published with the embedded portion having the
original content; and providing a financial incentive to the first
publisher proportional to at least one of an aggregate number of
views, a unique visitor count, a bounce rate, a social sharing
rate, and a commenting rate, associated with the subsequent
publishing of the original content in the other work of authorship,
wherein the other work of authorship is a separately copyrightable
work of authorship comprising an other original content in addition
to a leveraged and attributed content from a number of disparate
media sources, wherein the third-party source server of the public
wide area network is a social network-based publication system that
is monitored by the subsequent publisher through a leveraged
content server in which the other work of authorship is compiled
prior to being published, wherein the leveraged content server
automatically formats the other work of authorship to be optimally
displayed in a plurality of multimedia types including at least one
of a print, a video, a type that is able to be displayed on a
tablet, a number of types that are able to display an online news,
and a blog, wherein each embedded instance of the original content
of the first publisher in a number of other works of authorship is
interactive directly through a location where the other work of
authorship is published in a manner in which the click-through
action on the embedded portion of the other work of authorship
transports a navigation pane presently comprising a republishing of
the original content to the social network-based publication system
in which the original content is first published by the first
publisher, wherein the leveraged content server automatically
determines the original content to be trusted in the public wide
area network based on a republishing history associated with the
original content contributed by a number of first publishers, and
which algorithmically presents a preferred content to a number of
subsequent publishers based on a criteria including a popularity of
the republishing of the original content and a credibility scoring
of the first publisher and a number of other publishers that is
determined based on an algorithmic page rank of a number of
republished destinations and a number of originated sources of the
original content, and wherein the determination based on the
algorithmic page rank of the number of republished destinations and
the number of originated sources of the original content also
considers a rating score assessed to the original content and the
number of first publishers by the number of subsequent publishers
who provide this rating score of the original content and the
number of first publishers in the leveraged content server such
that an other subsequent publisher has an access privilege to a
number of access ratings and a number of associated comments
provided by a peer subsequent publisher.
8. A curated content system comprising: a linking module to
associate a social media account of a user of a third-party service
to the curated content system based on an authentication of the
social media account through the curated content system; a tracking
module configured to determine that a social object placed in the
third-party service is associated with a page in the curated
content system based on a relevancy match between an identification
data associated with the social object and a portion of a content
of the page; and a republishing module configured to automatically
republish the social object adjacent to the portion of the content
of the page using a processor.
9. The curated content system of claim 8: wherein the page in the
curated content system is created by a different user of the
curated content system through at least one of a clipping action
and a reposting action of a number of other social objects arranged
in the page.
10. The curated content system of claim 9, further comprising: a
budget advertising module to automatically calculate an estimated
branding value based on the republishing of the social object
adjacent to the portion of the content of the page; an interaction
module to automatically measure an interaction with the social
object adjacent to the portion of the content of the page; and a
finance module to debit a financial account associated with the
user of the third-party service based on the interaction.
11. The curated content system of claim 10: wherein the interaction
is at least one of a click-through action on the social object in
the page of the curated content system, a "like" action on the
social object in the page of the curated content system, the
reposting action applied to the social object in the page of the
curated content system, and a commenting action associated with the
social object in the curated content system.
12. The curated content system of claim 11, further comprising: a
promotion module to promote the social object in a number of pages
of the curated content system based on a budget of the user of the
third-party service, wherein the number of pages in which the
social object is republished is proportional to the budget of the
user of the third-party service.
13. The curated content system of claim 12: wherein the social
object is at least one of: a news item of a commercial enterprise
seeking to create an awareness around a brand of the commercial
enterprise, a viewpoint commentary item expressed by an individual
promoter, wherein the individual promoter is an advocate of a
viewpoint comprising a political viewpoint, a social viewpoint, a
community viewpoint, and a personal viewpoint, and a social
commentary item expressed by at least one of the commercial
enterprise and the individual promoter seeking to create an
awareness around the brand of at least one of the commercial
enterprise and the individual promoter.
14. The curated content system of claim 12: wherein the tracking
module to also generate an identification meta-data to be
associated with an original content of a first publisher that
originates in a third-party source server of a public wide area
network such that the original content is attributable to the first
publisher through the identification meta-data associated with the
original content when the original content having the
identification meta-data is republished on a scrapbook page along
with a number of other republished data assets in a curated form on
the scrapbook page by a subsequent publisher.
15. The curated content system of claim 14, further comprising: a
processor communicatively coupled with a non-transitory memory
which is configured to determine that a subsequent publishing of
the original content is an embedded portion of an other work of
authorship when a communication of the identification meta-data is
extracted from a server in which the subsequent publishing is
manifested and transmitted from the server to the processor; a
notification module to automatically generate the communication
having at least one of an identity data of the subsequent publisher
and a temporal data associated with the subsequent publishing that
is transmitted to the first publisher of the original content when
the other work of authorship is published with the embedded portion
having the original content; and a transaction module to provide a
financial incentive to the first publisher proportional to at least
one of an aggregate number of views, a unique visitor count, a
bounce rate, a social sharing rate, and a commenting rate,
associated with the subsequent publishing of the original content
in the other work of authorship; wherein the other work of
authorship is a separately copyrightable work of authorship
comprising an other original content in addition to a leveraged and
attributed content from a number of disparate media sources,
wherein the third-party source server of the public wide area
network is a social network-based publication system that is
monitored by the subsequent publisher through a leveraged content
server in which the other work of authorship is compiled prior to
being published, wherein the leveraged content server automatically
formats the other work of authorship to be optimally displayed in a
plurality of multimedia types including a print, a video, a type
that is able to be displayed on a tablet, a number of types that
are able to display an online news, and a blog, wherein each
embedded instance of the original content of the first publisher in
a number of other works of authorship is interactive directly
through a location where the other work of authorship is published
in a manner in which the click-through action on the embedded
portion of the other work of authorship transports a navigation
pane presently comprising a republishing of the original content to
the social network-based publication system in which the original
content is first published by the first publisher, wherein the
leveraged content server automatically determines the original
content to be trusted in the public wide area network based on a
republishing history associated with the original content
contributed by a number of first publishers, and which
algorithmically presents a preferred content to a number of
subsequent publishers based on a criteria including a popularity of
the republishing of the original content and a credibility scoring
of the first publisher and a number of other publishers that is
determined based on an algorithmic page rank of a number of
republished destinations and a number of originated sources of the
original content, and wherein the determination based on the
algorithmic page rank of the number of republished destinations and
the number of originated sources of the original content also
considers a rating score assessed to the original content and the
number of first publishers by the number of subsequent publishers
who provide this rating score of the original content and the
number of first publishers in the leveraged content server such
that an other subsequent publisher has an access privilege to a
number of access ratings and a number of associated comments
provided by a peer subsequent publisher.
16. A method of a curated content system comprising: associating a
social media account of a user of a third-party service to the
curated content system based on an authentication of the social
media account through the curated content system; determining that
a social object placed in the third-party service is associated
with a page in the curated content system based on a relevancy
match between an identification data associated with the social
object and a portion of a content of the page; and promoting the
social object in a number of pages of the curated content system
based on a budget of the user of the third-party service, wherein
the number of pages in which the social object is republished is
proportional to the budget of the user of the third-party
service.
17. The method of claim 16: wherein the page in the curated content
system is created by a different user of the curated content system
through at least one of a clipping action and a reposting action of
a number of other social objects arranged in the page.
18. The method of claim 17, further comprising: automatically
calculating an estimated branding value based on a republishing of
the social object adjacent to the portion of the content of the
page; measuring an interaction with the social object adjacent to
the portion of the content of the page; and debiting a financial
account associated with the user of the third-party service based
on the interaction.
19. The method of claim 18, further comprising: automatically
amplifying an influence of the social object through the promoting
of the social object in the number of pages of the curated content
system; and automatically republishing the social object adjacent
to the portion of the content of the page using a processor,
wherein the interaction is at least one of a click-through action
on the social object in the page of the curated content system, a
"like" action on the social object in the page of the curated
content system, the reposting action applied to the social object
in the page of the curated content system, and a commenting action
as associated with the social object in the curated content system,
and wherein the social object is at least one of: a news item of a
commercial enterprise seeking to create an awareness around a brand
of the commercial enterprise, a viewpoint commentary item expressed
by an individual promoter, wherein the individual promoter is an
advocate of a viewpoint comprising a political viewpoint, a social
viewpoint, a community viewpoint, and a personal viewpoint, and a
social commentary item expressed by at least one of the commercial
enterprise and the individual promoter seeking to create an
awareness around the brand of at least one of the commercial
enterprise and the individual promoter.
20. The method of claim 16, further comprising: generating an
identification meta-data to be associated with an original content
of a first publisher that originates in a third-party source server
of a public wide area network such that the original content is
attributable to the first publisher through the identification
meta-data associated with the original content when the original
content having the identification meta-data is republished on the
page along with a number of other republished data assets in a
curated form on the page by a subsequent publisher, and wherein the
page is a scrapbook page; determining that a subsequent publishing
of the original content is an embedded portion of an other work of
authorship when a communication of the identification meta-data is
extracted from a server in which the subsequent publishing is
manifested and transmitted from the server to the processor;
automatically generating the communication having at least one of
an identity data of the subsequent publisher and a temporal data
associated with the subsequent publishing that is transmitted to
the first publisher of the original content when the other work of
authorship is published with the embedded portion having the
original content; and providing a financial incentive to the first
publisher proportional to at least one of an aggregate number of
views, a unique visitor count, a bounce rate, a social sharing
rate, and a commenting rate, associated with the subsequent
publishing of the original content in the other work of authorship,
wherein the other work of authorship is a separately copyrightable
work of authorship comprising an other original content in addition
to a leveraged and attributed content from a number of disparate
media sources, wherein the third-party source server of the public
wide area network is a social network-based publication system that
is monitored by the subsequent publisher through a leveraged
content server in which the other work of authorship is compiled
prior to being published, wherein the leveraged content server
automatically formats the other work of authorship to be optimally
displayed in a plurality of multimedia types including a print, a
video, a type that is able to be displayed on a tablet, a number of
types that are able to display an online news, and a blog, wherein
each embedded instance of the original content of the first
publisher in a number of other works of authorship is interactive
directly through a location where the other work of authorship is
published in a manner in which the click-through action on the
embedded portion of the other work of authorship transports a
navigation pane presently comprising a republishing of the original
content to the social network-based publication system in which the
original content is first published by the first publisher, wherein
the leveraged content server automatically determines the original
content to be trusted in the public wide area network based on a
republishing history associated with the original content
contributed by a number of first publishers, and which
algorithmically presents a preferred content to a number of
subsequent publishers based on a criteria including a popularity of
the republishing of the original content and a credibility scoring
of the first publisher and a number of other publishers that is
determined based on an algorithmic page rank of a number of
republished destinations and a number of originated sources of the
original content, and wherein the determination based on the
algorithmic page rank of the number of republished destinations and
the number of originated sources of the original content also
considers a rating score assessed to the original content and the
number of first publishers by the number of subsequent publishers
who provide this rating score of the original content and the
number of first publishers in the leveraged content server such
that an other subsequent publisher has an access privilege to a
number of access ratings and a number of associated comments
provided by a peer subsequent publisher.
Description
CLAIM OF PRIORITY
[0001] This is an accelerated examination application and claims
priority from, and incorporates by reference in its entirety;
copending U.S. Continuation application Ser. No. 13/462,663 filed
on May 2, 2012, which claimed priority on previously copending
United States Continuation application Ser. No. 13/296,525 filed on
Dec. 1, 2011, which further claimed priority on previously
copending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/156,368 filed on Jun.
9, 2011, which is now issued U.S. Pat. No. 8,082,486 B1 titled
"SOURCE ATTRIBUTION OF EMBEDDED CONTENT."
FIELD OF TECHNOLOGY
[0002] This application relates generally to the use of a web-based
technology to turn an online communication into an interactive
dialogue around curated pages serving as virtual scrapbook pages,
such as in a social media environment, and in one exemplary
embodiment, to the amplification of a social object through
automatic republishing of the social object on curated content
pages based on relevancy.
BACKGROUND
[0003] Attracting, building, and maintaining an audience (e.g.,
customers, voters, constituents, stakeholders) in a connected world
may mean that an organization (e.g., a business, a fundraising
committee of a politician, a school, etc.) may need to actively
engage their core audience through social media channels on a
frequent basis. As such, the organization may create a
Twitter.RTM., Facebook.RTM., Instagram.RTM., and/or Storify.RTM.
account to engage with their audience and discuss topics relevant
to both the organization and to interests of the audience
generally. For example, the organization may sometimes send a
message through the social media channels about a recent news event
that might be followed by the audience.
[0004] Sometimes, the message may be republished through a
particular social media channel based on a hash tag match and/or a
real time syndication service. However, the message may not be
intelligently displayed in locations where the message may have
resonance with an interest level attribute based on contextual
relevancy to a social media page having user curated content. As
such, the organization may need to spend extensively on figuring
out which keywords to bid on, designing advertisements, determining
geo-fenced boundaries, etc. to reach a significant portion of the
audience it desires to communicate with. The overhead required to
manage paid search spending by the organization may be
unsustainable and therefore a large market segment of the audience
may remain untapped.
SUMMARY
[0005] Disclosed is a method, system, and apparatus of a web-based
technology to turn an online communication into an interactive
dialogue around curated pages serving as virtual scrapbook pages,
such as in a social media environment, and in one exemplary
embodiment, to the creation, distribution, and publication of
sharable scrapbook pages through source attribution of embedded
content.
[0006] In one aspect, a method of a curated content system involves
associating a social media account of a user of a third-party
service to the curated content system based on an authentication of
the social media account through the curated content system.
Further, the method of the curated content system involves
determining that a social object placed in the third-party service
is associated with a page in the curated content system based on a
relevancy match between an identification data associated with the
social object with at least a portion of a content of the page. The
method of the curated content system also involves automatically
republishing the social object adjacent to at least the portion of
the content of the page using a processor to amplify an influence
of the social object.
[0007] The page associated with the curated content system may be
created by a different user of the curated content system through a
clipping action and/or a reposting action of various other social
objects arranged in the page.
[0008] The method of the curated content system may involve
automatically calculating an estimated branding value based on the
republishing of the social object adjacent to at least the portion
of the content of the page. Further, the method of the curated
content system may involve measuring an interaction with the social
object adjacent to at least the portion of the content of the page.
The method of the curated content system may also involve debiting
a financial account associated with the user of the third-party
service based on the interaction.
[0009] The interaction may be a click-through action on the social
object in the page of the curated content system, a "like" action
on the social object in the page of the curated content system, the
reposting action applied to the social object in the page of the
curated content system, and/or a commenting action associated with
the with the social object in the curated content system.
[0010] The method of the curated content system may involve
promoting the social object in various pages of the curated content
system based on a budget of the user of the third party system,
wherein a number of pages in which the social object is republished
is proportional to the budget of the user of the third party
system. Further, the method of the curated content system may
involve automatically amplifying the social object through the
promotion of the social object in various pages of the curated
content system.
[0011] The social object may be a news item of a commercial
enterprise seeking to create an awareness around a brand of the
commercial enterprise; a viewpoint commentary item expressed by an
individual promoter wherein the individual promoter is an advocate
of a viewpoint comprising a political viewpoint, a social
viewpoint, a community viewpoint, and/or a personal viewpoint;
and/or a social commentary item expressed by the commercial
enterprise and/or the individual promoter seeking to create an
awareness around the brand of the commercial enterprise and/or the
individual promoter.
[0012] In one aspect, the method of the curated content system may
involve generating an identification meta-data to be associated
with an original content of a first publisher that originates in a
third-party source server of a public wide area network such that
the original content may be attributable to the first publisher
through the identification meta-data associated thereto with the
original content when the original content having the associated
identification meta-data is republished on the page along with
other republished data assets in a curated form on the page by a
subsequent publisher, and wherein the page is a scrapbook page.
Further, the method of the curated content system may involve
determining that a subsequent publishing of the original content is
an embedded portion of an other work of authorship when a
communication of the identification meta-data is extracted from a
server in which the subsequent publishing is manifested and
transmitted from the server to the processor. The method of the
curated content system may also involve automatically generating a
communication having an identity data of a subsequent publisher
and/or a temporal data associated with the subsequent publishing
that is transmitted to the first publisher of the original content
when the other work of authorship is published with the embedded
portion having the original content.
[0013] The method of the curated content system may involve
providing a financial incentive to the first publisher proportional
to an aggregate number of views, a unique visitor count, a bounce
rate, a social sharing rate, and/or a commenting rate, associated
with subsequent publishing of the original content in the other
work of authorship. The other work of authorship may be a
separately copyrightable work of authorship comprising its own
content in addition to leveraged and attributed content from
disparate media sources.
[0014] The third-party source of the public wide area network may
be a social network-based publication system (e.g. a short
messaging system, Instagram.RTM., Facebook.RTM., Pinterest.RTM., a
blog, and an other media creation platform) that is monitored by
the subsequent publisher through a leveraged content server in
which the other work of authorship is compiled prior to publishing.
The leveraged content server may automatically format the other
work of authorship to be optimally displayed in a plurality of
multimedia types including print, video, a type that is able to be
displayed on a tablet, and/or types that are able to display online
news, and/or a blog.
[0015] Each embedded instance of the original content of the first
publisher in the other work of authorship may be interactive
directly through a location where the other work of authorship is
published in a manner in which a click-through on the embedded
portion of the other work of authorship may transport a navigation
pane presently comprising a particular republishing of the original
content to the social network-based publication system in which the
original content is first published by the first publisher.
[0016] The leveraged content server may automatically determine
which original content is trusted in the public wide area network
based on republishing history associated with the original content
contributions of the first publisher and other first publishers,
and which may algorithmically present preferred content to
subsequent publishers based on a criteria including a popularity of
republishing of the original content and a credibility scoring of
the first publisher and other publishers that is determined based
on an algorithmic page rank of republished destinations and
originated sources of the original content. The determination based
on the algorithmic page rank of the republished destinations and
originated sources of the original content may also consider a
rating score assessed to original content and first publishers in
the leveraged content server such that all subsequent publishers
may have access privileges to access ratings and associated
comments provided by peer subsequent publishers.
[0017] In another aspect, the curated content system includes a
linking module to associate a social media account of a user of a
third-party service to the curated content system based on an
authentication of the social media account through the curated
content system. Further, the curated content system includes a
tracking module configured to determine that a social object placed
in the third-party service is associated with a page in the curated
content system based on a relevancy match between an identification
data associated with the social object with at least a portion of a
content of the page. The curated content system also includes a
republishing module configured to automatically republish the
social object adjacent to at least the portion of the content of
the page using a processor.
[0018] The page associated with the curated content system
associated may be created by a different user of the curated
content system through at least one of a clipping action and a
reposting action of various other social objects arranged in the
page.
[0019] The curated content system may include a budget-advertising
module to automatically calculating an estimated branding value
based on the republishing of the social object adjacent to at least
the portion of the content of the page. Further, the curated
content system may include an interaction module to automatically
measure an interaction with the social object adjacent to at least
the portion of the content of the page. The curated content system
may also include a finance module to debit a financial account
associated with the user of the third-party service based on the
interaction.
[0020] The interaction may be a click-through action on the social
object in the page of the curated content system, a "like" action
on the social object in the page of the curated content system, the
reposting action applied to the social object in the page of the
curated content system, and/or a commenting action associated with
the social object in the curated content system.
[0021] The curated content system may include a promotion module to
promote the social object in various pages of the curated content
system based on a budget of the user of the third party system,
wherein a number of pages in which the social object is republished
is proportion to the budget of the user of the third party
system.
[0022] The social object may be a news item of a commercial
enterprise seeking to create an awareness around a brand of the
commercial enterprise; a viewpoint commentary item expressed by an
individual promoter, wherein the individual promoter is an advocate
of a viewpoint comprising a political viewpoint, a social
viewpoint, a community viewpoint, and/or a personal viewpoint;
and/or a social commentary item expressed by the commercial
enterprise and/or the individual promoter seeking to create an
awareness around the brand the commercial enterprise and/or the
individual promoter.
[0023] The curated content system may include the tracking module
to also generate an identification meta-data to be associated with
an original content of a first publisher that originates in a
third-party source server of a public wide area network such that
the original content may be attributable to the first publisher
through the identification meta-data associated thereto with the
original content when the original content having the associated
identification meta-data is republished on a scrapbook page along
with other republished data assets in a curated form on the
scrapbook page by a subsequent publisher.
[0024] The curated content system may include a processor
communicatively coupled with a non-transitory memory which may be
configured to determine that a subsequent publishing of the
original content is an embedded portion of the other work of
authorship when a communication of the identification meta-data is
extracted from a server in which the subsequent publishing is
manifested and transmitted from the server to the processor.
Further, the curated content system may include a notification
module to automatically generate a communication having an identity
data of a subsequent publisher and/or a temporal data associated
with the subsequent publishing that may be transmitted to the first
publisher of the original content when the other work of authorship
is published with the embedded portion having the original
content.
[0025] The curated content system may include a transaction module
to provide a financial incentive to the first publisher
proportional to an aggregate number of views, a unique visitor
count, a bounce rate, a social sharing rate, and/or a commenting
rate, associated with subsequent publishing of the original content
in the other work of authorship. The other work of authorship may
be a separately copyrightable work of authorship comprising its own
content in addition to leveraged and attributed content from
disparate media sources.
[0026] The third-party source of the public wide area network may
be the social network-based publication system that may be
monitored by the subsequent publisher through a leveraged content
server in which the other work of authorship may be compiled prior
to publishing. The leveraged content server may automatically
format the other work of authorship to be optimally displayed in a
plurality of multimedia types including print, video, a type that
is able to be displayed on a tablet, and/or types that are able to
display online news, and/or a blog.
[0027] Each embedded instance of the original content of the first
publisher in the other works of authorship may be interactive
directly through a location where the other work of authorship is
published in a manner in which a click-through on the embedded
portion of the other work of authorship may transport a navigation
pane presently comprising a particular republishing of the original
content to the social network-based publication system in which the
original content is first published by the first publisher.
[0028] The leveraged content server may automatically determine
which original content is trusted in the public wide area network
based on republishing history associated with the original content
contributions of the first publisher and other first publishers,
and which may algorithmically present preferred content to
subsequent publishers based on a criteria including a popularity of
republishing of the original content and a credibility scoring of
the first publisher and other publishers that may be determined
based on an algorithmic page rank of republished destinations and
originated sources of the original content. The determination based
on the algorithmic page rank of republished destinations and
originated sources of the original content also may consider a
rating score assessed to original content and first publishers by
subsequent publishers who provide this rating score of original
content and first publishers in the leveraged content server such
that all subsequent publishers may have access privileges to access
ratings and associated comments provided by peer subsequent
publishers.
[0029] In yet another aspect, a method of a curated content system
involves associating a social media account of a user of a
third-party service to the curated content system based on an
authentication of the social media account through the curated
content system. Further, the method of the curated content system
also involves determining that a social object placed in the
third-party service is associated with a page in the curated
content system based on a relevancy match between an identification
data associated with the social object with at least a portion of a
content of the page. The method of the curated content system also
involves promoting the social object in various pages of the
curated content system based on a budget of the user of the third
party system, wherein a number of pages in which the social object
is republished is proportion to the budget of the user of the third
party system.
[0030] The page associated with the curated content system may be
created by a different user of the curated content system through a
clipping action and/or a reposting action of various other social
objects arranged in the page.
[0031] The method of the curated content system may involve
automatically calculating an estimated branding value based on a
republishing of the social object adjacent to at least the portion
of the content of the page. Further, the method of the curated
content system may involve measuring an interaction with the social
object adjacent to at least the portion of the content of the page.
The method of the curated content system may also involve debiting
a financial account associated with the user of the third-party
service based on the interaction.
[0032] The method of the curated content system may involve
automatically amplifying the social object through the promotion of
the social object in various pages of the curated content system.
The method of the curated content system may also involve
automatically republishing the social object adjacent to at least
the portion of the content of the page using a processor. The
interaction may be a click-through action on the social object in
the page of the curated content system, a "like" action on the
social object in the page of the curated content system, the
reposting action applied to the social object in the page of the
curated content system, and/or a commenting action as associated
with the social object in the curated content system. The social
object may be a news item of a commercial enterprise seeking to
create an awareness around a brand of the commercial enterprise; a
viewpoint commentary item expressed by an individual promoter,
wherein the individual promoter may be an advocate of a viewpoint
comprising a political viewpoint, a social viewpoint, a community
viewpoint, and/or a personal viewpoint; and/or a social commentary
item expressed by the commercial enterprise and/or the individual
promoter seeking to create an awareness around the brand of the
commercial enterprise and/or the individual promoter.
[0033] The method of the curated content system may involve
generating an identification meta-data to be associated with an
original content of a first publisher that originates in a
third-party source server of a public wide area network such that
the original content is attributable to the first publisher through
the identification meta-data associated thereto with the original
content when the original content having the associated
identification meta-data is republished on the page along with
other republished data assets in a curated form on the page by a
subsequent publisher, and wherein the page is a scrapbook page.
[0034] The method of the curated content system may involve
determining that a subsequent publishing of the original content is
an embedded portion of the other work of authorship when a
communication of the identification meta-data is extracted from a
server in which the subsequent publishing is manifested and
transmitted from the server to the processor. Further, the method
of the curated content system may involve automatically generating
a communication having an identity data of a subsequent publisher
and/or a temporal data associated with the subsequent publishing
that may be transmitted to the first publisher of the original
content when the other work of authorship is published with the
embedded portion having the original content.
[0035] The method of the curated content system may involve
providing a financial incentive to the first publisher proportional
to an aggregate number of views, unique visitor count, bounce rate,
social sharing rate, and/or commenting rate, associated with
subsequent publishing of the original content in the other work of
authorship. The other work of authorship may be a separately
copyrightable work of authorship comprising its own content in
addition to leveraged and attributed content from disparate media
sources.
[0036] The third-party source of the public wide area network may
be the social network-based publication system that may be
monitored by the subsequent publisher through a leveraged content
server in which the other work of authorship may be compiled prior
to publishing. The leveraged content server may automatically
format the other work of authorship to be optimally displayed in a
plurality of multimedia types including print, video, a type that
is able to be displayed on a tablet, and/or types that are able to
display online news, and/or a blog.
[0037] Each embedded instance of the original content of the first
publisher in the other works of authorship may be interactive
directly through a location where the other work of authorship is
published in a manner in which a click-through on the embedded
portion of the other work of authorship may transport a navigation
pane presently comprising a particular republishing of the original
content to the social network-based publication system in which the
original content is first published by the first publisher.
[0038] The leveraged content server may automatically determine
which original content is trusted in the public wide area network
based on a republishing history associated with the original
content contributions of the first publisher and other first
publishers, and which may algorithmically present preferred content
to subsequent publishers based on a criteria including a popularity
of republishing of the original content and a credibility scoring
of the first publisher and other publishers that may be determined
based on an algorithmic page rank of republished destinations and
originated sources of the original content. The determination based
on the algorithmic page rank of republished destinations and
originated sources of the original content may also consider a
rating score assessed to original content and first publishers by
subsequent publishers who provide this rating score of original
content and first publishers in the leveraged content server such
that all subsequent publishers have access privileges to access
ratings and associated comments provided by peer subsequent
publishers
[0039] The methods and systems disclosed herein may be implemented
in any means for achieving various aspects, and may be executed in
a form of a machine-readable medium embodying a set of instructions
that, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform any
of the operations disclosed herein. Other features will be apparent
from the accompanying drawings and from the detailed description
that follows.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0040] The embodiments of this invention are illustrated by way of
example and not limitation in the figures of the accompanying
drawings, in which like references indicate similar elements and in
which:
[0041] FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a public wide area network and
a first publisher server according to one or more embodiments.
[0042] FIG. 2 is a schematic view of modules inside a curated
content system curated content system, according to one or more
embodiments.
[0043] FIG. 3 illustrates an interaction view of the publisher,
original content, subsequent publisher and an other work of
authorship, according to one or more embodiments.
[0044] FIG. 4 illustrates a creative use view, according to one or
more embodiments.
[0045] FIG. 5 illustrates a table view, according to one or more
embodiments.
[0046] FIG. 6 is a schematic view of a data processing system,
according to one or more embodiments.
[0047] FIG. 7 illustrates a user interface view of the present
invention, according to one or more embodiments.
[0048] FIG. 8A is a schematic view of a tracking module, according
to one or more embodiments.
[0049] FIG. 8B is a schematic view of the interaction between the
tracking module and a processor, according to one or more
embodiments.
[0050] FIG. 8C is a schematic view of a notification module,
according to one or more embodiment.
[0051] FIG. 9A is a schematic view of the subsequent publishing of
the original content, according to one or more embodiments.
[0052] FIG. 9B is a schematic view of a posted content and an
attributed content inside a media source, according to one or more
embodiments.
[0053] FIG. 10 is a schematic view of a transaction module,
according to one or more embodiments.
[0054] FIG. 11 is a schematic view of functioning between a curated
content systemserver curated content system and the subsequent
publishing of the original content, according to one or more
embodiments.
[0055] FIG. 12A is a schematic view of formatting the other work of
authorship through a curated content system curated content system
to be displayed in a plurality of multimedia formats, according to
one or more embodiments.
[0056] FIG. 12B is a schematic view of formatting the other work of
authorship through a curated content system curated content system
to be displayed in a plurality of multimedia formats and a social
network-based publication system, according to one or more
embodiments.
[0057] FIG. 13 is a schematic view of a rating score system of the
first publisher and original content, according to one or more
embodiments.
[0058] FIG. 14 is a schematic view of a rating score that is
assigned to an original content and a first publisher, according to
one or more embodiments.
[0059] FIG. 15 is a schematic view of a user, a different user, and
the republishing of social objects onto a page of the curated
content system, according to one or more embodiments.
[0060] FIG. 16 is a schematic view of an interaction on the social
object, according to one or more embodiments.
[0061] FIG. 17 is a schematic view of a budget of the user of a
third-party service, according to one or more embodiments.
[0062] FIG. 18 is a schematic view of the social object, according
to one or more embodiments.
[0063] Other features of the present embodiments will be apparent
from the accompanying drawings and from the detailed
description.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0064] Disclosed are a method, an apparatus and/or a system of
amplification of a social object through automatic republishing of
the social object on curated content pages based on relevancy.
Although the present embodiments have been described with reference
to specific example embodiments, it will be evident that various
modifications and changes may be made to these embodiments without
departing from the broader spirit and scope of the various
embodiments.
[0065] Online content and online publishing, as embodied in social
media and social networking websites include a group of
Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and
technological foundations of Web 2.0, which allows for the creation
and exchange of user-generated content. Businesses may refer to
social media as consumer-generated media (CGM). A common thread
running through all definitions of social media is a blending of
technology and social interaction for the co-creation of value.
[0066] The social story interaction (the way web users engage
content) is entering into the consciousness of editors and
producers as they think through the outline of a story. It could
very well be that we will see more stories that have deep social
integration, especially for in-depth and crowd-sourced pieces.
Taking social data and conversation and making sense of it will
likely become more streamlined and perhaps even more accessible to
those besides major news organizations who have the resources to
develop such packages.
[0067] Social media has a crucial role in the field of online
publishing and Internet journalism. Social media may have been
integral to the Arab revolutions and revolts of 2011. Activists on
the ground in Egypt, Libya, and Iran have used Facebook.RTM. to
schedule protests, Twitter.RTM. to coordinate protests, and
YouTube.RTM. to tell the world about the protests (including live
coverage of some events). Indeed, the uprising of 2009 in Iran was
widely coordinated and published using social media websites such
as Twitter.RTM. due to local government restrictions on mobile
communications. It was during this time that the public at large,
both in the West and in the Middle East, realized the vast
potential of social media to make voices heard and opinions known,
which otherwise would have been drowned or subdued due to
government censorship or otherwise.
[0068] Traditionally, online publishing has been the practice of
investigation and reporting of these events, issues, and trends to
a broad audience. Although there is much variation within online
publishing, the role of publisher has often been inaccessible to
the masses. In modern society, news media has become the chief
purveyor of information and opinion about public affairs; but the
role and status of online publishing, along with other forms of
mass media, are undergoing vast changes resulting from the
Internet, especially Web 2.0. Therefore, it is no surprise that
social media has an important role to play in the future of
original content creation for online publishing thereby opening up
the doors of online publishing to a wider audience.
[0069] Social media technologies provide scale and are capable of
reaching a global audience. Social media tools are generally
available to the public at little or no cost. Most social media
production does not require specialized skills and training, or
requires only modest reinterpretation of existing skills (as
opposed to traditional print and news publications which may
require formal training). In the case of social media based
publishing, anyone with access can operate the means of social
media production. In addition, social media can be altered almost
instantaneously by comments or editing (as opposed to industrial
media production).
[0070] Therefore, it is not surprising that social networking now
accounts for 22% of all time spent online in the United States. A
total of 234 million people age 13 or older in the United States
used mobile devices in 2009. Twitter.RTM. processed more than one
billion tweets in December 2009 and averages about 40 million
tweets per day. Over 25% of United States internet page views
occurred at one of the top social networking sites in December
2009, up from 13.8% a year before. The number of social media users
age 65 and older grew 100% throughout 2010, so that one in four
people in that age group are now part of a social networking
website.
[0071] More importantly, social media tools are inspiring people
and activists across the world to easily publish and share
information on a greater scale (especially via online publishing).
The future publisher may be more embedded with the community than
ever before, and news outlets may build their newsrooms to focus on
utilizing the community and may enable its members to be enrolled
as certified publishers who create original content. Bloggers may
no longer be just bloggers, but may be relied upon as more credible
sources worthy of compensation.
[0072] Indeed, reporting has always been in some ways a
collaborative process between journalists, publishers and their
sources. However, social media based online publishing may permit a
merger between the source and the content producer. As a result,
there is potential for online publishing to take on a collaborative
approach where the witness of the news becomes the creator of
original content and its publisher. In essence, the community can
be a source of the news as well as the audience, because social
media makes them both. Social media may provide for a model of
participatory publishing where there may be a potential for greater
engagement and connection with the community, especially if
traditional publishers are open to ceding a degree of editorial
control to the community. A collaborative reporting environment may
be created by enlisting a community of bloggers into the news
gathering and production process.
[0073] FIG. 1 illustrates a network view according to one exemplary
embodiment. The network view shows a curated content system 100, a
first publisher server 102, a third party source server 104, and a
third-party service 118. The first publisher server 102, the third
party source server 104, and the third-party service 118 may
communicate with a public wide area network 106. Also shown is an
identification meta-data 108 which may originate within an original
content 110, which in turn may reside within the first publisher
server 102. The network view also illustrates an other work of
authorship 112, which may be created entirely inside the curated
content system 100. Similar to the first publisher server 102, the
identification meta-data 108 may originate within the original
content 110, which in turn may reside within the other work of
authorship 112 (e.g., within the curated content system 100). The
curated content system 100 may comprise a number of other works of
authorship made up of a corresponding original content 110 and a
corresponding identification meta-data 108. In addition, the other
work of authorship 112 may be entirely contained and created within
the curated content system 100.
[0074] FIG. 1 also shows a social media account 120 of a user 122
of the third-party service 118, and an identification data 126 that
is associated with a social object 124 within the third-party
service 118. The social media account 120 of the user 122 of the
third-party service 118 may be associated with the curated content
system 100 based on an authentication 128, according to one
embodiment. The third-party service 118 may communicate with the
curated content system 100 through the public wide area network
106.
[0075] In another embodiment, the curated content system 100 may
comprise a number of modules to implement specific methods and
functions of the present invention. For example, according to one
embodiment, the curated content system 100 may contain a curation
module 200, a publishing module 202, an authorship module 204, a
linking module 206, a tracking module 208, a republishing module
210, a processor 212, a notification module 214, a generation
module 216, a transaction module 218, a page rank module 220, a
budget advertising module 222, an interaction module 224, a finance
module 226, and a promotion module 228. All of the number of
modules may communicate with each other independently and may also
communicate collectively with the curation module 200, according to
one embodiment. The curation module 200 may be thought of as the
brain of the curated content system 100, while all of the remaining
number of modules may perform a number of tasks in association and
conjunction with the curation module 200.
[0076] According to one exemplary embodiment, FIG. 1 may show a
first publisher 114 and a number of subsequent publishers 116 in
addition to the curated content system 100, the first publisher
server 102, the third party source server 104, the identification
meta-data 108, and the original content 110. It may be appreciated
that, at least according to one embodiment, the first publisher 114
may communicate with the first publisher server 102, and similarly,
the number of subsequent publishers 116 may communicate with the
curated content system 100. In the above mentioned embodiment, the
first publisher 114 and the number of subsequent publishers 116 may
be a number of distinct entities and/or a number of distinct
sources.
[0077] According to one embodiment, the curated content system 100
may be a computer server that may perform the functions and methods
of the present invention. Particularly, the primary function of the
curated content system 100 may be to recognize the original content
110 with the identification meta-data 108 (created in the first
publisher server 102 by the first publisher 114) of the original
content 110 and to embed the original content 110 (which carries a
unique identification meta-data 108) in the other work of
authorship 112 (created by the number of subsequent publishers
116). The curated content system 100 may communicate with the third
party source server 104 and the first publisher server 102 through
the public wide area network 106. In one embodiment, the curated
content system 100 may embed the identification meta-data 108
identifying the original content 110 and the first publisher 114
into the other work of authorship 112.
[0078] The first publisher server 102 may be a computer server that
may track, identify, and gather a plurality of original content
110A-N created by a plurality of first publishers. According to
this embodiment, the first publisher server 102 may communicate
with the third party source server 104 to aggregate and collect the
plurality of original content 110A-N from the plurality of first
publishers. The first publisher server 102 may then assign the
unique identification meta-data 108 to each of the plurality of
original content 110A-N. In one embodiment, the first publisher
server 102 may communicate with the third party source server 104
to gather and compile the original content 110.
[0079] The third party source server 104 may be a computer server
that may store and transmit a data that may be accessed via the
Internet (e.g., the public wide area network 106). For example, an
Internet social networking website may be the third party source
server 104. The third party source server 104 may host a number of
Internet websites (e.g., a Facebook.RTM. site, a Twitter.RTM. site,
a YouTube.RTM. site, a blog site, a news site, a video site, etc.),
and/or an other data resource that may be transmitted over the
public wide area network 106, according to one embodiment. The
third party source server 104 may also be a source for the original
content 110, according to one embodiment. The source for the
original content 110 may be the number of Internet websites, each
of the number of Internet websites being contained on the third
party source server 104.
[0080] The curated content system 100, the first publisher server
102, the third party source server 104, and the third-party service
118 may all communicate with each other through the public wide
area network 106 (e.g., the Internet). The public wide area network
106 may comprise a number of computer networks as well as a number
of specific servers (e.g., the third party source server 104) that
may cover a broad area (i.e., may be a network 626 and/or a server
with a number of communications that may link and/or cross a
metropolitan boundary, a regional boundary, and/or a national
boundary), according to one embodiment.
[0081] According to another exemplary embodiment, the original
content 110 may contain the identification meta-data 108 which may
identify the original content 110 as being created by the first
publisher 114. The identification meta-data 108 may identify the
first publisher 114 as the creator of the original content 110 on
the third party source server 104 and available on the public wide
area network 106, according to one embodiment. The identification
meta-data 108 may contain a structured hidden information that may
describe a number of features of the original content 110 (e.g.,
the name of the creator of the original content 110, the time the
original content 110 was created, the location where the original
content 110 was created, the IP address from where the original
content 110 was created etc.).
[0082] According to one embodiment, the identification meta-data
108 may be used to classify and identify a number of specifics
regarding the original content 110 (as identified in the examples
above). Each of the identification meta-data 108 may specify a
property/value pair. A name attribute may identify a property and a
content attribute may specify a value of the property (e.g., the
name of the first publisher 114 of the original content 110 may be
identified as a Facebook.RTM. user), according to one embodiment.
According to another embodiment, the identification meta-data 108
may be stored in and retrieved from a database and may represent a
number of tags and/or a number of titles that may be utilized
within a source code of an Internet website (e.g., the Twitter.RTM.
site and/or the Facebook.RTM. site). The identification meta-data
108 may also provide a descriptive information about a context, a
quality, a condition, and/or a number of characteristics of an
underlying data (e.g., of the original content 110), according to
one embodiment. According to another embodiment, the identification
meta-data 108 may also include a number of attributes such as a
date and a number of time stamps associated with the original
content 110.
[0083] According to an exemplary embodiment, the original content
110 may be created by the first publisher 114 and placed on the
first publisher server 102 which may then be distributed over the
public wide area network 106. The original content 110 may be a
blog post (e.g., a Wordpress.RTM. post, a Blogger.RTM. post, etc.),
a post on a social networking website (e.g., the Facebook.RTM.
site, the Twitter.RTM. site, etc.), a video post (e.g., a
YouTube.RTM. post), and/or an other content that may be created by
a number of users to be shared across the public wide area network
106. The original content 110 may be created by the first publisher
114 and may contain the identification meta-data 108.
[0084] According to one embodiment, the original content 110 may be
created entirely within the first publisher server 102. The
original content 110 may also be a part of the other work of
authorship 112 and may be embedded within the other work of
authorship 112 inside the curated content system 100. According to
one exemplary embodiment, the original content 110 may be an
original work of authorship and may attribute an origination and/or
a creation of a particular information (e.g., the blog post) to a
specific individual (e.g., the first publisher 114) and/or an
entity acting at a particular time. The original content 110 may be
protected by a number of copyright laws which may provide the
creator of the original content 110 with an exclusive set of
rights, including a right to copy, a right to distribute, and/or a
right to adapt the original content 110.
[0085] Similarly, the other work of authorship 112 may also be
protected by the number of copyright laws which may provide the
creator of the other work of authorship 112 with the exclusive set
of rights, including the right to copy, the right to distribute,
and/or the right to adapt the other work of authorship 112.
According to an exemplary embodiment, the other work of authorship
112 may be created by the number of subsequent publishers 116 and
may be created and compiled in the curated content system 100. The
other work of authorship 112 may be embedded with the original
content 110, which in turn may contain the identification meta-data
108. According to one embodiment, the other work of authorship 112
may comprise a plurality of textual, audio, video, and/or pictorial
components (e.g., a Facebook.RTM. post 402, a blog post, a
YouTube.RTM. video, an audio file, and/or a picture). In addition,
the other work of authorship 112 may be created and published by
the number of subsequent publishers 116.
[0086] The original content 110 may be created by the first
publisher 114, and the other work of authorship 112 may be created
by the number of subsequent publishers 116. According to one
embodiment, the first publisher 114 may be a user of a data related
service and/or an Internet website (e.g., the Facebook.RTM. site,
the Twitter.RTM. site, the YouTube.RTM. site, the blog site, the
news site, the video site, etc.) hosted on the third party source
server 104 and transmitted over the public wide area network 106.
For example, the first publisher 114 may be a Twitter.RTM. user
and/or the Facebook.RTM. user who may post a message, a Tweet.TM.,
and/or a status update. The message, the Tweet.TM., and/or the
status update by the first publisher 114 may be recorded on the
third party source server 104 as the original content 110 (e.g., a
Twitter.RTM. server and/or a Facebook.RTM. server) and may be
available to the number of subsequent publishers 116 through the
public wide area network 106 (e.g., the Internet).
[0087] The number of subsequent publishers 116 may then decide to
incorporate the original content 110 of the first publisher 114
into the other work of authorship 112, at least according to one
exemplary embodiment. Another embodiment may involve the number of
subsequent publishers 116 who may publish the other work of
authorship 112 which may contain the original content 110 created
by the first publisher 114. The number of subsequent publishers
116, like the first publisher 114, may be a number of users of a
data related service or an Internet website (e.g., the
Facebook.RTM. site, the Twitter.RTM. site, the YouTube.RTM. site,
the blog site, the news site, the video site, etc.). In another
embodiment, the number of subsequent publishers 116 may create the
other work of authorship 112 and may incorporate the original
content 110 created by the first publisher 114 and found on the
third party source server 104 into the other work of authorship
112. The incorporation of the original content 110 and the
compiling of the other work of authorship 112 may occur inside the
curated content system 100. The other work of authorship 112 may be
accessible on the public wide area network 106, according to one
embodiment.
[0088] The third-party service 118 may be a computer server that
may store and transmit the data that may be accessed via the
Internet (e.g., the public wide area network 106). For example, an
Internet social networking website may be the third-party service
118. The third-party service 118 may host a number of Internet web
sites (e.g., the Facebook.RTM. site, the Twitter.RTM. site, the
YouTube.RTM. site, the blog site, the news site, the video site,
etc.), and/or an other data resource that may be transmitted over
the public wide area network 106, according to one embodiment.
[0089] Associated with the third-party service 118 may be a social
media account 120. The social media account 120 may be an account
associated with the third-party service 118 (e.g. the Facebook.RTM.
site, the Twitter.RTM. site, the YouTube.RTM. site, the blog site,
the news site, the video site, etc.). The third-party service 118
may communicate with the curated content system 100 through the
public wide area network 106 when the social media account 120 is
being associated with the curated content system 100 based on an
authentication 128 executed by the curated content system 100,
according to one embodiment.
[0090] According to one embodiment, the social media account 120 of
the third-party service 118 may be associated with the curated
content system 100 based on the authentication 128 that may be
performed by the curated content system 100. In one embodiment, a
linking module 206 (see FIG. 2) within the curated content system
100 may perform the authentication 128.
[0091] A social object 124 may originate within the third-party
service 118, or may be leveraged from an other disparate source by
the user 122. The social object 124 may be a news item 1800, a
viewpoint commentary item 1806 wherein the viewpoint commentary
item 1806 may be a political viewpoint 1808, a social viewpoint
1810, a community viewpoint 1812, and/or a personal viewpoint 1814,
and/or a social commentary item 1820 (see FIG. 18), and may have an
identification data 126 associated with it, according to one
embodiment.
[0092] See FIGS. 15-18 for further description on the third-party
service 118, the social media account 120, the user 122, the social
object 124, and the identification data 126.
[0093] As mentioned above, and according to one exemplary
embodiment, the curated content system 100 may comprise the number
of modules to implement specific methods and functions of the
present invention. FIG. 2 illustrates the functioning of each of
the number of modules inside the curated content system 100 to
accomplish the creation of the other work of authorship 112 in
addition to other functions which will be described in detail
below. All of the number of modules within the curated content
system 100 may be interconnected in order to compile and publish
the other work of authorship 112, among other functions (e.g.,
notifying the first publisher 114 upon publication of the other
work of authorship 112).
[0094] The functions performed by the curated content system 100 as
identified above may be performed by the number of modules
contained within the curated content system 100. For example, the
curated content system may contain the curation module 200 which
may recognize the original content 110 with the identification
meta-data 108 (created in the first publisher server 102 by the
first publisher 114) of the original content 110 and may then embed
the original content 110 (which carries the unique identification
meta-data 108) in the other work of authorship 112 (created by the
number of subsequent publishers 116). The curation module 200 may
communicate with the publishing module 202 and the authorship
module 204 to permit the number of subsequent publishers 116 to
publish the other work of authorship 112, according to one
embodiment. In another embodiment, the curation module 200 may
embed the original content 110 with the corresponding
identification meta-data 108 of the original content 110
identifying the first publisher 114 into the other work of
authorship 112.
[0095] According to one embodiment, the curation module 200 may
measure, at a given time, the ability of the number of subsequent
publishers 116 to use the original content 110 created by the first
publisher 114 to create and publish the other work of authorship
112. The curation module 200 may also communicate with all of the
remaining number of modules to perform the functions and methods of
the present invention, according to one embodiment. In one
particular embodiment, the curation module 200 may permit all of
the number of subsequent publishers 116 to have access privileges
to a rating score and comments assessed to the original content 110
and the first publisher 114 by the number of subsequent publishers
116. The curation module 200 may also automatically format the
other work of authorship 112 to be optimally displayed in a
plurality of multimedia formats (e.g., a print format, a video
format, a news format, a blog format, etc.) according to one
exemplary embodiment. In another embodiment, the curation module
200 may permit the number of subsequent publishers 116 to monitor
the other work of authorship 112 on the public wide area network
106 upon subsequent publication from the subsequent publishers
116.
[0096] Another important aspect of the curated content system 100
may be the publishing module 202. The publishing module 202 may
publish the other work of authorship 112 such that the other work
of authorship 112 may be accessible over the public wide area
network 106. The publishing module 202 may also determine a
publisher of the original content 110 to be the first publisher
114. Similarly, the publishing module 202 may also determine the
publisher of the other work of authorship 112 to be the number of
subsequent publishers 116. According to one exemplary embodiment,
the publishing module 202 may facilitate a process of production
and dissemination of the other work of authorship 112 and make it
available for public view over the public wide area network
106.
[0097] The publishing module 202 may communicate with the
authorship module 204 such that the authorship module 204 may
determine the creator of both the original content 110 and the
other work of authorship 112. The authorship module 204 may
determine the author of the original content 110 to be the first
publisher 114 and the author of the other work of authorship 112 to
be the number of subsequent publishers 116. The authorship module
204 may make a determination of the number of distinct entities
and/or a number of distinct persons who may comprise the first
publisher 114 and the number of subsequent publishers 116. In one
embodiment, the authorship module 204 may designate the first
publisher 114 and one of the number of subsequent publishers 116 as
a person who originates and/or gives existence to the original
content 110 and the other work of authorship 112, respectively.
[0098] The authorship module 204 may also attribute the origination
and/or the creation of the original content 110 and the other work
of authorship 112 to a specific individual and/or an entity acting
at a particular time. In another embodiment, the authorship module
204 may assign a responsibility and may give a credit for an
intellectual work (e.g., the original content 110 and/or the other
work of authorship 112). Such a recognition provided by the
authorship module 204 may be critical for the reputation and
integrity of the creator (e.g., the first publisher 114 and/or the
number of subsequent publishers 116) of the original work of
authorship (e.g., the original content 110 and/or the other work of
authorship 112), according to one exemplary embodiment.
[0099] The curated content system 100 may also include the linking
module 206 that may associate the social media account 120 of the
user 122 of the third-party service 118 to the curated content
system 100 based on the authentication 128 of the social media
account 120 through the curated content system 100, according to
one embodiment.
[0100] The curated content system 100 may also include the tracking
module 208 that may generate the identification meta-data 108 to be
associated with the original content 110 of the first publisher 114
that may originate in the third party source server 104 of the
public wide area network 106, according to one embodiment. In
another embodiment, the tracking module 208 may attribute the
original content 110 to the first publisher 114 through the
identification meta-data 108. The tracking module 208 may also
determine an authorship source of the original content 110 and the
other work of authorship 112, in addition to an other data related
to the original content 110 and the other work of authorship 112
such as the time of creation and place of creation.
[0101] The tracking module 208 may also be configured to determine
that the social object 124 placed in the third-party service 118 is
associated with a page 1500 in the curated content system 100 based
on a relevancy match 1504 between the identification data 126
associated with the social object 124 with at least a portion of a
content 1502 of the page 1500 (see FIG. 15), according to one
embodiment.
[0102] The tracking module 208 may communicate with the
republishing module 210 which in turn may communicate with the
processor 212 configured to automatically republish the social
object 124 adjacent to at least the portion of the content 1502 of
the page 1500 using the processor 212 (see FIG. 15), according to
one embodiment.
[0103] The tracking module 208 may communicate with the processor
212 within the curated content system 100. According to an
exemplary embodiment, the processor 212 may determine that a
subsequent publishing by the number of subsequent publishers 116 of
the original content 110 may be an embedded portion of the other
work of authorship 112. According to one embodiment, this
determination may happen when a communication 810 of the
identification meta-data 108 may be extracted from the curated
content system 100 in which the subsequent publisher 116 may be
manifested and transmitted from the curated content system 100 to
the processor 212.
[0104] Another important aspect of the curated content system 100
may be the notification module 214. The processor 212 may
communicate with the notification module 214. According to one
embodiment, the notification module 214 may generate the
communication 810 having an identity data of the number of
subsequent publishers 116 and a temporal data (e.g., a data that
may explicitly refer to the time of creation and/or publication of
the other work of authorship 112 and/or a data that may be linked
to a certain time and/or period between two moments in time when
the other work of authorship 112 may have been created) associated
with the subsequent publishing of the other work of authorship 112.
The notification module 214 may then transmit the communication 810
to the first publisher 114 of the original content 110 when the
other work of authorship 112 is published with the embedded portion
having the original content 110.
[0105] In yet another embodiment, the notification module 214 may
be dependent on the generation module 216 to generate the
identification meta-data 108 to be associated with the original
content 110 of the first publisher 114 and to generate the
communication 810 having the identification meta-data 108 of the
number of subsequent publishers 116 that may be transmitted to the
first publisher 114. The generation module 216 may generate all of
the data needed by the notification module 214 in addition to the
identification meta-data 108, according to one embodiment. In one
embodiment, the generation module 216 may generate a scrapbook page
(using a scrapbook page generator 217). A number of other
republished data assets (e.g., photos, videos, text, items) from a
number of disparate sources on the web may also appear in a curated
form on the scrapbook page generated by the scrapbook page
generator 217. The scrapbook page may be a socially sharable web
page having a collection of assets such as photos, videos, clips,
and/or text that are relevant to the content 1502 of the page 1500
as arranged and/or posted by a user 122. The scrapbook page may be
created by the number of subsequent publishers 116 based on a
number of interests of the number of subsequent publishers 116
using the generation module 216. The scrapbook page generator 217
and the creation of a number of scrapbook pages are a number of
inherent features of the generation module 216, according to one
embodiment.
[0106] The scrapbook page may be created through the generation
module 216 as an arrangement of the subsequent publishing of the
original content 110. The scrapbook page may include a curated
content (e.g., self selected and placed by the user 122 in a
desired form) of the curated content system 110 arranged on the
scrapbook page in a manner having meaning to the user 122, wherein
the curated content includes the subsequent publishing of the
original content 110 and any number of photographs, objects,
clippings, and items discovered through the web that resonates with
at least one of a personal, a business, and/or an emotional aspect
of the user. The scrapbook page created through the scrapbook page
generator 217 of the generation module 216 may be shared among a
number of users 122 and may be publicly visible and/or private to
only a selected subset of the number of users 122 based on
permissions set by the number of subsequent publishers 116. In one
embodiment, the number of scrapbook pages generated by the
scrapbook page generator 217 of the generation module 217 may
include a number of public messages, for example, to advertise
things to buy and/or sell, announce events, and/or provide an
information to friends and/or the public.
[0107] The curated content system 100 may also contain the
transaction module 218 that may provide a financial incentive to
the first publisher 114 depending on an aggregate number of page
views associated with the subsequent publishing of the original
content 110 in the other work of authorship 112. The transaction
module 218 may facilitate financial transactions between the number
of subsequent publishers 116 and the first publisher 114 (e.g., if
the number of subsequent publishers 116 wishes to monetize the
other work of authorship 112 which contains the original content
110 created by the first publisher 114). The creator of the other
work of authorship 112 (e.g., the number of subsequent publishers
116) may be given the option to purchase the copyrighted work
(e.g., the original content 110) created by the first publisher 114
so that the number of subsequent publishers 116 may copy, adapt,
and/or transform the original work of authorship (e.g., the
original content 110) created by the first publisher 114.
[0108] Closely related to the transaction module 218 may be the
page rank module 220. According to one embodiment, the page rank
module 220 may determine an algorithm-based page rank of the other
work of authorship 112 based on a rating score assessed to the
original content 110 and the first publisher 114 by the number of
subsequent publishers 116. The financial incentive to the first
publisher 114 may also depend on the rating score assessed by the
number of subsequent publishers 116 to the original content 110
created by the first publisher 114. The page rank module 220 may
assign a numerical weight to each piece of the original content 110
within the other work of authorship 112 with the purpose of
measuring a relative importance of the original content 110 within
the other work of authorship 112 (compared to a number of other
original content 110 created by a number of other first publishers
114). The rating score assessed to the original content 110 may be
determined by measuring both a quality and a quantity of each piece
of the content 110 (created and published by a number of first
publishers 114) that qualifies as the original content 110 and that
may be embedded in the other work of authorship 112 (by the number
of subsequent publishers 116).
[0109] The curated content system 100 may also include the budget
advertising module 222 that may automatically calculate an
estimated branding value 1600 based on republishing of the social
object 124 adjacent to at least the portion of the content 1502 of
the page 1500 (see FIG. 16), according to one embodiment.
[0110] The curated content system 100 may also include the
interaction module 224, which may interact with the budget
advertising module 222, that may automatically measure the
interaction 1602 with the social object 124 adjacent to at least
the portion of the content 1502 of the page 1500 (see FIG. 16),
according to one embodiment.
[0111] The interaction module 224 may communicate with the finance
module 226 within the curated content system 100. The finance
module 226 may debit 1614 a financial account 1612 associated with
the user 122 of the third-party service 118 based on the
interaction 1602 (see FIG. 16), according to one embodiment.
[0112] The curated content system 100 may also include the
promotion module 228 that promotes the social object 124 in a
number of pages of the curated content system 100 based on a budget
1700 of the user 122 of a third party service 118, wherein the
number of pages in which the social object 124 is republished is
proportional to the budget 1700 of the user 122 of the third-party
service 118 (see FIG. 17), according to one embodiment.
[0113] FIG. 3 illustrates an interaction view 300 according to one
exemplary embodiment. The first publisher 114 may publish the
content 1502 that may originate in the third party source server
104 in the public wide area network 106. The original content 110
may be the content 1502 (e.g., an online content created on the
social networking website and/or an other website) that may be
created and published by the first publisher 114. The original
content 110 may also be republished by the number of subsequent
publishers 116 and the number of subsequent publishers 116 may
republish the content 1502 already published as the original
content 110 by the first publisher 114, according to one
embodiment.
[0114] According to another embodiment, the number of subsequent
publishers 116 may also rank the first publisher 114 and the
original content 110. In one embodiment, the other work of
authorship 112 may be published by the number of the subsequent
publishers 116 and may contain the identity data of the number of
the subsequent publishers 116 and the first publisher 114 as well
as the temporal data associated with the subsequent publishing 302.
In this embodiment, the other work of authorship 112 may contain an
embedded content 304 from a number of disparate online (e.g.,
Internet) sources and may transmit the temporal data associated
with the subsequent publishing 302 to the first publisher 114 of
the original content 110 when the other work of authorship 112 is
published with the embedded content 304 portion having the original
content 110.
[0115] FIG. 4 illustrates a creative use view 400 according to one
exemplary embodiment. The original content 110 may be found in the
third party source server 104 which may in turn be the
Facebook.RTM. post 402 and/or a Twitter.RTM. post 404, each
containing the identification meta-data 108 of the original content
110, which may specifically identify the creator as the first
publisher 114. The curated content system 100 may compile the
original content 110 (e.g., a Facebook.RTM. post 402 and/or a
Twitter.RTM. post 404) and associate it with the first publisher
114 via the identification meta-data 108 associated with the
Facebook.RTM. post 402 and/or the Twitter.RTM. post 404. The number
of subsequent publishers 116 may then republish the original
content 110 (e.g., the Facebook.RTM. post 402 and/or the
Twitter.RTM. post 404) found in the third party source server 104
using the curated content system 100, according to one exemplary
embodiment.
[0116] According to another embodiment, the transaction module 218
may provide a financial incentive to the first publisher 114
proportional to at least one of an aggregate number of views, a
unique visitor count, a bounce rate, a social sharing date, and a
commenting rate associated with the subsequent publishing of the
original content 110 in the other work of authorship 112. In this
embodiment, the other work of authorship 112 may be separately
copyrightable comprising an other original content 904 (created by
the number of subsequent publishers 116) in addition to a leveraged
and attributed content 910 from a number of disparate media sources
(e.g., from a social networking website on the Internet).
[0117] FIG. 5 illustrates a table view 500 according to one
embodiment. The first publisher 114 may be Jack, John, Adam, Ash,
etc. The original content 110 published by Jack may be the
Twitter.RTM. post 404. The original content 110 published by John
may be the Facebook.RTM. post 402 and the Twitter.RTM. post 404.
The original content 110 published by Adam may be a YouTube.RTM.
video 504 and the original content 110 produced by Ash may be the
Facebook.RTM. post 402. The number of subsequent publishers 116 may
be Jane, Jill, Ashley, Alice, etc. and would correspond to the
first publisher 114 being Jack, John, Adam, Ash, etc.,
respectively. The other work of authorship 112 republished by Jane
may be the YouTube.RTM. video 504 and the Twitter.RTM. post 404
wherein a posted content 502 may be the Twitter.RTM. post 404
published by Jack, according to one embodiment. The other work of
authorship 112 republished by Jill may be the Facebook.RTM. post
402 and the Twitter.RTM. post 404 published by John in addition to
the YouTube.RTM. video wherein the posted content 502 may be the
Facebook.RTM. post 402 and the Twitter.RTM. post 404 published by
John, according to another embodiment.
[0118] Similarly, the other work of authorship 112 republished by
Ashley may be a web page, the Facebook.RTM. post 402 and the
YouTube.RTM. video 502 of Adam wherein the posted content 502 may
be the YouTube.RTM. video 502 of Adam along with the identity of
subsequent publisher 116 Adam provided by the identification
meta-data 108 included in the YouTube.RTM. video 504 of Adam.
Finally, the other work of authorship 112 republished by Alice may
include the Twitter.RTM. post 404 and the YouTube.RTM. video 504
including the Facebook.RTM. post 402 of Ash wherein the posted
content 502 may be the Facebook.RTM. post 402 of Ash along with the
identity of the subsequent publisher 116 of Ash and the temporal
data 302 of Ash provided by the identification meta-data 108
included in the YouTube.RTM. video 504 of Ash, according to one
embodiment.
[0119] FIG. 7 illustrates a user interface view 700 according to
one embodiment. The original content 110 may be derived from a
disparate media source, such as a media source 702 (e.g., the
Twitter.RTM. site, the Facebook.RTM. site, the YouTube.RTM. site,
etc.). The number of subsequent publishers 116 may then republish
the original content 110 in the other work of authorship 112 by
using the content 1502 already published by the first publisher
114, according to one embodiment. This operation may take place
inside the curated content system 100. The number of subsequent
publishers 116 may also have the freedom to pick and choose which
of the original content 110 from which of the number of first
publishers 114 he/she may want to republish in the other work of
authorship 112, according to one exemplary embodiment.
[0120] In yet another embodiment, the third party source server 104
of the public wide area network 106 may be a social network-based
publication system 1102 (e.g. a short messaging system,
Instagram.RTM., Facebook.RTM., Pinterest.RTM., a blog, and an other
media creation platform) that may be monitored by the number of
subsequent publishers 116 through a posted content management
server (e.g., the curated content system 100) in which the other
work of authorship 112 may be compiled prior to publishing (e.g.,
republishing by the number of subsequent publishers 116 as the
other work of authorship 112).
[0121] FIG. 8A illustrates a tracking module 208 according to one
embodiment. The original content 110 may be found in the third
party source server 104 and may be published by the first publisher
114. The third party source server 104 may be a part of the public
wide area network 106. The tracking module 208 may embed the
identification meta-data 108 in the original content 110 to
identify and track the original content 110 to the first publisher
114, according to one embodiment.
[0122] FIG. 8B illustrates a processor 212. According to an
exemplary embodiment, the processor 212 may determine that a
subsequent publishing as the other work of authorship 112 of the
original content 110 may be an embedded portion 304 of the other
work of authorship 112. In this embodiment, the curated content
system 100 may compile the original content 110 along with the
identification meta-data 108 and incorporate both into the other
work of authorship 112. According to another exemplary embodiment,
the processor 212 and a memory 806 may determine that the original
content 110 may be published by the first publisher 114 by
utilizing the identification meta-data 108 associated with the
original content 110. It may be appreciated that the processor 212
of FIG. 8B may be the same and/or similar to a processor 602 of
FIG. 6 and may perform substantially the same functions.
[0123] FIG. 8C illustrates a notification module 214 according to
one exemplary embodiment. The processor 212 may communicate with
the notification module 214. According to one embodiment, the
notification module 214 may generate the communication 810 having
the identity data of the number of subsequent publishers 116
associated with the subsequent publishing 302 of the other work of
authorship 112 having the original content 110 (associable to the
first publisher 114 by the identification meta-data 108). The
notification module 214 may then transmit the communication 810 to
the first publisher 114 of the original content 110 when the other
work of authorship 112 is published with the embedded content
portion 304 having the original content 110. The communication 810
may comprise a republishing data associated with the republishing
of the original content 110 (such as a location of republishing, a
date of republishing, a time of republishing, etc.), according to
one embodiment.
[0124] According to another exemplary embodiment, a posted content
management portal (e.g., the curated content system 100), may
automatically format the other work of authorship 112 to be
optimally displayed in a plurality of multimedia format types
including print 1202 (e.g., for a newspaper), tablet format (e.g.,
for the iPad.RTM.), video 1204 (e.g., for the YouTube.RTM. site),
online news 1206 (e.g., for The New York Times.RTM. reader), and/or
blog format 1208 (e.g., for Blogger.RTM., Tumblr.RTM.,
Posterous.RTM., etc.). In this embodiment, each embedded content
302 of the original content 110 of the first publisher 114 in the
other work of authorship 112 may be directly interactive through a
location where the other work of authorship 112 may be published in
a manner in which a click-through on the embedded content 302
portion of the other work of authorship 112 may transport a
navigation pane 1210 presently comprising a particular republishing
of the original content 110 to the social network-based publication
system 1102 in which the original content 110 may be first
published by the first publisher 114.
[0125] FIG. 9A illustrates the subsequent publishing 902 of the
original content 110, according to one embodiment. The first
publisher 114 may create and publish the original content 110 in
the third party source server 104. The identification meta-data 108
may associate the first publisher 114 with the original content
110. The number of subsequent publishers 116 may then republish at
least a part of the original content 110 in the other work of
authorship 112 in the curated content system 100.
[0126] FIG. 9B illustrates a posted content 502 and an attributed
content 910 inside the media source 702 in the other work of
authorship 112, according to one embodiment. It may be that
according to one embodiment that the number of subsequent
publishers 116 may create and publish the other work of authorship
112 which may republish the original content 110 created by the
first publisher 114 identifiable with the identification meta-data
108 embedded in the original content 110. The number of subsequent
publishers 116 may also publish the other original content 904 in
the other work of authorship 112 wherein both the original content
110 and the other original content 904 of the number of subsequent
publishers 116 are associable with the media source 702 which may
contain the posted content 502 (e.g., the original content 110 that
the number of subsequent publishers 116 has decided to use and
republish in the other work of authorship 112), and the attributed
content 910 (e.g., the number of portions of the original content
110 that the number of subsequent publishers 116 has republished in
the other of work of authorship 112), according to one
embodiment.
[0127] It may be that according to one exemplary embodiment, the
posted content management portal (e.g., the curated content system
100) may determine which of the original content 110 is trusted in
the public wide area network 106 based on a republishing history
associated with the original content 110, contributions of the
first publisher 114 and the number of other first publishers of
other original content 904, and which algorithmically presents a
preferred content to the number of subsequent publishers 116. This
determination, according to one embodiment, may be based on a
criteria that may include a popularity of republishing of the
original content 110 and a credibility scoring of the first
publisher 114 and the number of other first publishers that may be
determined based on an algorithmic page rank of republished
destinations and a number of originated sources of the original
content 110.
[0128] FIG. 10 illustrates the transaction module 218 according to
one embodiment. A subsequent publishing 902 of the original content
110 by the first publisher 114 found in the third party source
server 104 may happen in the curated content system 100 by the
number of subsequent publishers 116. The transaction module 218 may
determine a page view 1002 (e.g., a number of times a republished
original content 110 is viewed) and may then determine a financial
value 1004 attributable to the first publisher 114 based on the
page view 1002.
[0129] The page view 1002 may be a page impression which may be a
request to load a single page of the Internet web site that may
contain a republishing of the original content 110 by the number of
subsequent publishers 116, according to one embodiment. On the
public wide area network 106, the page view 1002 may result from a
web user clicking on a link on an other HTML page pointing to the
page which may contain a republishing of the original content 110
by the number of subsequent publishers 116, according to one
embodiment. The page view 1002 may include a request for the
original content 110 found in the other work of authorship 112
whose type may be defined as a page 1002 in a log analysis. In a
log analysis, the page view 1002 may generate multiple hits as all
the resources required to view the page, according to one
embodiment.
[0130] FIG. 11 illustrates the functioning between the curated
content system 100 and the subsequent publishing 902 of the
original content 110 in the other work of authorship 112, according
to one embodiment. The third party source server 104 of the public
wide area network 106 may be the social network-based publication
system 1102 that may be monitored by the number of subsequent
publishers 116 through the posted content management server (e.g.,
the curated content system 100) in which the other work of
authorship 112 may be compiled prior to publishing (e.g.,
republishing by the number of subsequent publishers 116 as the
other work of authorship 112). It may be that according to one
embodiment that the number of subsequent publishers 116 may create
and publish the other work of authorship 112 which may republish
the original content 110 created by the first publisher 114
identifiable with the identification meta-data 108 embedded in the
original content 110. The number of subsequent publishers 116 may
also publish the other original content 904 in the other work of
authorship 112 wherein both the original content 110 and the other
original content 904 of the number of subsequent publishers 116 are
associable with the media source 702.
[0131] FIGS. 12A and 12B illustrate another exemplary embodiment
wherein the posted content management portal (e.g., the curated
content system 100), may automatically format the other work of
authorship 112 to be optimally displayed in a plurality of
multimedia format types including print 1202 (e.g., for a
newspaper), tablet format (e.g., for the iPad.RTM.), video 1204
(e.g., for the YouTube.RTM. site), online news 1206 (e.g., for The
New York Times.RTM. reader), and/or blog format 1208 (e.g., for
Blogger.RTM., Tumblr.RTM., Posterous.RTM., etc.). In this
embodiment, each embedded instance of the original content 110 of
the first publisher 114 in the other work of authorship 112 may be
directly interactive through the location where the other work of
authorship 112 may be published in a manner in which a
click-through on the embedded content 304 portion of the other work
of authorship 112 may transport a navigation pane 1210 (as shown in
FIG. 12B) presently comprising a particular republishing of the
original content 110 to the social network-based publication system
1102 in which the original content 110 may be first published by
the first publisher 114.
[0132] According to another exemplary embodiment, the determination
based on the algorithmic page rank of republished destinations and
the number of originated sources of the original content 110 may
also consider a rating score assessed to the original content 110
and the number of first publishers by the number of subsequent
publishers 116. This rating score of the original content 110 and
the number of first publishers may be provided in the curated
content system 100 such that all of the number of subsequent
publishers 116 may have access to ratings and associated comments
provided by a peer subsequent publisher.
[0133] FIG. 13 illustrates the functioning of the rating score
method of the present invention, according to one embodiment. The
curated content system 100 may determine that a certain original
content 110 may be a trusted content 1302 (the original content 110
found in the public wide area network 106 and created by the first
publisher 114). According to one embodiment, the curated content
system 100 may assign a popularity 1304 to the original content
110, a credibility 1306 to the first publisher 114 and a page rank
1308 to both the original content 110 and the first publisher 114.
The popularity 1304, the credibility 1306 and the page rank 1308
may be a part of the republishing history 1310 which may associate
the popularity 1304, the credibility 1306 and the page rank 1308 to
the original content 110 when republished by the number of
subsequent publishers 116, according to one embodiment.
[0134] FIG. 14 illustrates a rating score 1402 that may be assigned
to the original content 110 and the first publisher 114, according
to one embodiment. The popularity 1304, credibility 1306 and the
page rank 1308 of the original content 110 and the first publisher
114 may be assigned a single rating score 1402 wherein a comment
1404 may be permitted by a number of other subsequent publishers
116. This rating score 1402 may then be assigned to the original
content 110 and the first publisher 114 as illustrated in FIG. 14,
according to one embodiment.
[0135] Reference is now made to FIG. 15, which illustrates the
social object 124 placed in the third-party service 118 being
associated with a page 1500 of the curated content system 100 based
on a relevancy match 1504 between the identification data 126
associated with the social object 124 and at least a portion of the
content 1502 of the page 1500, according to one embodiment.
[0136] In one embodiment, the curated content system 100 may
contain a page 1500 that contains the content 1502. The page 1500
and the content 1502 may be created by a different user 1512 by
republishing a number of other social objects 1514 onto the curated
content system 100. The curated content system 100 may contain a
number of pages with an associating content, and each of the pages
and the content 1502 of each of the pages may be created by at
least one different user 1512 by republishing the number of other
social objects 1514, according to one embodiment. The user 122 and
the different user 1512, as well as the social media account 120
and a social media account 1516, may be a number of separate
entities; and the third-party service 118 and a third-party service
1518 may be different services or the same service, according to
one or more embodiments.
[0137] In one embodiment, there may be the social media account 120
of the user 122 associated with the third-party service 118. The
social media account 120 may be associated with the curated content
system 100 in a manner that was described in the discussion of FIG.
1. The social media account 1516 of the different user 1512 may be
associated with the curated content system 100 in a similar manner,
according to one embodiment.
[0138] In one embodiment, the social object 124 may originate
within the third-party service 118, and/or may be leveraged from a
disparate source. The identification data 126 may originate within
the social object 124 which in turn may reside within the
third-party service 118. Similarly, after the social object 124 is
republished (described hereinafter), the identification data 126
may originate within the social object 124, which in turn may
reside within the page 1500 in the curated content system 100. The
page 1500 may reside entirely inside the curated content system
100.
[0139] The identification data 126 may contain the structured
hidden information that may describe a number of features of the
social object 124 (e.g., the name of the creator of the social
object 124, the time the social object 124 was created, the
location where the social object 124 was created, the IP address
from where the social object 124 was created, etc.). The
identification data 126 may also provide the descriptive
information about the context, the quality, the condition, and/or
the number of characteristics of the underlying data (e.g., of the
social object 124), according to one embodiment. According to
another embodiment, the identification data 126 may also include
the number of attributes such as the date and a number of time
stamps associated with the social object 124.
[0140] In one embodiment, the curated content system 100 may
determine that the social object 124 is associated with the page
1500 in the curated content system 100 using the tracking module
208 (see FIG. 2). The tracking module 208 may conduct a relevancy
match 1504 between the identification data 126 associated with the
social object 124 and at least a portion of the content 1502 of the
page 1500. Stated otherwise, the higher the relevancy match 1504
may be between the identification data 126 and the content 1502,
the higher the probability the social object 124 may be associated
with the page 1500.
[0141] FIG. 15 also shows the social object 124 being republished
adjacent to the portion of the content 1502 of the page 1500,
according to one embodiment. In one embodiment, once the social
object 124 has been associated with the page 1500, the republishing
module 210 may communicate with the processor 212 (see FIG. 2) to
automatically republish the social object 124 adjacent to the
content 1502 of the page 1500. This may involve embedding the
social object 124 onto the page 1500, adjacent to at least a
portion of the content 1502, in the curated content system 100.
[0142] FIG. 15 also shows how the page 1500 may be created.
According to one embodiment, the different user 1512, with the
social media account 1516 of the third-party service 1518 may
create the page 1500 through a clipping action 1508 and/or a
reposting action 1510 of the number of other social objects 1514
arranged in the page 1500. Aforementioned actions may include
clipping the number of social objects 1514 from the number of
disparate media sources 1202, 1204, 1206, and/or 1208 (e.g. the
news site and/or the blog site) onto the page 1500 of the curated
content system 100, and/or reposting 1510 the number of social
objects 1516 from disparate pages within the curated content system
100 onto the page 1500, according to one embodiment. Stated
differently, the page 1500 may be created by the different user
1512 by arranging the number of social objects 1516 from a number
of other media sources 1202, 1204, 1206, and/or 1208 and/or from
various pages within the curated content system 100 onto the page
1500 of the curated content system 100, according to one
embodiment.
[0143] Reference is now made to FIG. 16, which shows the estimated
branding value 1600 being calculated based on the republishing of
the social object 124 adjacent to at least a portion of the content
1502 of the page 1500, according to one embodiment. FIG. 16 also
shows an interaction 1602 on a republished social object 124 being
measured, and a debit 1614 being applied to a financial account
1612 of the user 122.
[0144] According to one embodiment, the budget advertising module
222 (see FIG. 2) within the curated content system 100 may
automatically calculate the estimated branding value 1600 of the
social object 124 based on the republishing of the social object
124 onto the page 1500.
[0145] According to one embodiment, the interaction module 224 (see
FIG. 2) may measure an interaction 1602 on the social object 124
adjacent to at least a portion of the content 1502 of the page
1500. The interaction 1602, according to FIG. 16, may be at least
one of a click-through action 1604, a "like" action 1606, the
reposting action 1510, a commenting action 1608, and/or a sharing
action 1610, according to one embodiment. In various embodiments,
the click-through action 1604 may be a simple click on the social
object 124 so as to reveal a number of contents of the social
object 124 in further detail. The "like" action 1606 may involve
the clicking of a "like" icon on the social object 124 that may
increase a cumulative "like" count which represents a total number
of "like" actions 1606 from the number of users 122. It may be
appreciated that the "like" action 1606 may be similar to a number
of "like" features on a number of other media sources 702 (e.g. the
Youtube.RTM. site and/or the Facebook.RTM. site). The reposting
action 1510 may involve posting the number of other social objects
1514 to the page 1500 on which the social object 124 is
republished, and/or posting the social object 124 onto another page
1702 of the curated content system 100. The commenting action 1608
may involve the user 122 submitting commentary through a
pre-rendered text box associated with the social object 124, and
adjacent to previously submitted commentary by a number of
different users 1512, and within a predetermined
character-limitation. The sharing action 1610 may involve sharing
the social object 124, and/or an Internet link to the social object
124, to a disparate media source 702 (e.g. the Facebook.RTM. site,
Reddit.RTM., the Twitter.RTM. site). The social object 124 may
include a series of icons corresponding to a number of media
sources 702 adjacent to it, such that a click-through action 1604
on a number of the icons will share the social object 124 to a
corresponding website (one of the media sources 702), according to
one embodiment.
[0146] According to one embodiment, the finance module 226 may
communicate with the interaction module 224 and the budget
advertising module 222 (see FIG. 2) to debit 1614 a financial
account 1612 associated with the user 122 based on the interaction
1602 measured by the interaction module 224. According to one
embodiment, the amount debited to the financial account 1612 of the
user 122 may depend on the estimated branding value 1600 assessed
to the social object 124 based on the republishing of the social
object 124 to the curated content system 100. Stated differently, a
higher estimated branding value 1600 assessed to the social object
124 based on the republishing to the curated content system 100 may
result in a higher debit 1614 charged to the financial account 1612
of the user 122. Conversely, a lower estimated branding value 1600
assessed to the social object 124 may result in a lower debit 1614
charged to the financial account 1612 of the user 122.
[0147] According to another embodiment, a higher rate of
interaction 1602 may yield a higher rate debit 1614 to the
financial account 1612 of the user 122. Stated differently, the
financial account 1612 may debit 1614 at a higher rate if a high
rate of interaction 1602 is measured. Conversely, if there is
little interaction 1602 with the social object 124, a smaller debit
1614 may be applied to the financial account 1612 of the user 122.
The debit 1614 to the financial account 1612 of the user 122 after
each interaction 1602 may be based on the estimated branding value
1600. According to one or more embodiments, the estimated branding
value 1600 may affect the debit 1614 to the financial account 1612
of the user 122, and the frequency of interactions 1602 on the
social object 124 may affect the frequency with which the financial
account 1612 of the user 122 is debited 1614.
[0148] Reference is now made to FIG. 17 which shows the social
object 124 being republished to a plurality of pages 1702A-N,
wherein a number of pages n in which the social object 124 is
republished is proportional to a budget 1700 of the user 122, in
one embodiment.
[0149] According to one embodiment, the promotion module 228 may
communicate with the tracking module 208, the republishing module
210, the processor 212, the budget advertising module 222, and/or
the finance module 226 (see FIG. 2) to republish the social object
124 onto the plurality of pages 1702A-N, wherein the number of
pages n to which the social object 124 is republished is
proportional to the budget 1700 of the user 122. As described in
previous embodiments, the tracking module 208 may associate the
social object 124 to the page 1500 based on a relevancy match 1504
between the identification data 126 and at least the portion of the
content 1502 of the page 1500. When communicating with the
promotion module 228 to republish the social object 124 onto the
plurality of pages 1702A-N, the tracking module 208 may need to
associate the social object 124 to the plurality of pages 1702A-N.
Stated otherwise, the tracking module 208 may need to perform a
plurality of relevancy matches 1504 wherein the identification data
126 of the social object 124 may be matched to a content 1710A-N of
the plurality of pages 1702A-N. Once the tracking module 208 has
matched the social object 124 to the plurality of pages 1702A-N,
the promotion module 228 may communicate with the republishing
module 210 and the processor 212 to publish the social object 124
into the plurality of pages 1702A-N, wherein the number of pages n
in which the social object 124 is republished is proportional to
the budget 1700 of the user 122, according to one embodiment.
[0150] According to one embodiment, once the social object 124 has
been republished onto the plurality of pages 1702A-N by the
promotion module 228, the republishing module 210, and/or the
processor 212, the budget advertising module 222 may calculate the
estimated branding value 1600 based on each republishing to each of
the plurality of pages 1702A-N, wherein the estimated branding
value 1600 may be unique to the republishing on each of the
plurality of pages 1702A-N. According to another embodiment, once
the social object 124 has been republished into the plurality of
pages 1702A-N, the interaction module 224 may measure an
interaction 1602 on the social object 124 in each of the plurality
of pages 1702A-N. The finance module 226 may debit 1614 the
financial account 1612 of the user 122 based on the interaction
1602 on the social object 124 on each of the plurality of pages
1702A-N. Stated otherwise, the budget advertising module 222, the
interaction module 224, and the finance module 226 may interact
with the social object 124 on each of the plurality of pages
1702A-N within the curated content system 100, wherein the budget
advertising module 222 calculates the estimated branding value 1600
based on each republishing of the social object 124 to each of the
plurality of pages 1702A-N, the interaction module 224 measures the
interaction 1602 on the social object 124 in each of the plurality
of pages 1702A-N, and the finance module 226 debits 1614 the
financial account 1612 of the user 122 based on each interaction
1602 on the social object 124 in each of the plurality of pages
1702A-N, according to one embodiment.
[0151] Reference is now made to FIG. 18, which further describes a
number of characteristics of the social object 124. According to
one embodiment, the social object 124 may be a news item, 1800, a
viewpoint commentary item 1806, and/or a social commentary item
1820. The news item 1800 may originate with a commercial enterprise
1802 that seeks to create awareness around a brand 1804. The
viewpoint commentary item 1806 may be expressed by an individual
promoter 1816. The individual promoter 1816 may be an advocate of a
political viewpoint 1808, a social viewpoint 1810, a community
viewpoint 1812, and/or a personal viewpoint 1814. The political
viewpoint 1808 may be a commentary on any U.S. and/or international
situation, issue, and/or phenomenon. Some examples are the Arab
uprising, Syrian civil war, U.S. elections, gay rights, etc. The
social viewpoint 1810 may be a commentary on any social situation,
issue, and/or phenomenon. Some examples are pop-culture, fashion,
health and living, art, etc. The community viewpoint 1812 may be a
commentary on any community situation, issue, and/or phenomenon
that may be specific to a community (e.g. a town, a city, a county,
etc.). Some examples are an information and/or a discussion on
local events, community forums, community concerns and issues,
community politics, etc. The personal viewpoint 1814 may be a
commentary that expresses the personal viewpoint 1814 of an
individual promoter 1816. According to one embodiment, the social
commentary item 1820 may be of the commercial enterprise 1802
and/or the individual promoter 1816 seeking to create awareness
around the brand 1804 and a brand 1818 of the commercial enterprise
1802 and/or the individual promoter 1816, respectively.
[0152] Although the present embodiments have been described with
reference to specific example embodiments, it will be evident that
various modifications and changes may be made to these embodiments
without departing from the broader spirit and scope of the various
embodiments. For example, the various devices, modules, analyzers,
generators, etc. described herein may be enabled and operated using
hardware circuitry (e.g., CMOS based logic circuitry), firmware,
software and/or any combination of hardware, firmware, and/or
software (e.g., embodied in a machine readable medium). For
example, the various electrical structure and methods may be
embodied using transistors, logic gates, and electrical circuits
[e.g., application specific integrated (ASIC) circuitry and/or in
Digital Signal Processor (DSP) circuitry].
[0153] Particularly, the tracking module 208, the notification
module 214, and all of the remaining number of modules of FIGS.
1-18 may be enabled using software and/or using transistors, logic
gates, and electrical circuits (e.g., ASIC) such as a security
circuit, a recognition circuit, a tactile pattern circuit, an
association circuit, a store circuit, a transform circuit, an
initial state circuit, an unlock circuit, a deny circuit, a
determination circuit, a permit circuit, a user circuit, a region
circuit, and other circuits.
[0154] FIG. 6 may indicate a personal computer and/or a data
processing system in which one or more operations disclosed herein
may be performed. The processor 602 (may be a microprocessor, a
state machine, an application specific integrated circuit, a field
programmable gate array, etc. Some examples are an Intel.RTM.
Pentium.RTM. processor, 620 MHz ARM 1176, etc. The main memory 604
may be a dynamic random access memory and/or a primary memory of a
computer system.
[0155] The static memory 606 may be a hard drive, a flash drive,
and/or an other memory information associated with the data
processing system. The bus 608 may be an interconnection between
various circuits and/or structures of the data processing system.
The video display 610 may provide a graphical representation of an
information on the data processing system. The alpha-numeric input
device 612 may be a keypad, a keyboard, a virtual keypad of a
touchscreen and/or any other input device of text (e.g., a special
device to aid the physically handicapped).
[0156] The cursor control device 614 may be a pointing device such
as a mouse. The drive unit 616 may be the hard drive, a storage
system, and/or other longer term storage subsystem. The signal
generation device 618 may be a bios and/or a functional operating
system of the data processing system. The network interface device
620 may be a device that performs interface functions such as code
conversion, protocol conversion and/or buffering required for a
communication 810 to and from the network 626. The machine readable
medium 622 may provide instructions on which any of the methods
disclosed herein may be performed. The instructions 624 may provide
the source code and/or a data code to the processor 602 to enable
any one or more operations disclosed herein.
[0157] In addition, it will be appreciated that the various
operations, processes, and methods disclosed herein may be embodied
in a machine-readable medium and/or a machine accessible medium
compatible with the data processing system (e.g., a computer
system), and may be performed in any order (e.g., including using
means for achieving the various operations). Accordingly, the
specification and drawings are to be regarded in an illustrative
rather than a restrictive sense.
[0158] Furthermore, it will also be appreciated that the present
invention may have utility for online publishing tasks, according
to one or more embodiments. According to one embodiment, the
original content 110 may be published and distributed via the
Internet. Such online publishing may also be known as electronic
publishing which may include the digital publication of the
original content 110 and may also include the electronic publishing
of e-books and electronic articles and the development of digital
libraries and catalogues. According to one embodiment, a published
information may be available for use over the number of computer
networks (e.g., the public wide area network 106) and the published
information may come from a number of other media sources (e.g.,
books and/or magazines) and may be designed specifically for
computer delivery.
[0159] For example, Joe (based in New York City, United States) may
want to publish an online news story about the current situation in
Libya involving the unrest brought on by widespread anti-government
protests. Joe may know and/or follow (on social media sources 702)
several Libyan citizens (Ali and Ahmed for example) who may be
armed with laptops and digital video cameras. Ali and Ahmed may use
Twitter.RTM., Facebook.RTM., and/or any of the other media sources
702 to post status updates and feeds about the situation on the
ground in Libya. They may also digitally record a situation on the
ground that may, hypothetically speaking, involve women and
children being abused by the military police. They may then post
this video on YouTube.RTM. (reference media sources 702). Joe on
the other hand, may want to use social media content created by
both Ali and Ahmed to publish his own news story. Joe may want to
use Ali and Ahmed as his "source" for the news story and may want
to use their social media content to show how Joe's sources may be
attributed to Ali and Ahmed for credibility.
[0160] In addition, Joe's news story (containing snippets of social
media content created by Ali, Ahmed and other persons) may be
picked up by other media and social media websites. Ali and Ahmed's
social media content may be assigned a page rank 1308. If Ali's
content (as incorporated by Joe in his news story) is re-used by
other media websites and/or news organizations more often than
Ahmed's social media content (based on a page rank 1308), Ali may
be compensated financially through the financial account 1612 for
being the primary source in Joe's story and for taking the risk to
document atrocities that may be occurring on the ground in Libya.
In addition, Ali's credibility 1306 as a primary source on the
ground in Libya may be attributed and confirmed with identification
meta-data 108 that is present in Ali's social media content. This
identification meta-data 108 may provide real time information
about the timeline of event, the location of event, date of the
event, and other geographical indications (reference temporal data
of subsequent publishers 302) that may add credibility 1306 and
reliability to any of Ali's future social media content covering
further events on the ground in Libya and/or elsewhere.
[0161] Joe on the other hand may not need to leave New York City in
order to communicate and collaborate with Ali and Ahmed (as opposed
to the traditional new gatherer who may have to fly to Libya and
track down Ali and/or Ahmed in person). Ali and Ahmed may become
regular contributors and sources to Joe's news stories. In
addition, since Joe may have a copyright in his original online
publication of original content 110, he may be compensated by other
news organizations if they decide to re-publish Joe's story, while
at the same time increasing the credibility 1306 and exposure of
Ali, Joe's local collaborator on the ground in Libya. Ali may be
considered the first publisher 114 of his original content 110 and
Joe may be considered the subsequent publisher 116 of his news
story (which may be called the "other work of authorship" 112).
Re-publishing of Ali's original content multiple times by different
organizations across different platforms may add to the credibility
1306 of Ali and Joe as reputable publishers and creators of
original content 110. Such a source attribution (identifying Ali
through identification meta-data 108) of embedded content 304
(Ali's on the ground information gathering posted on social media
sources 702) may result in a collaborative and a powerful way in
which social media sources 702 may be utilized to incentivize and
drive online publication and at the same time may provide a way for
publishers (online and/or otherwise) to harvest social media
technologies to empower original content 110 and first publishers
114 across the world.
[0162] In another example, a user 122, John, may want to keep
up-to-date and inform others on the 2012 Presidential election. He
may create a page 1500 by aggregating a collection of social
objects 124 (e.g., at least one of a news article, blog post,
picture, video, etc.) that may provide news and/or opinions on the
election, the candidates, and/or the issues. He may create this
page 1500 by collecting these social objects 124 from various other
media sources 702 (e.g., a news site, a blog site, Youtube.RTM.,
Facebook.RTM., Twitter.RTM., etc.), and reposting 1510 them to a
page 1500, wherein the content 1502 of the page 1500 may be the
various social objects 124 (e.g., pictures, videos, articles, etc.)
that he has collected. For example, he may post a video using the
reposting action 1510 where one candidate voices his stance on a
particular issue, a news article reporting one candidate's
political gaffe, and/or a blog post criticizing one candidate over
a particular speech he made.
[0163] Another user 122, Peter, a user of a disparate media source
702 (e.g., a news site and/or Facebook.RTM.), may have on that site
his own social object 124 (e.g., a news article and/or a blog
post). This social object 124 may also provide news and/or opinions
on the 2012 Presidential election. If Peter's social media account
120 associated with that site is linked to the curated content
system 100, the social object 124 may be automatically republished
onto the page 1500 of the curated content system 100, if the social
object 124 is relevant to the content 1502 of the page 1500. For
example, once Peter's social media account 120 is linked to the
curated content system 100, his news article, which may provide an
individual's predictions on the outcome of the election, may be
automatically republished onto the page 1500. Peter, as an
individual and/or as a representative of a commercial enterprise,
may have a particular disposition towards the election. For
example, he may support one candidate over the other. He may also
have a particular disposition towards a certain issue and/or
policy. By republishing the social object 124 onto the page 1500,
he seeks to raise awareness to his particular disposition. Peter
may also have a particular brand that he seeks to promote, and may
republish the social object 124 so as to raise awareness of the
brand.
[0164] Peter's financial account 1612 may be debited 1614 depending
on how many pages 1500 his social object 124 is republished, too.
For example, there may be a plurality of pages 1702A-N discussing
the candidates' stances on abortion. Peter's article, blog post,
video, etc. relating his view and/or interest on the issue may be
republished onto each of those pages 1702A-N, and his financial
account 1612 debited 1614 accordingly.
[0165] Once Peter's social object 124 (e.g., article, blog post,
video, etc.) is republished onto a page 1500, a plurality of
different users 1512 may choose to interact with it. They may
click-through 1604 on the social object 124 so as to view its
content 1502, "like" 1606 the social object 124 in a manner similar
to Facebook.RTM. and/or Youtube.RTM., repost 1510 it to another
page 1702A-N, comment 1608 on it, and/or share 1610 it to another
website. Peter's financial account 1612 may be debited 1614 a
particular dollar amount which is calculated according to a
measurement of the various interactions.
[0166] As such, by promoting the social object 124 onto various
pages 1702A-N, and by encouraging interaction with the social
object 124, Peter seeks to raise awareness about the social object
124. For example, he may seek to raise awareness for his brand, to
raise awareness for his opinion on a particular candidate of the
election by republishing blog and/or opinion articles, and/or to
raise awareness for a particular issue by republishing news,
scientific, and/or academic articles about that issue.
[0167] Although the present embodiments have been described with
reference to specific example embodiments, it will be evident that
various modifications may be made to these embodiments without
departing from the broader spirit and scope of the various
embodiments. Also, for example, the various mobile devices
described herein may not necessarily be inside a vehicle. Further,
for example, the various devices and modules described herein may
be enabled and operated using hardware circuitry, firmware,
software or any combination of hardware, firmware, and software
(e.g., embodied in a machine readable medium).
[0168] In addition, it will be appreciated that the various
operations, processes, and methods disclosed herein may be embodied
in a machine-readable medium and/or a machine accessible medium
compatible with a data processing system (e.g., computer devices),
and may be performed in any order (e.g., including means for
achieving the various operations). Accordingly, the specification
and the drawings are regarded in an illustrative rather than a
restrictive sense.
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