Content generation revenue sharing

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8930282-B2
Application number	US-39641306-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 31, 2006
Priority date	Mar 20, 2006
Publication date	Jan 6, 2015
Grant date	Jan 6, 2015

Abstract

Techniques are described that facilitate generating useful content based on user interactions, such as by providing an answer-providing service that facilitates interactions between users who supply questions and users who supply responses to the questions of other users, as well as using the generated content in various ways. In some situations, users are compensated for participating in interactions with the answer-providing service in various ways, including by sharing a portion of an ongoing revenue stream generated from an answer to a question with users who provided responses that are used as part of the answer. In some situations, the sharing of an ongoing revenue stream related to an answer may be split between the users who provided the responses for the answer in various manners, including based on assessed levels of expertise of those users.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method for compensating users who provide responses to questions from other users based at least in part on revenue streams from the responses, the method comprising:
under control of one or more configured computing system processors,
receiving indications of multiple questions supplied by multiple users;
for each of the questions, responding to the question by
obtaining multiple responses to the question that are provided by mult…

Assignees

• Park Joseph C
• Leong Kian Fai
• Amazon Tech Inc

Inventors

• Park Joseph C
• Leong Kian Fai

Classifications

• G06Q30/0208 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06Q30/0214 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06Q30/0235

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06Q30/0251

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06Q10/10

  Physics · mapped topic