Computer-implemented method and apparatus to allocate revenue from a derived digital component

US8290881B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• IMVU, LLC · US

Inventors

• Matt Danzig · Menlo Park, US
• William David Harvey · Palo Alto, US
• Vernon Mervin Guymon, III · Menlo Park, US
• Eric Nathan Ries · Palo Alto, US
• Marcus Gosling · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 17, 2011
• Grant date: Oct 16, 2012
• Expiry date: Mar 17, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q50/188
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A computer-implemented hierarchical revenue model to manage revenue allocations among derived product developers in a networked system. The model includes providing a first revenue value associated with a first digital component, providing a second revenue value associated with a second digital component, and combining the first revenue value with a second revenue value to produce a third revenue value associated with the second digital component, the second digital component including at least a portion, of the first digital component.