Google Inc.

Akash Hasmukh Parikh

John Thomas

Prabhu Balasubramanian

Robert Lee Thompson

Natalia Ann Cohen Fisher

Shishir Samir Mehrotra

An internet-based content platform that includes subscribable channels is provided. The internet-based content platform provides channels to end users. Prices are defined for including one or more channels in one or more composite channels. The prices may be provided to channel curators associated with the one or more composite channels and the one or more channel curators may accept or reject the prices for including the one or more channels in the one or more composite channels.

Method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for managing pricing of channels included in composite channels of an internet-based content platform

An internet-based content platform that includes subscribable channels is provided. The internet-based content platform provides channels to end users. The internet-based content platform allows a channel curator to create a paid channel and may include a plurality of media items including at least one paid media item and at least one free media item, in the paid channel. The internet-based content platform may also allow a channel curator to define a subscription fee and a duration for a subscription to the paid channel.

Managing channels in an internet-based content platform

An internet-based content platform for providing subscription levels to channels are described. The internet-based content platform presents to an end user, a channel that includes a plurality of media items, a list of types of access to the plurality of media items, and a plurality of subscription levels associated with different subscription fees for different types of access. The channel is one of a plurality of channels of an internet-based content platform. The internet-based content platform receives a selection of one of the plurality of subscription levels for the channel. The internet-based content platform records the selected subscription level of the end user for the channel. The internet-based content platform provides a type of access to the plurality of media items of the channel for the end user according to the recorded subscription level of the end user for the channel.

Subscription levels in an internet-based content platform

An internet-based content platform that includes subscribable channels is provided. The internet-based content platform provides channels to end users. The internet-based content platform allows a channel curator to identify a paid channel where the paid channel is associated with a plurality of media items. The internet-based content platform allows a channel curator to indicate a subscriber set of advertising attributes for the paid channel and a non-subscriber set of advertising attributes for the paid channel. The internet-based content platform associates the subscriber set of advertising attributes and the non-subscriber set of advertising attributes with the paid channel.

Managing advertising attributes for channels in an internet-based content platform

A content platform that includes subscribable paid channels is provided. The content platform receives, via a user interface, a request of an end user to subscribe to a paid channel. The paid channel is one of a plurality of channels of the content platform and has dynamically changed content. The content platform requests, via the user interface, end user information that includes payment information of the end user. The content platform receives the end user information and creates a subscription to the paid channel for the end user based on the end user information. The content platform provides, via the user interface, access to the content of the paid channel to the end user at substantially the same time as creating the subscription for the end user.

Consuming paid media of a content platform

An internet-based content platform that includes subscribable channels is provided. The internet-based content platform provides channels to end users. The internet-based content platform receives a selection of a paid channel from the list of channels from the end user. The paid channel includes a plurality of media items including at least one paid media item and at least one free media item. The internet-based content platform receives a selection of one of the plurality of media items from the end user. The internet-based content platform determines whether the selected media item is a free item or a paid item. When the selected media item is a paid item, the internet-based content platform requests subscription information of the end user. When the selected media item is a free item, the internet-based content platform provides the at least one free media item to the end user.

Subscriptions to paid channels of an internet-based content platform

An internet-based content platform that includes subscribable paid channels is provided. The internet-based content platform receives, via a user interface, a request of an end user to subscribe to a paid channel. The paid channel is one of a plurality of channels of the internet-based content platform and has dynamically changed content. The internet-based content platform requests, via the user interface, end user information that includes payment information of the end user. The internet-based content platform receives the end user information and creates a subscription to the paid channel for the end user based on the end user information. The internet-based content platform provides, via the user interface, access to the content of the paid channel to the end user at substantially the same time as creating the subscription for the end user.

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Akash Hasmukh Parikh