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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 24, 2018
Leaf Group Ltd., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Sean Muller, Bellevue, WA (US);
Richard Rosenblatt, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Joey C. Perez, Pacific Palisades, CA (US);
Dennis A. Ameen, Sammamish, WA (US);
Larry Fitzgibbon, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Greg Griffin, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Laurent Gherardi, Seattle, WA (US);
Jon R. Jurgens, Jr., Redondo Beach, CA (US);
Brian Havener, Bothell, WA (US);
Glenn Moran, Puyallup, WA (US);
Dean Busenbark, Kirkland, WA (US);
Mark Jones, Tacoma, WA (US);
Adam Youngers, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ewan Godley, Renton, WA (US);
Leaf Group Ltd., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention is directed to a User Publishing System (UPS) that enables both content publishing for users that share what they know in articles and enabling these users to get paid for providing the content through use of a User Compensation System (UCS). The invention enables users to create and edit content in multiple formats, from multiple sources, and in multiple languages. The system can be integrated for use with a plurality of different websites and adopt both the look and feel and the content format of each website, and/or other communication medium. Compensation may be provided to the user providing the content based on a variety of metrics.