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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2005
Nathan P. Myhrvold, Medina, WA (US);
Peter N. Detkin, Los Altos, CA (US);
Gregory D. Gorder, Seattle, WA (US);
Edward K. Y. Jung, Bellevue, WA (US);
Nathan P. Myhrvold, Medina, WA (US);
Peter N. Detkin, Los Altos, CA (US);
Gregory D. Gorder, Seattle, WA (US);
Edward K. Y. Jung, Bellevue, WA (US);
IVP Holdings I, LLC, Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and business processes for the fair allocation and sharing of future revenues from the licensing of IP assets associated with to a plurality of heterogeneous entities are provided. Example embodiments provide a bundled and tiered revenue allocation scheme 'BTRAS,' which can be used to dynamically determine allocations to beneficiaries based upon attributes of the licensing transaction and the contribution of each asset to the transaction. Transaction sensitivity weighting factors can be used to measure the contribution of each asset. This abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an abstract, and it is submitted with the intention that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.