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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2012
Marc Silbey, Mercer Island, WA (US);
John Crocker, Valencia, CA (US);
Michael Vanloon, Kirkland, WA (US);
Lane Merrifield, Kelowna, CA (US);
Paul Cutsinger, Redmond, WA (US);
Christopher Heatherly, Monrovia, CA (US);
Marc Silbey, Mercer Island, WA (US);
John Crocker, Valencia, CA (US);
Michael Vanloon, Kirkland, WA (US);
Lane Merrifield, Kelowna, CA (US);
Paul Cutsinger, Redmond, WA (US);
Christopher Heatherly, Monrovia, CA (US);
Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);
Abstract
There is provided a method and system for an approval based economy. The method comprises, receiving input corresponding to media content associated with a user, determining a number of approval units corresponding to the input, retrieving a user account associated with the user, and saving the approval units in the user account. The user account may include past approval units and an approval total. The approval total may account for the approval units and the past approval units, the approval units and the past approval units of active users and available media content only, or a maximum lifetime total of active users and available media content only. The approval based economy may provide new media content to users based on their respective approval total in their user account.