Inventors:
Ryan Hardin - Houston TX, US
Andrew Hill - Houston TX, US
International Classification:
G06Q 30/02
Abstract:
A method assigns token requirements to service subscriptions in a service platform, such as a service platform containing entities, such as end-users, contacts, sponsors, membership associations or databases, or a database associating, referencing, or containing a plurality of said entities or databases. The operator of the service platform establishes customization factors and maintains records reserving particular data services associated with token requirements for delivery to entities. In addition, customization factors are determined, at least in part, from values representing the relative quantity of, or representing values or information associated with, objects in a database or data set or the like. Token requirements associated with data services or service subscriptions or contracts are calculated from one or more formulas utilizing customization factors. Sponsorships associated with the entities can be accepted by the service platform. Based at least in part on the acceptance, the service platform can apply one or more credits toward the fulfillment of token requirements. An entity can be provided a data service or a service subscription or contract based on a relationship with a sponsorship such that an entity assigned a subscription or assigned to an interest in a subscription having a token requirement fulfilled, in whole or in part, as a result of applying credit from a sponsorship will receive services related to the subscription. The method is particularly useful in enhancing the accessibility of services and/or service features for entities in a network, such as membership associations or social networks, who can benefit, or whose end-users can benefit, with an application of tokens related to those services and/or service features.
