TRANSACTIONAL SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM SYSTEM AND METHOD

摘要

A transactional social media platform. The transactional social media platform includes a social graph representative of relationships within the transactional social media platform. The represented relationships include consumer users and vendor users on nodes of the transactional social media platform that might also incorporate existing social media platforms. Consumer users may access video content from vendor users at a cost based on a number of factors. Upon providing consumer user access to video content, the system automatically charges or deducts the determined base cost from a corresponding consumer user account on the transactional social media platform.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
by one or more processors associated with one or more computing devices, establishing a social graph comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the nodes, each of one of said nodes being associated with one of a plurality of users of an online social network, each connection between two nodes representing a relationship between the two nodes and establishing a degree of separation between the two nodes; by one or more of the processors, creating two user categories and grouping the plurality of users of the online social network into said two user categories: 1) vendors or vendor accounts that are configured to upload video content to the online social network, wherein upon request from the vendor to upload video content, the vendor is granted access to upload said video content; and 2) consumers or consumer accounts that are configured to prevent uploading of video content to the online social network, wherein upon request by the consumer to upload video content, said consumer is denied access to upload said video content; by one or more of the processors, determining, a price that is paid by the consumer for each of one or more video content associated with the vendor of the online social network, the vendor being associated with a first node of the plurality of nodes of the online social network; by one or more of the processors, receiving a request from the consumer of the online social network, to purchase one of said video content associated with the vendor and hosted by the online social network, the consumer being associated with a second node of the plurality of nodes; and by one or more of the processors, granting the consumer access to the requested video content; and automatically charging or deducting from an account of the consumer of the online social network, the determined price of the video content transmitted to the consumer.