| 摘要 |
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. |
| 主权项 |
1. A method comprising:
assigning at least one service contract to an entity, wherein the entity is associated with a service platform having a plurality of entities; associating the at least one service contract with a token requirement; accepting payment for a sponsorship, wherein the sponsorship is associated with the entity; applying at least one credit from the sponsorship payment towards the fulfillment of a token requirement associated with a service contract associated with the entity with which the sponsorship is associated; determining, for a service contract having an associated token requirement to which the at least one credit has been applied, whether the token requirement for the service contract is fulfilled; and in response to a positive determination, providing, to the entity, the service contract with which the fulfilled token requirement is associated. |
