Method for a plurality of online digital video commercials on a consecutive and non consecutive viewing pattern applied for digital music file downloading over internet

摘要

A method using TV advertising principles with some interactivity improvements, applied to the internet network domain is used to sponsor a free digital music file download by generating a sufficient amount of money which enables paying all royalties which are constituted by mechanical royalties, production royalties and recording artist royalties, giving the user a complete personal non-commercial license for the use of the digital music files he has just acquired; this process is made possible by using an algorithm to calculate the number of ads required, a process of selection of ads depending on different factors with different weighting but not limited to geographical location, event related, cyclic, targeted audience, special request; the audio file is available only after the viewing of all ads which is achieved by using a proprietary media player. This method is made possible through the support of a central internet server which includes a song database, advertising database, user database, data concerning standard copyright or specific contract-based copyright, a formula for the calculation of the number of adds required, automatic selection of advertising, and accounting process. This central database has the possibility of linking to external databases from outside partners to obtain songs or advertising, and to link to the computerized unit of the user through the internet network.

主权项

1. A distributing method for downloading song(s) to the personal computer of the end user connected to a network in a system in which a central server is the central and operations management and a series of outside partner songs sources database for downloading songs to the personal computer of the end user, and a group of agencies advertising servers for distributing advertising one by one on request to the personal computer of the end user, the method comprising the steps of:
(a) In the central server, retrieving and using from the management database 1b the end user profile in response to a request from the personal computer of the end user, querying and listing from the management database 1b all advertisements which are allowed to be distributed to the end user. (b) In the central server sending to the personal computer of the end user the list of all advertisements which are allowed to be distributed to the end user. (c) In the central server sending to the personal computer of the end user the calling address of the particular advertising server hosting the particular advertisement and its identification in response to the personal computer of the end user request of viewing content of an advertisement of his choice from the list of all advertisement received from the central server. (d) In the personal computer of the end user, after completion of the advertisement, through an overlaid arrow, sending to the central server, information for the confirming completion of this advertisement. (e) In the central computer, awaiting confirmation of completion signal from the personal computer of the end user, if no signal is received after a standard web page time out (which is a standard well known process with a most common duration of 30 minutes) the central computer ends the session with the personal computer of the end user. (f) In the central computer in response to receipt of confirmation of completion of advertisement viewing through an overlaid arrow, the central server increase the account balance in the end user profile contained within the management database 1b by the amount of the CPM of the advertisement divided by 1000 and returning to step (c) (g) In the central server sending to the personal computer of the end user, downloading information required to download requested song(s), including the calling address of the particular outside partner songs sources databases and its (their) identification(s). conditional to the value of the account balance in the end user profile contained within the management database 1b is superior or at least equal to the associate costs of the songs requested described as X+Y contained within the management database 1b, in response of a request of song(s) download from personal computer of the end user. (h) In the personal computer of the end user by receiving downloading information required, starts download from the outside partner songs sources databases, using standard and generally well known internet downloading process.