| 摘要 |
The present disclosure describes various embodiments of budgeting systems and methods for providing a computer-implemented budgeting output relating to projected royalty payments due under contracts between a media system operator and content owners. The embodiments include one or more royalty calculation rules modules (RCRMs), each RCRM including predetermined rules for determining royalty payments. An RCRM user interface configured accepts entry of inputs related to contract data and the predetermined rules. The RCRMs are capable of associating input data and predetermined rules with contracts or content owners and storing the associated data and rules. One or more user interfaces can receive and process inputs related to one or more of budgeting periods, media content, content providers, or subscribers. Further, the embodiments include a database for storing data including the RCRMs in association with data corresponding to a predetermined budgeting period. A calculation engine can access the RCRMs and utilizes the stored associated data and rules to determine a projected budget for a predetermined budgeting period. Finally, a budget output module generates the projected budget in a predetermined output format to the budget manager personnel via the budgeting system. |
