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Equity participation of the users of a social media

[Category : - ELECTRONICS- SOFTWARES- BUSINESS METHODS]
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Social media has become a significant part of the live of most people. According to recent survey, almost 11% of the world population uses one or more social media, devoting an average of 23 minutes per day; in countries such as United States, the use and involvement of the population are more important. In general, social media are owned and/or operated by commercial companies. In most cases, social media generate income via either their business or when they are sold. Usually, the users of social media do not receive anything from all these activities. The present invention relates generally to a method, system and computer program or computer programs that enable the users of a social media to participate in the profits anyhow generated by the same social media and/ or in the ownership of the same social media, and more specifically the present invention relates to one or more computer programs, a system and a method that enable to assign to the users of a social media the rights to receive a certain percentage or a fixed amount or any kind of amount or another benefit or a virtual credit or an equity participation or similar way of ownership, based on the profits anyhow generated by the activities and/or by the sale of the social media and according to certain defined internal rules and/or defined terms and conditions accepted by the users. The present invention also relates to one or more computer programs, a system and a method that enable to assign to the users of a social media an equity participation in the same social media, according to certain defined internal rules and/or defined terms and conditions accepted by the users. The present invention also relates to one or more computer programs, a system and a method that enable to share and to pay the achieved percentage or fixed amount or any kind of amount or other benefit or virtual credit or to assign an equity participation or a similar way of ownership according to the assigned rights and in the right proportion for every user.


The invention generally relates to a method, system and computer program or computer programs that enable the users of a social media to participate in the profits anyhow generated by the activities or by the sale ofthe same social media or to participate in the equity of the same social media or in any combination of equity and profits of the same social media.

There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, some of the features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features ofthe invention that will be described hereinafter.

In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment ofthe invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction or to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of the description and should not be regarded as limiting.

The method, system and computer program or computer programs of the present invention enable the users of a social media to participate in the profits anyhow generated by the activities or by the sale ofthe same socia! media, receiving a part ofthis profits as cash, virtual credit, goods or in any other reliable and proper form or to receive an equity participation in the same social media. The method, system and computer program or computer programs of the present invention also enable the users of a social media to participate in the equity of the same social media or in any combination of equity and profits of the same social media. The method, system and computer program or computer programs of the present invention overcomes the problems associated with prior art.

The method, system and computer program of the present invention provides a so called "profits management resource", based on one or more computer programs, a system and a method, that determines and assigns to every registered user of a social media the right to receive a certain percentage or a fixed amount or any kind of amount paid as cash or another benefit or a virtual credit or a good or an equity participation on the social media related to the profits achieved by the social media in a defined peri od (for example: profits generated in a financial year). In addition, the method, system and computer program of the present invention provides a so called "profits management resource", based on one or more computer programs, a system and a method, that determines and assigns to every registered user of a social media the right to receive, in case the social media is sold, a certain percentage or a fixed amount or any kind of amount paid as cash or another benefit or a virtual credit or a good or an equity participation related to the amount paid by the buyer (in cash or other) to acquire the social media or the company or the companies that own the social media or that own rights on the social media.

In addition, or alternatively, the method, system and computer program of the present invention provides a so called "profits management resource", based on one or more computer programs, a system and a method, that determines and assigns to every registered user of a social media the right to receive an equity participation in the social media based on the registration of every user in the social media and/or on the activities performed by every user in the social media. According to the present invention, the method, systern and computer program of the present invention provides a so called "profits management resource", based on one or more computer programs, a system and a method, that may determine and assign to every registered user of a social media the right to receive any combination of profits and equity of the same social media as described above.

In addition, the method, system and computer program of the present invention provides a so called "profits management resource" that uses one or more computer programs that allow to make the due payments in favor of each user, or to assign the virtual credit or other, or to ship the goods or to assign the equity participation to every user, or any combination of this activities.

Embodiments ofthe present invention use a method, included a method of business, a system and one or more computer program to define the relationships, also economical, between (a) the social media itself, (b) the users ofthe social media, (c) the company or the companies or the individuals who own the social media or who own the company or the companies that own the social media, (d) the company or the companies or the entities or the individuals that provide services or goods or financial resources or other to the social media or (e) that operate and/or run the social media or (f) who have any kind of rights in the social media and (g) every other subject or entity involved in the business related to the socia! media.


Embodiments of the present invention that use a method, system and computer program providing a so called "profits management resource" can be used to share between the users the profits or part ofthe profits generated by entities other than a socia! media, such as, as non limiting examples, phone companies, electronic transactions companies, web based companies, web based companies that sell services and/or goods and any other type of entity that requires the presence of users and that can generate revenues and/or profits through their activities or their sale. Alternatively, or in combination, embodiments of the present invention can be used, for the same purpose, to assign equity participations to the users of entities other than a social media, such as, as non limiting examples, phone companies, electronic transactions companies, web based companies and any other type of entity that requires the presence of users and that can generate revenues and/or profits through their activities or their sale.



Financial information

Interested to sale or license the patent pending or, alternativelly, to co finance the development of a social network based on the patent (www.nextmediaenterprises.com).

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