WO2000004674A1 - Referrer-based system for try/buy electronic software distribution - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to electronic content distribution.
- Another such successful model is an "associates program" of a type popularized by the Amazon.com bookseller site.
- An associate someplace on the associate's Web site, mentions a recommended book and makes a link to the bookseller's catalog page for the book.
- the associate automatically begins earmng referral fees for sales generated by these links. While some associate sites may be relatively obscure, other associate sites, such as on-line magazines, may be heavily trafficked.
- the identify of the referrer may be embedded in the link.
- the bookseller's Web site receives the link, it extracts the identity of the referrer and takes appropriate action to ensure that credit is given to the referrer. This action occurs immediately upon click through.
- ESD electronic software distribution
- Buy /Try may follow a pay-then-download model or a download-then-pay model.
- the Try /Buy approach is clearly favored by software purchasers and offers advantages to software publishers as well.
- Buy/Try technology is relatively straightforward, Try /Buy technology is considerably more complex, with purchase occurring at any time within a trial period (e.g.
- the present invention makes possible an associates program for electronic content distribution by providing a mechanism whereby a referrer may be identified at the time of purchase in a download-then-pay system.
- an identifier or marker is added to the electronic content at the time of download.
- Merchant and purchase location information may also be added.
- a commerce module retrieves the identifier and presents it to the merchant server.
- the commerce module may also form part of the download or may originate from another source.
- the identifier may be used for various purposes. For example, the identifier may be used, directly or indirectly, to identify a referrer, to whom a referral fee is then credited.
- the identifier may be used to look up offer information, since the price at the time of purchase may be different than the offer price at the time of download.
- the invention is applicable not only to Try /Buy software distribution but more generally to download-then-pay electronic content distribution and rental programs.
- Figure 1 is a conceptual diagram of a BOB to be dynamically branded at time of download
- Figure 2 is a functional block diagram representing a download transaction
- Figure 3 is a functional block diagram representing a purchase transaction
- Figure 4 is a functional block diagram representing a download transaction in accordance with another embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 1 a conceptual diagram is shown of electronic content modified in accordance with one aspect of the present invention for electronic distribution in the context of an associates program of the type described.
- the electronic content is assumed to have added to it a wrapper that in some manner controls access to the electronic content.
- the wrapper may take any of numerous forms.
- To the wrapper is added additional commerce information.
- the present invention may be applied to various types of ESD mechanisms.
- One such mechanism is a multi-tier Try /Buy ESD mechanism described more fully in U.S. Patent Application 08/921,394 filed on August 29, 1997, entitled MULTI-TIER ELECTRONIC SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTION, incorporated herein by reference.
- An important feature of a multi-tier ESD system is that commerce information be made available to channel partners outside a product file (e.g., a setup file set) that contains the electronic content, to allow information to be readily added. Since the original product file makes no provision for commerce information to be added, the commerce information must be added to the product download (stored, for example, in a "license information file,” or LIF).
- an executable setup file may be added that executes after product download and stores the commerce information in a well-known place from which it may later be retrieved and interpreted.
- a secondary executable setup file functions as a wrapper that surrounds a setup file set containing an original executable setup file.
- a mechanism such as a browser plug-in or similar resident program may reside on the user machine to detach and store the commerce information such that it may later be retrieved.
- the product download may be readily modified, for example either by simply adding extra bytes onto the end of the file or by including an empty field within the file that is later filled.
- the information added to the file may include a referrer identifying information received during a referral from a Web site, or may include a transaction-specific identifier that may be used to access a database in which various transaction-specific information items are stored, e.g., referrer, offer information, etc.
- the format of the product download is known to and controlled by the ESD technology provider. Compatibility issues are therefore avoided. Marking the software product with the identity of the referrer ensures that credit is given to the referrer when and if the software product is purchased.
- product files for one software product or thousands of software products, are stored at a merchant download site.
- An end user may download a software product by visiting the merchant site directly.
- links to the merchant site are provided at other (possibly very numerous) sites. Such links cause download of the software program from the merchant site to the end user.
- the source of the link i.e., the identity of the referrer
- identification information is added to the product file, to include referrer information and, optionally, variable information about the location of a purchase Web site, purchase mechanism, etc. (The latter information, however, may already be included in the download and may not need to be added.)
- an electronic commerce is added to the product file, to include referrer information and, optionally, variable information about the location of a purchase Web site, purchase mechanism, etc. (The latter information, however, may already be included in the download and may not need to be added.
- EC EC module initiates a purchase transaction with the merchant server.
- the location of the payment processor, the transaction process, the "merchant or record" for credit-card clearing, etc. may have been part of an EC -prepared product, or may have been added dynamically as a result of the referral.
- the identifying information is sent to the payment processor.
- the identifying information may be used in any desired manner by the transaction processing system. For example, the identifying information may affect only referral accounting, may affect only the present purchase transaction, or may affect both. Typically, the identifying information will be used to give credit to the appropriate referrer and may also be used to retrieve offer information that governs the price of the purchase transaction.
- FIG 4 in a more general embodiment of the invention, as many as six or more servers— or as few as a single server— may be involved in a transaction.
- each separate function has been illustrated as being performed by a separate server. However, the functions may be combined in various ways.
- Figure 4 shows in addition a product server, an assembly server, a payment processor and, optionally, a clearinghouse.
- the transaction begins with the occurrence of a referral from a Web site 401.
- the referral causes deliver of content (403) and deliver of identifying information (405) to an end user machine 406.
- electronic payment is received (507) from the end user machine, and identifying information is received (409) from the end user machine.
- the identifying information is used to credit the referrer.
- a transaction may be divided into three phases, an assembly phase, an installation phase, and a purchase phase.
- a transaction begins with a link within a Web page of a referring site being clicked on.
- referrer information is sent to the assembly server, causing an assembly script to be run.
- the assembly script retrieves a corresponding product from the product server and combines with the product referral information and possibly other information.
- the result may be an executable program or may be a BOB ("Bag of Bits") that may later be transformed into an executable program or may remain as non-executable content.
- the user initiates installation of the product.
- Installation may be performed by an installer as previously described, in which case installation is typically initiated by clicking on the download.
- the user may run a local program that is registered with run-time software—e.g., the operating system or browser— to install a BOB.
- run-time software e.g., the operating system or browser
- the referral information is read and stored in a suitable place on the end user machine.
- an EC client may be installed on the end user machine to allow the software to be purchased, or such a client may already exist, for example as part of the aforementioned local registered program.
- the EC client may insist on immediate payment or it may periodically inform the end user of the time remaining during which the product may be used without purchase and give the user an opportunity to purchase the product, e.g., by clicking on a Buy button, or it may make the product available for rental.
- the EC client sends the referral information previously stored on the end user machine to the payment processor.
- the payment processor receives the referral information, it automatically credits an account of the referrer.
- the referral information may also be sent to a clearinghouse for auditing purposes.
- the EC client may send the referrer information to a clearinghouse upon payment.
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