Abstract: A method of valuating a plurality of digital content items including: receiving the plurality of digital content items; for each received content item: establishing a plurality of attributes from content and characteristics of the content item; establishing a lifetime indicating a span of consumers interest in the content item; producing a valuation function for calculating a market value of the content item during its lifetime by finding and ranking nearest one or more previously processed content items having the plurality of attributes with closest similarity to the plurality of attributes of the received content item, performing weighted averaging of the valuation functions produced for the nearest one or more of the previously processed content items; and adapting, using “edge cutting” adaptation, the produced valuation function to a market response reflecting behavior of the consumers in response to the market values of the content item calculated by the valuation function.

Abstract: A search engine for searching digital content items has been disclosed herein. The search engine may be utilized by one or more users to perform keywords-based search for retrieving digital content items from the World Wide Web or one or more databases in real time. The search engine includes a search bar for receiving keywords from a user for searching relevant digital content items. The search engine further includes searching modes, such as a value mode, a popularity mode, and an expert mode, that is selectable by the user to perform the search. The search engine further includes privacy modes including a private mode and a public mode. One of the privacy modes is selected by the user to set the user's privacy. The search engine may further execute the search request based on the one or more keywords, the selected searching mode, and the set user's privacy.

Abstract: A method of valuating a plurality of digital content items including: receiving the plurality of digital content items; for each received content item: establishing a plurality of attributes from content and characteristics of the content item; establishing a lifetime indicating a span of consumers interest in the content item; producing a valuation function for calculating a market value of the content item during its lifetime by finding and ranking nearest one or more previously processed content items having the plurality of attributes with closest similarity to the plurality of attributes of the received content item, performing weighted averaging of the valuation functions produced for the nearest one or more of the previously processed content items; and adapting, using “edge cutting” adaptation, the produced valuation function to a market response reflecting behavior of the consumers in response to the market values of the content item calculated by the valuation function.

Abstract: A method of valuating a plurality of digital content items and offering the valuated plurality of digital content items for sale to consumers on devices connected to a network, the method including: on a processor connected to the network receiving the plurality of digital content items; for each received content item: establishing a plurality of attributes from content and characteristics of the content item; establishing a lifetime indicating span of consumers interest in the content item; producing a valuation function for calculating a market value of the content item during its lifetime by finding and ranking nearest one or more previously processed content items having the plurality of attributes with closest similarity to the plurality of attributes of the received content item, performing weighted averaging of the valuation functions produced for the nearest one or more of the previously processed content items; and adapting, using “edge cutting” adaptation, the produced valuation function to a market

Abstract: A method of controlling access to a plurality of digital content items by a plurality of consumers on devices connected to a network, the method including: in a network browsing program on a processor connected to the network: enabling access for a first of the plurality of consumers to one or more of the plurality of digital content items via online computer software attached to the one or more of the plurality of digital content items; displaying an identifier of the one or more of the plurality of digital content items together with an image of a plurality of selectable alternatives for making payments to enable access to the one or more of the plurality of digital content items, wherein the alternatives are selected from paying at least one of money and attention; and in response to the first consumer selecting one of the alternatives, the online computer software verifying proof of work of the payment money and attention.

Abstract: A method of valuating a plurality of digital content items and offering the valuated plurality of digital content items for sale to consumers on devices connected to a network, the method including: on a processor connected to the network receiving the plurality of digital content items; for each received content item: establishing a plurality of attributes from content and characteristics of the content item; establishing a lifetime indicating span of consumers interest in the content item; producing a valuation function for calculating a market value of the content item during its lifetime by finding and ranking nearest one or more previously processed content items having the plurality of attributes with closest similarity to the plurality of attributes of the received content item, performing weighted averaging of the valuation functions produced for the nearest one or more of the previously processed content items; and adapting, using “edge cutting” adaptation, the produced valuation function to a market

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for obtaining, from a content management system, a plurality of articles and respective information for each article in the plurality of articles; obtaining, for the journalist of each article, respective metadata of the journalist, wherein the respective metadata comprises at least an influence metric of the journalist; processing, for each article, the respective information and the respective metadata of the journalist of the article as training data to train a regression model; and providing a first article and metadata of an journalist of the first article as inputs to the regression model and determining, with the regression model, using one or more computers of the content management system, an initial price of the first article.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for receiving, from a user interface running on a publisher device, a baseline price for the article; receiving, from the user interface text and metadata of the article, the metadata comprising at least a genre for the article; determining, using one or more processors at a server system, a plurality of weights from the text and the metadata; applying, at the server system, the plurality of weights to the baseline price to generate the initial price of the article; and providing the initial price from the server system to a customer device for display at the device.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for receiving, using one or more processors at a system server, a plurality of articles and respective information for each respective article of the plurality of articles, where the respective information for the respective article; repeatedly receiving, at the system server, respective parameters associated with each article, where the respective parameters include at least a history of user access to articles other than the plurality of articles, where the respective parameters are updated over time; receiving, for each of the plurality of articles, user input identifying a new genre of the respective article; and repeatedly determining, for each article, an access price for the respective article over time, where each access price is based on the respective information, the respective parameters, and the new genre.

Abstract: A computer system and method in which users remotely access a system to proffer content users can access from remote locations. The system automatically stores content together with parameters that pertain to the content and facilitate users' access, and automatically and dynamically prices access to the articles in a manner relating prices to user behavior. In one improvement, the system and method enrich the system by adding automated selection of potential providers of answers to questions that users post and an automatic selection of suitable recipients of answers to those questions, and also by adding dynamic pricing for access to the answers that may differ for different classes of access and for different times of access.

Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method that provide dynamic, essentially real time pricing of users' access to content represented by articles, which pricing varies over time with user behavior to reflect actual values that users place on access to the articles. The system includes an improvement that freezes the access price of an article for some period of time after a user selects the article to enable the user to make a purchasing decision based on the access price at a time related to the time the user selected the article, while the access price for the same article may change for other users.

Abstract: A computer system and method in which users remotely access a system to proffer content that authorized users can access from remote locations. The system automatically stores content together with parameters that pertain to the content and facilitate users' access, and automatically and dynamically prices access to the articles in a manner relating prices to user behavior. In one improvement, the system and method enrich the system by calculating subscription prices for access to specified portions of the content, where the prices differ from each other based at least on the scope of content that a user selects.

Abstract: A computer system and method in which users remotely access a system to proffer content that users can access from remote locations. The system automatically stores content together with parameters that pertain to the content and facilitate users' access, and automatically and dynamically prices access to the articles in a manner relating prices to user behavior. In one improvement, the system and method enrich the system by calculating, and updating over time with change of pertinent events, accumulated ratings for articles, authors, and/or publishers, and displaying the ratings to users to aid in the selection of articles matching the user's interests.

Abstract: A computer system and method that expand a user's access to content matching the user's interests, in an environment of providing dynamic, essentially real time pricing of users' access to content, which pricing varies over time with user behavior to reflect actual values that users place on access to the answers.

Abstract: A computer system and method that expand a user's access to content matching the user's interests, in an environment of providing dynamic, essentially real time pricing of users' access to content, which pricing varies over time with user behavior to reflect actual values that users place on access to the answers. To expand a user's access to content, the system automatically searches and analyzes content on websites that are outside the system for additional content that matches the user's search queries or other expression of interest, and offers the user access to the additional content that may be free or at prices determined by the outside websites and/or the system.

Abstract: A computer system and method in which users remotely access a system to proffer content that users can access from remote locations. The system automatically stores content together with parameters that pertain to the content and facilitate users' access, and automatically and dynamically prices access to the articles in a manner relating prices to user behavior. In one improvement, the system and method enrich the system by adding automated selection of potential providers of answers to questions that users post and an automatic selection of suitable recipients of answers to those questions, and also by adding dynamic pricing for access to the answers that may differ for different classes of access and for different times of access.

Abstract: Computer-implemented systems and methods that provide dynamic, essentially real time pricing of users' access to content represented by articles where the pricing varies over time with user behavior to reflect the actual values that users place at any point in time on access to the articles.

Abstract: An apparatus for and method of acquiring, processing and routing data contained in a graphical user interface window is described. The data contained in a window selected by the user is captured by an acquisition unit and stored in a data buffer. The data, whether string data or bitmapped graphics data, is stored in the data buffer in standard graphical user interface text and/or bitmap format. A user may mark a portion of the text or bitmap graphics contained in the selected window. The processed data is then routed to one or more output devices. Output devices may include, for example, files, printers, windows, electronic mail services and operating system temporary buffers. The method of acquiring and marking data in a selected window is disclosed.

Abstract: An apparatus for and method of acquiring, processing and routing data contained in a graphical user interface window. The data contained in a window selected by the user is captured by an acquisition unit and stored in a data buffer. The data, whether string data or bitmapped graphics data, is stored in the data buffer in standard graphical user interface text and/or bitmapped format. A user may designate a portion of the acquired data to be processed by a processor. The processor may utilize one or more processing components to add functionality to an application associated with the graphical user interface window selected by the user. The processed data is then routed to one or more output devices. Output devices may include, for example, files, printers, windows, electronic mail services and operating system temporary buffers. Also disclosed is a method of retrieving the handle of a window from its device context.

Abstract: An apparatus for and method of acquiring, processing and routing data contained in a graphical user interface window is described. The data contained in a window selected by the user is captured by an acquisition unit and stored in a data buffer. The data, whether string data or bitmapped graphics data, is stored in the data buffer in standard graphical user interface text and/or bitmap format. A user may mark a portion of the text or bitmap graphics contained in the selected window. The processed data is then routed to one or more output devices. Output devices may include, for example, files, printers, windows, electronic mail services and operating system temporary buffers. The method of acquiring and marking data in a selected window is disclosed.