6,856,986 Answer collection and retrieval system governed by a pay-off meter
  Issued: February 15, 2005
  Filed: October 9, 2000
  U.S. Class: 707/1
Abstract:  The invention is a set of processes for improving the methods of a self-organizing database governed by a payoff meter process. The inventive set of processes processes enable a user who is seeking an answer not in the database to make a commitment to buy the answer if it is supplied within a period of time. A second set of processes enables a user who is seeking to supply an answer, to claim exclusive rights to supply that answer for a period of time.

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