Market-based Fact Verification Media System and Method

Abstract

The system and methods described herein provide a way for writers and publishers to stand behind individual and combined facts in their work by offering a bounty to a person who can supersede their own data in support of the fact's accuracy with better data, as measured by a pre-established fact evaluation guideline. Once sufficiently vetted by this system, facts are added to an apolitical certified fact database. Facts in the certified fact database also have a bounty upon their accuracy, however financial responsibility for the bounty is transferred to the system. Subscribers to the system may then download and use fact contained within the certified fact database to enhance their own work, while benefiting from the enhanced readership, interest and trustworthiness provided by virtue of the bounty.

What is claimed: 
     
         1 ) A system including:
 an evaluation guideline established to compare the relative strength of a first set of fact support information and a second set of fact support information;   a first visual identification feature established to identify a fact wherein the fact is associated with a first set of fact support information and disposed within informative content and has an associated bounty offered as reward to a claimant who can provide a second set of fact support information determined by the evaluation guideline to have a higher relative strength than the first set of fact support information;   a plurality of vetting counters, each counter disposed to increment the count upwards from an initial value in response to a consumer access event to the fact disposed within informative content and to decrement the count to the initial value as a function of the evaluation guideline determining the claimant provided a second set of fact support information determined by the evaluation guideline to have a higher relative strength than the first set of fact support information;   a vetting counter threshold, as measured from the initial value; and   a vetted fact database populated by written facts associated with one of the plurality of vetting counters that reached the vetting counter threshold.   
     
     
         2 ) The system of  claim 1  wherein the fact is embedded in video content and the first visual identification characteristic displays at a moment in time corresponding with presentation of the fact. 
     
     
         3 ) The system of  claim 1  further including an interface associated with the first visual indication characteristic, the interface activating an information tag including at least one of an amount of the first bounty, the set of fact support information, an author, a serial number, an adjudication history, or any combination thereof. 
     
     
         4 ) The system of  claim 3  wherein the interface further provides a claim initiation interface enabling the third party to initiate filing a claimant an effort to receive the submission of the set of bounty support information. 
     
     
         5 ) The system of  claim 3  wherein the first set of fact support information and the second set of fact support information transferred to administrator to evaluate the first set and the second set in reference to the evaluation guideline. 
     
     
         6 ) The system of  claim 3  wherein the first set of fact support information is associated with a first content provider and wherein the first content provider is enabled to select the size of the first bounty. 
     
     
         7 ) The system of  claim 3  wherein the evaluation guideline includes three outcomes, and wherein one of those outcomes is indeterminate. 
     
     
         8 ) The system of  claim 6  wherein a payment to pay the first bounty is from the financial resources of the first content provider. 
     
     
         9 ) The system of  claim 8  wherein an indeterminate outcome results in the fact being identified by a second visual identification characteristic associated with an indeterminate adjudication outcome. 
     
     
         10 ) The system of  claim 3  wherein the evaluation guideline is directed to a mechanical analysis of the two sets. 
     
     
         11 ) The system of  claim 10  further including a count of reader exposure to the fact and upon reaching a predetermined certification threshold quantity of reader exposure replacing the first visual identification characteristic with a third visual identification characteristic now associated with a first set of fact support information whereby the fact is thereafter identified as a certified fact by virtue of reaching the predetermined certification threshold quantity and wherein the certified fact is disposed into a database consisting of a plurality of certified facts contributed by a plurality of content providers. 
     
     
         12 ) The system of  claim 11  wherein the certified fact is assigned a second bounty, and wherein the second bounty is greater than the first bounty. 
     
     
         13 ) The system of  claim 11  wherein one of the plurality of content providers is enabled to search the database and subsequently enabled to locate certified facts originated by others of the plurality of content providers into content of others of the plurality of content providers. 
     
     
         14 ) The system of  claim 11  wherein the fact is embedded in video content and the first visual identification characteristic is displayed at a moment in time corresponding with presentation of the certified fact. 
     
     
         15 ) The system of  claim 11  wherein a payment to pay the second bounty is from the financial resources of the administrator and wherein a decision to pay the second bounty is associated with a fourth party adjudicator. 
     
     
         16 ) The system of  claim 11  further including a first fact contribution to the database from the first content provider and a second content provider retrieval of the first fact contribution including an associated payment from the second content provider retrieval and further including a second payment from the administrator to the first content provider. 
     
     
         17 ) The system of  claim 13  further including a certification badge associated with one of the plurality hello after individually achieving a notification quality threshold with respect to a number of favorable adjudications. 
     
     
         18 ) The system of  claim 13  further including a super bounty in support of a proposition that the system is unbiased, the super bounty to be adjudicated by the fourth party. 
     
     
         19 ) A method to increase readership or viewership of a content provider by increasing trustworthiness of data-oriented content provided by the content provider, including:
 providing architecture to support selection of a fact of interest disposed within content of the content provider;   providing architecture to collect a set of fact support information from the content provider in support of the assertion that the fact of interest is accurate with respect to a specific pre-established written universal fact evaluation guideline; and   providing architecture to identify the fact of interest with a first visual identification characteristic indicating a first bounty shall be paid to a third-party as a first award for providing a set of bounty support information determined to supersede the accuracy of the set of fact support information with respect to the effective interest as measured by the specific pre-established written universal fact evaluation guideline.   
     
     
         20 ) A system including:
 an evaluation guideline established to compare the relative strength of a first set of fact support information and a second set of fact support information;   a first visual identification feature established to identify a fact wherein the fact is associated with a first set of fact support information and disposed within informative content and has an associated bounty offered as reward to a claimant who can provide a second set of fact support information determined by the evaluation guideline to have a higher relative strength than the first set of fact support information further including an interface associated with the first visual indication characteristic, the interface activating an information tag including at least one of an amount of the first bounty, the set of fact support information, an author, a serial number, an adjudication history, or any combination thereof further including a count of reader exposure to the fact and upon reaching a predetermined certification threshold quantity of reader exposure replacing the first visual identification characteristic with a third visual identification characteristic now associated with a first set of fact support information whereby the fact is thereafter identified as a certified fact by virtue of reaching the predetermined certification threshold quantity and wherein the certified fact is disposed into a database consisting of a plurality of certified facts contributed by a plurality of content providers.