Information-market system

Abstract

The current application is directed to methods and systems that provide an information market in which information producers sell information, advertisers purchase consumption of advertisements, and information consumers purchase information from information producers and receive compensation from advertisers through automated and semi-automated information-market transactions. The information market provides a transaction-based marketplace for the provision and consumption of information in much the same way as various types of financial markets provide a marketplace for cost-effective exchange of goods and services. The transaction-based information market provides flexibility and control to both information providers and information consumers as well as the cost efficiency of a transaction-based information marketplace.

1 . An electronic information market system comprising:
 multiple computer systems, each of which has one or more processors, one or more memories, network-communications subsystems, and computer instructions, stored in one or more of the one or more memories, that control the computer system to cooperate with other of the multiple computer systems to
 negotiate on the behalf of user processor-controlled devices with advertiser computer systems, which transmit electronically encoded advertisements to remote computer systems and other processor-controlled devices, to transmit electronically encoded advertisements to user processor-controlled devices; 
 aggregate electronically encoded advertisements and information received from the advertiser computer systems and from content-provider computer systems that transmit electronically encoded information to remote computer systems and other processor-controlled devices; and 
 transmit aggregated electronically encoded advertisements and information to user computers.