Patent ID: 9245284
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: G06Q,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for providing data services from a service platform to one or more registered end user entities via one or more networked computing devices, the method comprising: registering a plurality of end user entities to receive data services managed by the service platform, thereby establishing a plurality of registered end user entities; restricting data service delivery to at least a particular one of the plurality of registered end user entities to being a data service associated with a service contract assigned to at least the particular one of the plurality of registered end user entities and a data service associated with a token requirement pending at least partial fulfillment by an application of at least one credit from a payment for a sponsorship towards the associated token requirement, wherein the sponsorship is associated with at least the particular one of the plurality of registered end user entities; after it is determined that the associated token requirement has at least been partially fulfilled by the application of the at least one credit from the payment for the sponsorship towards the associated token requirement, storing, on at least one computer medium maintaining one or more token requirements associated with one or more data services having restricted delivery to one or more registered end user entities, the state of the associated token requirement in a data structure maintaining at least the state of the associated token requirement; and using the stored state of the associated token requirement in the data structure to provide the data service associated with the service contract to at least the particular one of the plurality of registered end user entities.