Patent ID: 8311948

Claim:
A content creation, monitoring and selection system that establishes a social network community of content creators to generate one or more content submissions, the system comprising: a content creation and monitoring (CCM) platform; a software structure of a plurality of grade levels and a plurality of criteria, at least one criterion being established for each of the grade levels, and a criterion of one grade level being different from a criterion of another grade level, wherein the CCM platform is configured to assign a grade level to a content creator based on a criterion established for the grade level to enforce the software structure; and a first threshold and a second threshold, wherein the CCM platform is configured to: generate a peer point value determined from a peer perspective of content creators for each content submission of one or more content submissions based on evaluations, generate a manufacturer point value from a manufacturer perspective based on manufacturer evaluations for only a content submission of the content submissions whose peer point value exceeds the first threshold, and select each content submission of the content submissions whose manufacturer point value exceeded the second threshold as a candidate for a content market.