US 11,792,460 B2
Systems and methods to facilitate quality control of benefit items created for subscribers of a membership platform
George Edward Bonner, Oakland, CA (US); and Jekabs Stikans, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Patreon, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Patreon, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on May 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/824,809.
Application 17/824,809 is a continuation of application No. 17/324,058, filed on May 18, 2021, granted, now 11,368,735.
Prior Publication US 2022/0377399 A1, Nov. 24, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04N 21/2543 (2011.01); H04N 21/262 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); G06Q 30/0208 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 21/26225 (2013.01) [G06Q 30/0208 (2013.01); H04N 21/2543 (2013.01); H04N 21/26233 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system configured to facilitate quality control of merchandise created for subscribers of a membership platform, the system comprising:
one or more physical processors configured by machine-readable instructions to:
obtain quality control information for physical merchandise offered to subscribers of a membership platform who subscribe to content creators in exchange for consideration, the quality control information specifying subscribership criteria that correspond to different levels of print resolution quality of the physical merchandise, the levels of print resolution quality being based on how digital assets that define components of the physical merchandise will physically appear on the physical merchandise after creation of the physical merchandise using the digital assets, the levels of print resolution quality being print resolutions of the digital assets appearing on the physical merchandise, wherein the subscribership criteria include subscribership characteristics of the subscribers that correlate the subscribers to the different ones of the levels of print resolution quality;
obtain input information conveying input of the digital assets by the content creators through a reward fulfilment user interface through which specification of the physical merchandise is facilitated;
calculate the levels of print resolution quality of the physical merchandise based on the digital assets input by the content creators through the reward fulfilment user interface by determining dots-per-inch (DPI) values;
determine, from the quality control information, the subscribership criteria that correspond to calculated ones of the levels of print resolution quality of the physical merchandise based on the digital assets input by the content creators; and
authorize fulfillment of the physical merchandise to the subscribers at the different ones of the levels of print resolution quality based on the subscribership characteristics of the subscribers satisfying the subscribership criteria for the different ones of the levels of print resolution quality.