How Clickshare Works
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How Clickshare Service works: A diagram
Clickshare Enables Billable Hypertext Links
Service Provider A can sell its users information from Content Provider
B;
B sets its royalty (wholesale); A charges retail to user
Key:
1. When a user first requests information at any Clickshare(sm)-enabled
location, the user is directed to their chosen Independent Clickshare
Service
Provider and asked to begin a Clickshare(sm) session.
2. Following successful authentication, user freely accesses and views
information on any Clickshare-enabled Content Provider.
3. Authentication queries and replies between the Content Provider's server
and the Clickshare "back end" Token Validation and Logging Server are
private-key encrypted. Micro-transaction settlement data, and advertiser
third-party log validation (tracked by individual users) is also passed in
this fashion. No credit-card information is passed across this link at any
time.
4. Royalties for content sales due to the copyright-owning Content Provider
and "referral commissions" due to the User's home-base Service Provider are
settled at least monthly. Clickshare Service Corp., or a licensed
Clickshare
subnet operator, retains a transaction fee on each sale.
5. An off-net database of completed micro-transactions and usage tracking is
assembled in real time by the Clickshare backend and passed to Service
Providers to be used to supply users with a report of their account once
every
24 hours upon request. It is also used to assemble and supply billing and
payment information for Service Providers and Content Providers (or their
designee) and advertising third-party tracking data. This database NEVER
contains names or other personal information of users. This information is
held ONLY by the user's chosen Service Provider, and by any Content
Providers to which the user releases this information.
