System and method for confirming authorship of documents

• US 10,331,770 B1
• Filed: 10/02/2015
• Issued: 06/25/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Hansson, Othar, Kamdar, Sagar, Cassidy, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Bates, Kevin T
• Assistant Examiner(s): Huang, Chen-Liang
• Application Number:
  US14/873,777
• Time in Patent Office: 1,362 Days
• Field of Search: 709204
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9566 URL specific, e.g. using aliases, detecting broken or misspelled links
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/64 Protecting data integrity, e.g. using checksums, certificates or signatures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking

Abstract

A system, computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for confirming authorship of documents is presented. A document hosted on a website of a domain is accessed, where the document includes an authorship identifier asserting authorship of the document by an entity. Authorship of the document by the entity is conditionally confirmed when a profile for the entity is associated with the authorship identifier and when the profile for the entity indicates that the entity has confirmed that the authorship identifier is included in documents authored by the entity that are hosted on the first website of the first domain. Responsive to confirming authorship of the document by the entity, application of a confirmed authorship process to the document is permitted. Responsive to failing to confirm authorship of the document by the entity, application of the confirmed authorship process to the document is barred.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for confirming authorship of documents, performed on a server having at least one processor and memory storing at least one program for execution by the at least one processor to perform the method, comprising:

confirming entity authorship of a first document hosted on a first website when;

(i) the first document includes a first link having a first target attribute that identifies a second document and a first authorship attribute asserting authorship of the first document, and

(ii) the second document includes a second link having a second target attribute that identifies a location of the first document and a second authorship attribute asserting authorship of the first document; and

responsive to confirming authorship of the first document by the entity, adding information relating to the first document to a web-page associated with the entity.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising determining that the first document has a non-confirmed authorship when the second document cannot be located or when the second document does not include the second link and the second authorship attribute.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the first authorship attribute and the second authorship attribute have a value of one of “

me”

, “

author”

, “

co-author”

, “

contributor”

, or “

contributor-to”

.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the second document is a profile page associated with an entity, the entity being a purported author of or contributor to the first document.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the location is a subdomain that hosts the first document.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the location is a uniform resource locator for the first document.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the location is a domain that hosts the first document.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the web-page is a web-page including information relating to documents that the entity authored.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the web-page is a social networking web-page for the entity.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the confirmed authorship process comprises associating the first document with the entity in a search index.

11. A system to confirm authorship of documents, comprising:

at least one processor;

memory; and

at least one program stored in the memory and executable by the at least one processor, the at least one program comprising instructions to;

confirm entity authorship of a first document hosted on a first web site when;

(i) the first document includes a first link having a first target attribute that a chain of documents, each document in the chain of documents having a respective link with a respective target attribute and a respective authorship attribute, the respective target attribute identifying a next document in the chain of documents, wherein a last document in the chain of documents has a target attribute that identifies a second document and a second authorship attribute and

(ii) the second document includes a second link having a second target attribute that identifies a location of the first document and a second authorship attribute asserting authorship of the first document; and

responsive to confirming authorship of the first document by the entity, adding information relating to the first document to a web-page associated with the entity.

12. The system of claim 11, further comprising determining that the first document has a non-confirmed authorship when the second document cannot be located or when the second document does not include the second link and the second authorship attribute.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the first authorship attribute and the second authorship attribute have a value of one of “

me”

, “

author”

, “

co-author”

, “

contributor”

, or “

contributor-to”

.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the second document is a profile page associated with an entity, the entity being a purported author of or contributor to the first document.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein the location is a subdomain that hosts the first document.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein the location is a uniform resource locator for the first document.

17. The system of claim 11, wherein the location is a domain that hosts the first document.

18. The system of claim 11, wherein the web-page is a web-page including information relating to documents that the entity authored.

19. The system of claim 11, wherein the confirmed authorship process comprises associating the first document with the entity in a search index.