Record-keeping system for transmission and production of content

• US 20060064359A1
• Filed: 05/26/2005
• Published: 03/23/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Thundershield, LLC
• Original Assignee: Thundershield, LLC
• Inventors: Slaughter, David W., Piccionelli, Gregory A., Gerardi, Michael M., Batts, Dwight J.
• Application Number:
  US11/140,601
• Publication Number:
  US 20060064359A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

A method of producing content, the content depicting at least one person, includes the steps of: providing information pertaining to a person to be depicted in at least a portion of the content, the information being classified into a plurality of fields, at least a portion of the fields being associated with authorization criteria; associating the information with the content; verifying that the information complies with the authorization criteria; and producing the content.

Claims

1. A method of producing content, the content depicting at least one person, the method comprising the steps of:

(i) providing information pertaining to a person to be depicted in at least a portion of the content, the information being classified into a plurality of fields, at least a portion of the fields being associated with authorization criteria,

(ii) associating the information with the content,

(iii) verifying that the information complies with the authorization criteria, and

(iv) producing the content.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein at least one of the plurality of fields is model release and wherein the associated authorization criterion is entry of a model release signed by the person.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein in step (i) the person executes a model release at a location in which the content is to be produced and wherein a digitized version of the executed model release is entered.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein at least one of the plurality of fields is medical release and wherein the associated authorization criterion is entry of a medical release signed by the person.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein an additional authorization criterion is freedom from communicable diseases and wherein a medical record of the person is examined pursuant to the signed medical release in order to verify that the person is free from communicable diseases.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein step (v) is carried out only after step (iv) is completed.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein prior to step (i) it is determined whether information to be provided is subject to a regulation of a jurisdiction in which the information is located prohibiting the disclosure thereof.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein only information that is determined not to be subject to a regulation of a jurisdiction in which the information is located prohibiting the disclosure thereof is provided.

9. A method of producing content, the content depicting at least one person, the method comprising the steps of:

(i) providing information pertaining to a person to be depicted in at least a portion of the content, the information being classified into a plurality of fields, at least a portion of the plurality of fields being associated with authorization criteria,

(ii) associating the information with the content,

(iii) verifying that the information complies with the authorization criteria,

(iv) determining whether the entry into at least one field associated with a authorization criterion is also associated with a date at which the entry ceases to comply with the authorization criterion,

(v) providing a notification when a positive determination is made in step (iv), and

(vi) producing the content.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the notification provided in step (v) includes a field and date identified in step (iv).

11. The method of claim 10 wherein the field is identification document and the date is an expiration date of the identification document.