METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY PUBLISHING CONTENT

• US 20080091462A1
• Filed: 12/14/2007
• Published: 04/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/03/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ContentGuard Holdings, Inc. (Pendrell Corporation)
• Original Assignee: ContentGuard Holdings, Inc. (Pendrell Corporation)
• Inventors: CHEN, Daniel, BERCHOWITZ, Mark, BRENNER, Ralph, CHEN, Ivy, VALENZUELA, Edgardo, WANG, Xin, NAHIDIPOUR, Aram, LAO, Guillermo
• Granted Patent: US 8,271,350 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/344
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0185 Product, service or business identity fraud
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0603 Catalogue ordering
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces

Abstract

The publishing system and method automates at least some portion of a publishing process. The system publishes content using metadata, rights templates and/or specifications, publishing profiles and business rules.

Claims

1. A method for publishing content, the method comprising:

receiving a selection of content from a user;

receiving a request to publish the selected content from the user; and

supplying metadata regarding the selected content and a rights specification to a plurality of distributor systems in response to the request from the user to publish the content.

2. A system for publishing content, the system comprising:

a publishing system for receiving a request to publish a selection of content from a user; and

a plurality of distributor systems,

wherein said publishing system supplies metadata and a rights specification regarding the content to the plurality of distributor systems.