System and Method to Automatically Enhance Confidence in Intellectual Property Ownership
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- providing a data store comprising first data stored therein, the first data comprising a plurality of records, each record having a search criteria relating to digital content and annotation data associated therewith relating to at least one of a pedigree of the digital content, licensing information relating to the digital content, and an owner of copyright in the digital content;
receiving a request comprising one of receiving first digital content and determining first search criteria therefrom and receiving first search criteria derived from first digital content;
searching the first data to retrieve annotation data associated with the first search criteria; and
,responding to the request with annotation data associated with the first search criteria.
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Abstract
A system and method for documenting intellectual property ownership of digital content is described. The approach includes initializing an annotation, within or associated with the digital content, within a system with a reliable reference of authorship, ownership, and licensure to a first portion of the digital content and unverified claims of authorship, ownership, and licensure to a second portion of digital content. The invention also provides a system and method to augment and update these records by adding additional claims of ownership, authorship, and licensure over time or amending them based upon interactions with centralized repositories of digital content. The system and method also provide for determining the confidence in the ownership of the digital content.
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20 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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providing a data store comprising first data stored therein, the first data comprising a plurality of records, each record having a search criteria relating to digital content and annotation data associated therewith relating to at least one of a pedigree of the digital content, licensing information relating to the digital content, and an owner of copyright in the digital content; receiving a request comprising one of receiving first digital content and determining first search criteria therefrom and receiving first search criteria derived from first digital content; searching the first data to retrieve annotation data associated with the first search criteria; and
,responding to the request with annotation data associated with the first search criteria. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A system comprising:
a central server in communication with a communication network for storing of search data relating to digital content and annotation data in association with the search data and for accessing another server in communication with the network to retrieve annotation data therefrom in response to a request of a user, the annotation data retrieved from the another server and relayed to the user.
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20. A system comprising:
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computer hardware in communication with a network and for providing a data store comprising first data stored therein, the first data comprising a plurality of records, each record having a search criteria relating to digital content and annotation data associated therewith relating to at least one of a pedigree of the digital content, licensing information relating to the digital content, and an owner of copyright in the digital content; receiving a request comprising one of receiving first digital content and determining first search criteria therefrom and receiving first search criteria derived from first digital content; searching the first data to retrieve annotation data associated with the first search criteria; and
,responding to the request with annotation data associated with the first search criteria.
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