System for sharing annotation overlays

• US 20150248387A1
• Filed: 07/29/2014
• Published: 09/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kenneth Arthur Wallace, William E. Mattingly
• Original Assignee: Kenneth Arthur Wallace, William E. Mattingly
• Inventors: Mattingly, William E., Wallace, Kenneth Arthur
• Application Number:
  US14/121,081
• Publication Number:
  US 20150248387A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/184 Intellectual property management
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/377 for mixing or overlaying two or more graphic patterns G09G5/02, G09G5/397 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

This application is for an electronic annotation system for annotating (by text, picture, or video) electronic digital content and sharing the annotations as an account owner with third parties without violating any copyrights of the digital content owner. Rather than sharing the electronically annotated digital content with third parties, only an overlay with the electronic annotation is shared with third parties as an account owner. The third parties must have their own legally obtained copy of the digital content. The third parties can open the annotation and independently access the underlying digital content, thereby spatially integrating the two on the third parties'"'"' computer screens.

Claims

1. A method of sharing electronic annotations with, and among, multiple users, the method comprising the steps of

creating an overlay with annotations of text, pictures, or videos spatially registered with digital content,

transferring the overlay to a recipient without the underlying digital content, and

integrating the annotations with the digital content at spatially registered sites for viewing by each user and recipient who has the legal right to access the underlying digital content.