Method and system for automatically publishing content

• US 8,271,350 B2
• Filed: 12/14/2007
• Issued: 09/18/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/03/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ContentGuard Holdings, Inc. (Pendrell Corporation)
• Original Assignee: ContentGuard Holdings, Inc. (Pendrell Corporation)
• Inventors: Lao, Guillermo, Chen, Daniel C., Nahidipour, Aram, Valenzuela, Edgardo, Chen, Ivy Y., Wang, Xin, Brenner, Ralph H. Jr., Berchowitz, Mark
• Primary Examiner(s): ALLEN, WILLIAM J
• Application Number:
  US11/957,018
• Publication Number:
  US 20080091462A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,740 Days
• Field of Search: 705 26- 27, 705 51- 59, 705 261- 272
• US Class Current: 705/26.41
• 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 comprising:

generating, by a publishing system, a rights specification for a content with a metadata, the rights specification including at least one of an access right, a usage right, and an accompanying condition;

generating, by the publishing system, metadata describing the content;

publishing the content in accordance with a selected publishing profile; and

providing, by the publishing system, a rights specification content identifier and the metadata to at least one distributor system in accordance with the publishing profile, thereby notifying the distributor system of the availability of the content and the rights specification, wherein the rights specification content identifier includes information identifying the rights specification, and wherein the rights specification content identifier can be used by the distributor to cause the content to be distributed for use in accordance with the rights specification or for use in accordance with a modified version of the rights specification.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

processing the rights specification indicated by the content identifier according to a predefined rule;

generating a response to the notification of the distributor system based upon the processed rights specification;

delivering the metadata and rights specification to the distributor system according to the response; and

generating a catalog item in the distributor system based upon at least one of the rights specification or the metadata.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the predefined rule comprises at least one of a content type preference, a right and condition, a preference, a content topic, and a publisher.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the distributor system further uses a pre-defined rule to perform at least one of narrowing a right defined by the rights specification and changing a condition defined by the rights specification to produce the modified version of the rights expression including at least one of a customized right or a condition for use by the distributor system.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein generating the rights specification is based upon at least one of a user profile, a default rights specification, an inference rule, and an analysis of the selected content.

6. A content distribution system comprising:

a publishing system for creating a rights template, receiving content, creating metadata, and associating the metadata with the content; and

a control device configured to generate a rights specification by applying the rights template to the content and the metadata, wherein the rights specification including at least one of an access right, a usage right, and an accompanying condition, the control device further configured to publish the content in accordance with a selected publishing profile, provide a content identifier to at least one distributor system in accordance with the publishing profile, thereby notifying the distributor system of the availability of the content and the rights specification for distribution by the distributor, wherein the content identifier includes information identifying the rights specification, and wherein the content identifier can be used by the distributor to cause the content to be distributed for use in accordance with the rights specification or for use in accordance with a modified version of the rights specification.

7. The content distribution system of claim 6, wherein the distributor system generates a response to the notification, the response determined by processing information indicated by the content identifier according to a predefined rule, whereby the metadata and rights specification are delivered to the distributor system based on the response to the notification.

8. The content distribution system of claim 7, further comprising:

a catalog database for receiving a catalog item generated by the distributor system upon receiving the metadata and rights specification.

9. The content distribution system of claim 8, wherein the predefined rule includes at least one of a content type preference, a right and condition, a preference, a content topic, and a publisher.

10. The content distribution system of claim 8, wherein the distributor system further uses the pre-defined rule to perform at least one of narrowing a right defined by the rights specification and changing a condition defined by the rights specification to create the modified version of the rights expression having at least one of a customized right and a condition for use by the distributor system.

11. The content distribution system of claim 10, wherein the control device configured to generate the rights specification generates the rights specification based upon at least one of a user profile, a default rights specification, an inference rule, and an analysis of the content.

12. A non-transitory computer readable medium including one or more computer readable instructions embedded therein for publishing content and configured to cause one or more computer processors to perform the steps of:

generating, by the publishing system, metadata describing the content;

publishing the content in accordance with a selected publishing profile; and

providing, by the publishing system, a rights specification content identifier and the metadata to at least one distributor system in accordance with the publishing profile, thereby notifying the distributor system of the availability of the content and the rights specification, wherein the rights specification content identifier includes information identifying the rights specification, and wherein the rights specification content identifier can be used by the distributor to cause the content to be distributed for use in accordance with the rights specification or for use in accordance with a modified version of the rights specification.

13. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 12 further comprising:

instructions for processing the rights specification indicated by the rights specification content identifier according to a predefined rule;

instructions for generating a response to the notification of the distributor system based upon the processed rights specification;

instructions for delivering the metadata and rights specification to the distributor system according to the response; and

instructions for generating a catalog item in the distributor system based upon the rights specification.

14. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 13, wherein generating the rights specification is based upon at least one of a user profile, a default rights specification, an inference rule, and an analysis of the selected content, and wherein the predefined rule includes at least one of a content type preference, a right and condition, a preference, a content topic, and a publisher.

15. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 14, wherein the distributor system further uses a pre-defined rule to perform at least one of narrowing a right defined by the rights specification and changing a condition defined by the rights specification to produce the modified version of the rights specification having at least one of a customized right and a condition for publication in a catalog.