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System and method for decision of publishing literary work based on reviewer's satisfaction demographic factors

  • US 8,027,867 B2
  • Filed: 10/14/2008
  • Issued: 09/27/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/03/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for providing reader-supplied evaluation of a sample of an authored literary work for potential publication of the work comprising:

  • a host computer comprising a processor and a storage device;

    a first interface module operably connected to the Internet, for receiving only a portion of the literary work from an author to be reviewed via the Internet;

    the storage device stores portion of the literary work along with other portions of other literary works for review;

    a second interface module that receives a request from a reader to review the portion of the literary work;

    a work presenter that presents the portion of literary work to the reader based on the reader'"'"'s request;

    a security mechanism that limits the ability of users to misappropriate credit for the portion of literary work when the literary work were to be resubmitted by another author including a timestamp associated with a time of first receipt of the portion of the literary work from the author for resolving disputes regarding original authorship;

    a review receiving module that receives evaluation of the portion of the literary work from the reader and placing the review in the storage device associated with portion of the literary work;

    a criteria determination module, executed by the processor, having multiple levels of review of the authored literary work, further comprising;

    a reader-satisfaction module, executed by the processor, for determining whether a predetermined reader-satisfaction criteria is met during a first level review, the first level review being one of multiple levels of review; and

    a demographic module for determining whether the literary work has been reviewed by a predetermined number of reviewers from a plurality of reviewer demographics; and

    a publishing determination module that decides to publish the literary work when the predetermined reader-satisfaction criteria is met and when the literary work has been reviewed by a predetermined number of reviewers from a plurality of reviewer demographics.

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