Automated digital express gateway for licensing and acquiring rights and permissions for 3rd party copyrighted content

US8438113B2 · kind B2 · utility

Inventor

• Richard Stahl · Rotselaar, BE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 21, 2011
• Grant date: May 7, 2013
• Expiry date: Aug 18, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q50/184
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

The invention provides an end-to-end automated streaming workflow process which enables real-time or batch processing to grant licenses and to acquire licenses for 3rd party copyrighted content. Using a computer, the invention automates the permissions transaction process of procuring and processing licenses real-time or by batch, reducing lead-times from many weeks or months to hours, automatically transforming and translating requests and responses for global e-commerce among multi-vendor systems and non-standard rights semantics and languages, eliminating or reducing manual labor effort, negotiating licensing fees to conform with specifications, protecting rights-holders' intellectual property rights and assuring rights-holders they are fairly compensated and paid for their work, identifying “public domain” and/or “fair use” works, saving companies time and money, while providing a competitive advantage for publishers and the enterprise.