Patent ID: 7734601
Filing Date: 2010-06-08
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A combined digital asset management system and Intellectual Property management system, comprising: a digital asset management system; an intellectual property management system; and an interface for the exchange of data between the systems, the interface including media for the propagation of electronic information; the digital asset management system to store data objects representing digital assets, the data objects storing content of multiple versions of the digital asset, further storing metadata identifying at most one of the versions that is valid for use by the digital asset management system, further storing automatically generated inheritance links based on object hierarchies, and further storing links between objects based on a taxonomy of properties associated with each object, separate from the inheritance links; the intellectual property system configured to receive input from a user defining legal rights associated with a particular digital asset and storing those rights in association with the particular digital asset; and further receiving input from a user defining a user created IP link between two digital assets including a hierarchical designation between the two digital assets, the IP link being separate from the automatically generated inheritance links, wherein a lower designated digital asset of a user created IP link inherits the legal rights definition associated with a higher designated digital asset of the user created IP link.