Patent ID: 7840534
Filing Date: 2010-11-23
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a processor; and computer-executable instructions for execution by the processor, the instructions to implement: a digital asset management application as part of a digital asset management system to manage digital assets structured in a hierarchy of nodes with each digital asset including a plurality of embedded versions of actual realizations of the digital asset organized in the nodes according to an asset type, with at least one digital asset appearing under a plurality of asset type nodes in the hierarchy and each version including a property identifying whether the version is active and a legal condition specifying a distribution restriction of the version, a network sales application as part of a network sales system, the network sales application to administer a database of sales related information including sales conditions specifying a price and a medium for distributing an active version of each digital asset to a user, an user interface application to identify active versions of digital assets organized under a node matching a user-selected criterion and compare an user-selected sales condition from the sales conditions of the identified active versions to the corresponding legal condition and commence a sale of the user-selected digital asset through the network sales application when the comparison indicates the distribution medium in the user-selected sales condition satisfies the distribution restriction in the corresponding legal condition, and a bidirectional linkage between the digital asset management application and the network sales application.