Patent ID: 8082486
Filing Date: 2011-12-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A source attribution system comprising: a tracking module configured to generate an identification meta-data to be associated with an original content of a first publisher that originates in a third-party source server of a public wide area network such that the original content is attributable to the first publisher through the identification meta-data associated thereto with the original content when the original content having the associated identification meta-data is republished; a processor communicatively coupled with a non-transitory memory which is configured to determine that a subsequent publishing of the original content is an embedded portion of another work of authorship when a communication of the identification meta-data is extracted from a server in which the subsequent publishing is manifested and transmitted from the server to the processor; a notification module to automatically generate a communication having at least one of an identity data of a subsequent publisher and a temporal data associated with the subsequent publishing that is transmitted to the first publisher of the original content when the another work of authorship is published with the embedded portion having the original content; and a transaction module to provide a financial incentive to the first publisher proportional to at least one of an aggregate number of views, unique visitor count, bounce rate, social sharing rate, and commenting rate, associated with subsequent publishing of the original content in the another work of authorship; wherein the another work of authorship is a separately copyrightable work of authorship comprising its own content in addition to leveraged and attributed content from disparate media sources, wherein the third-party source of the public wide area network is a Short Messaging System based publication system that is monitored by the subsequent publisher through a leveraged content server in which the another work of authorship is compiled prior to publishing, wherein the leveraged content server automatically formats the another work of authorship to be optimally displayed in a plurality of multimedia types including print, video, a type that is able to be displayed on a tablet, and types that are able to display online news, and/or a blog, wherein each embedded instance of the original content of the first publisher in the another works of authorship are interactable directly through a location where the another work of authorship is published in a manner in which a click-through on the embedded portion of the another work of authorship transports a navigation pane presently comprising a particular republishing of the original content to the Short Messaging System based publication system in which the original content is first published by the first publisher, wherein the leveraged content server automatically determines which original content is trusted in the public wide area network based on republishing history associated with the original content contributions of the first publisher and other first publishers, and which algorithmically presents preferred content to subsequent publishers based on a criteria including a popularity of republishing of the original content and a credibility scoring of the first publisher and other publishers that is determined based on an algorithmic page rank of republished destinations and originated sources of the original content.