Patent ID: 8874533
Filing Date: 2014-10-28
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of obtaining and validating data associated with a copyrighted work, the method comprising: generating a user interface display on a first electronic device, said user interface functionally linked to a web server via a communications network and configured for enabling a first party to submit to said web server each of: primary data comprising a copyrighted work, and secondary data comprising names of a plurality of owners comprising said first party and ownership percentages associated with each of said owners for one or more copyrights associated with the primary data; transmitting said primary data and secondary data to electronic devices associated with each of said owners other than the first party and displaying said primary data and secondary data on respective user interfaces for each of the owners; enabling each of the owners to validate the ownership percentages or to submit a correction comprising a revised ownership percentage via the user respective interface; sequentially enabling each of the first party and any of said one or more owners submitting revised owner percentages to selectively validate or correct previously submitted ownership percentages; upon validating ownership percentages for each of said owners, enabling the validated owners to pre-approve licenses of the copyrighted work; generating a social network user interface comprising a display field containing the primary data and validated ownership percentages and accessible via a social communications network, the social network user interface further identifying the copyrighted work as being preapproved for licenses; generating a preapproved license of said copyrighted work in response to a user selection via said social network user interface; and wherein each of the first party and any one or more owners submitting revised owner percentages are sequentially enabled to selectively validate or correct previously submitted ownership percentages until a predetermined maximum number of corrections is reached, further wherein said copyrighted work is flagged as being in dispute with respect to said non-validated ownership percentage.