Patent ID: 8712825
Filing Date: 2014-04-29
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A Web-based royalty system and user interface for tracking and managing albums and other digital works comprising: a first computer having at least one processor and a memory; a Web browser operating on said first computer; an album view interface, running in a graphical user interface hosted by the Web browser, having browser-rendered user input elements to manage a plurality of albums from the Web browser, said album view interface comprising: a revenue module running within the Web browser and having user input elements to input sales records for each product; a second computer having at least one processor and a memory, said second computer in communication with said first computer; a calculation engine operating on said second computer for calculating royalties due for the sales records inputted for each product, by matching each sales record with a given product listed in the product section, and determining for each matched product royalties due based on applying contract terms that are applicable to sales of that product, including resolving any conflicts that arise from overlapping contract terms using said user-assigned priority values assigned for the contract terms and applying default contract terms for sales not otherwise covered by a contract term; and a statement generator operating on said second computer for generating royalty reports of the calculated royalties for display to the user at the Web browser operating on said first computer.