Patent ID: 8024313
Filing Date: 2011-09-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: providing at least a process of a plurality of processes, each process relating to automatically sourcing at least an element of a plurality of elements, each element relating of an aspect of an external digital content at least one of to be introduced and introduced into a digital content file, wherein an aspect of the external digital content is selected from the group comprising, a file length, a file size, a file type, a file format, an author, a copyright, a license, an owner, and an aspect of the content of the external digital content; providing a content development system allowing a user to work with the digital content file and operating upon a first computer; providing a file alteration monitor in communication with the first computer, the file alteration monitor configured with at least one metadata of a plurality of metadata to gather for the content development system; establishing that an event has occurred, the event determined in dependence upon a least automatically detecting when the digital content file is at least one of imported, created, moved, altered, and deleted within the content development system, the at least one of at least one of modifying the at least one metadata and adding new metadata to the plurality of metadata; providing the at least one of metadata and new metadata as the provided data term; transmitting to at least one software queue of a plurality of software queues in dependence upon establishing that an event occurred at least one of the digital content file, a predetermined portion of a plurality of metadata associated with the digital content file, and a signature associated with the digital content file; providing at least one policy engine of a plurality of policy engines, each policy engine polling a predetermined portion of the software queues to determine whether an event has been stored within the predetermined portion of the software queues; retrieving with the one policy engine upon determining that an event has been stored the event and applying at least one policy of a plurality of policies to the at least one of the digital content file, a predetermined portion of the plurality of metadata associated with the digital content file, and a signature associated with the digital content file associated with the event; and dispatching an action term to the memory to become one of the plurality of data terms, the dispatching determined in dependence upon at least the one policy and a result of applying the at least one policy to the at least one of the digital content file, a predetermined portion of the plurality of metadata associated with the digital content file, and a signature associated with the digital content file associated with the event.