Patent ID: 8201242
Filing Date: 2012-06-12
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for resolving rights to reuse content in a publication having information associated therewith displayed on a display screen controlled by a computer having a processor, the method comprising: (a) providing by the computer an area on the display screen that activates a link to a rights advisor program running in a memory of a rights server; (b) storing by the rights server rights agreements that govern rights to reuse content and have been entered into by a plurality of organizations; (c) receiving a selection of the area by the computer from a pointing device connected to the computer and, in response thereto, obtaining context information including information identifying one of the plurality of organizations; (d) sending by the computer the context information and a uniform resource locator (URL) associated with the publication to the rights server, whereupon the rights server uses the rights advisor program to retrieve all stored rights agreements entered into by the one organization; (e) determining, by the rights server using the rights advisor program with the URL, rights set forth in the retrieved rights agreements that cover the publication; (f) creating by the rights server a hierarchy that extends from a worst applicable right to a best applicable right by using the rights advisor program to arrange the rights determined in step (e); (g) determining by the rights server the best applicable rights by examining the hierarchy using the rights advisor program, and (h) presenting by the rights server on the display screen the best applicable rights.