Patent ID: 8983970
Filing Date: 2015-03-17
Classification: G06F,G06K

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: determining a content baseline that specifies a threshold date before which authorship of content pieces is attributed to no particular author; identifying two or more documents, wherein each of the two or more documents contains a same particular content piece; determining whether an earliest occurring of the two or more documents occurred before the content baseline that specifies the threshold date before which content pieces are deemed neither original nor copied; and determining whether to attribute an authorship of the particular content piece, in a later occurring of the two or more documents, to (i) an author associated with the earliest occurring of the two or more documents or to (ii) no particular author, based on determining whether the earliest occurring of the two or more documents occurred before the content baseline that specifies the threshold date before which authorship of content pieces is attributed to no particular author.