Patent ID: 8285837

Claim:
One or more computer-readable memories, disks, and/or storage devices that store executable instructions to perform a method of facilitating obtaining an object, the method comprising: accessing generation information within a first instance of the object, said object being audio, video, a moving image, or an application, said first instance of the object being a copy of the object with the generation information included in the first instance of the object; determining, based on said generation information, a first generation count of said first instance, said first generation count being based on a length of a chain of referrals that led to obtaining said first instance; creating a mechanism to contact a download site to obtain a second instance of the object, said mechanism indicating a second generation count that is to be assigned to said second instance of the object in an event in which said mechanism refers a download of said second instance of the object; and presenting said mechanism in a user interface associated with said first instance of the object, said creating of said mechanism comprising: creating a link to said download site, said link comprising a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of said download site and a representation of said first generation count or said second generation count, said link further comprising an indication of a source, said source being a generation zero instance of said object that was obtained without having been referred through other instances of said object, said source being other than said first instance of said object.