Patent ID: 8843543

Claim:
A source attribution system comprising: a tracking module configured to generate an identification meta-data to be associated with an original content of a first publisher that originates in a third-party source server of a public wide area network such that the original content is attributable to the first publisher through the identification meta-data associated thereto with the original content when the original content having the associated identification meta-data is republished; a processor; a memory storing instructions which, when performed by the processor, cause the processor to determine that a subsequent publishing of the original content is an embedded portion of another work of authorship when a communication of the identification meta-data is extracted from a server in which the subsequent publishing is manifested and transmitted from the server to the processor; a notification module configured to automatically generate a communication having at least one of an identity data of a subsequent publisher and a temporal data associated with the subsequent publishing that is transmitted to the first publisher of the original content when the another work of authorship is published with the embedded portion haying the original content; a curation module configured to permit the subsequent publisher of the another work of authorship to publish a subsequent content comprising a snippet of data associable with the original content published by the first publisher such that an attribution is maintained between the original content published by the first publisher and the subsequent content comprising the snippet of data published by the subsequent publisher in the another work of authorship; and a relationship module configured to maintain a bi-directional relationship between the snippet of data published by the subsequent publisher in the another work of authorship and the temporal data associated with the subsequent publishing such that the original content having the associated identification meta-data is republished with the embedded portion of the subsequent content comprising the snippet of data published by the subsequent publisher in the another work of authorship.