Patent ID: 8296324

Claim:
A computer implemented system for integrating and searching media related databases comprising: a first server for receiving digital content from at least one of a plurality of sources; a second server for receiving at least one query from at least one user operating at least one of a plurality of user computing devices, wherein the received at least one query from the at least one user comprising a target document, and wherein the target document is one of a document file or a textual content; a database access layer being utilized by the first server and the second server to read and write to a plurality of databases, wherein the plurality of databases includes a content database and a media database, the content database receiving at least one article of the received digital content from the first server via the database access layer and storing the at least one article, and the media database containing at least one author data and at least one media outlet data; a mapping module for matching author data and media outlet data from the received digital content to the at least one author data and the at least one media outlet data contained in the media database; and wherein, responsive to the receiving the at least one query from the at least one user comprising the target document, the second server is configured to: determine a subject of the target document; determine the at least one article of the received digital content stored in the content database that is relevant to the determined subject of the target document; for the determined at least one article of the received digital content, determine at least one author data and at least one media outlet data from the matched author data and the matched media outlet data that are mapped to the determined at least one article of the received digital content; and provide to the at least one user computing device operated by the at least one user, a list of user-selectable links, wherein at least one of the list of user-selectable links corresponds to the determined at least one article of the received digital content and to the determined at least one author data and the determined at least one media outlet data that are mapped to the determined at least one article of the received digital content.