Patent ID: 7814560

Claim:
An online publishing portal for enabling geographically-spaced common-brand users to publish locale-specific, brand-controlled messages from desktops in a global computer network, the online publishing portal comprising: globally accessible means for creating centrally storable, digital, plate-ready macrotemplates, central storage means for storing the macrotemplates, means for transferring created macrotemplates to said central storage means, means for authorizing selective access to created, transferred, and centrally stored macrotemplates, ubiquitous means for continually monitoring and controlling macrotemplate access, ubiquitous means for continually monitoring and controlling macrotemplate alteration, means for globally accessing the centrally stored macrotemplates, and means for locally publishing information compiled upon the macrotemplates via a global computer network, the central storage means comprising a user data store and a publisher data store, the means for authorizing selective access to the macrotemplates for authenticating globally positioned users' credentials against the user data store, authenticated users' credentials providing selective access to the macrotemplates, the created macrotemplates each comprising a plurality of digital, plate-ready microtemplates, the microtemplates comprising at least one brand template and at least one message template, the means for authorizing selective access to the macrotemplates enabling select users to edit a select microtemplate, the select microtemplate being selected from, the group consisting of the brand template and the message template, said means for continually monitoring and controlling macrotemplate access and said means for continually monitoring and controlling macrotemplate alteration continually monitoring and controlling macrotemplate access, content, and distribution, the means for locally publishing information compiled upon the macrotemplates enabling globally positioned users to select a localized publisher, the localized publisher being selected from the publisher data store, the global computer network enabling globally positioned users to electronically send a finalized macrotemplate to the selected localized publisher, the finalized macrotemplate being output to the selected localized publisher for publication, the online publishing portal thus enabling geographically-spaced common-brand users to publish locale-specific, brand-controlled messages.