Patent ID: 8745068

Claim:
A method of replacing digital assets within a multimedia document, comprising: receiving a selection for an original asset within the multimedia document; retrieving, from a database, one or more alternative assets, wherein the one or more alternative assets are a same media type as the selected original asset; calculating an appropriateness value of each of the one or more alternative assets based on the original asset, wherein the one or more alternative assets are a same media type as the selected original asset; calculating a constraint of permissive use value of each of the one or more alternative assets, wherein the constraint of permissive use value is a function of a licensing restriction value, a confidentiality restriction value, and a cost of use value of the one or more alternative assets; assigning a fitness value to each of the one or more alternative assets based on the appropriateness value and the constraint of permissive use value; and providing one or more of the one or more alternative assets to a workstation based on the fitness value.