Patent ID: 7620555

Claim:
A computer implemented manuscript review and determination process, comprising: receiving at a central computer system, said computer system comprising a computer and a memory, manuscript data from a remote terminal associated with an author, said manuscript data defining a complete manuscript including at least one of text data, audio data, and video data; generating by said central computer system a request to review prompt for prompting a potential reviewer for agreement to review said manuscript; transmitting said request to review prompt to a remote terminal associated with said potential reviewer; storing in a database controlled by said central computer system agreement data received from said potential reviewer at said central computer system, said agreement data including at least one of agreement to review and disagreement to review said manuscript; and storing a decision whether to publish said manuscript; further comprising storing at said central computer system different rights relating to a manuscript for users defined as author, editor, associate editor, and reviewer; further comprising configuring said central computer system so that a user defined as an author of said manuscript has rights to get status information relating to said manuscript, a user defined as an editor has rights to assign associate editors to said manuscript, assign reviewers to said manuscript, view, authorize publication, and get status information for said manuscript, a user defined as an associate editor for said manuscript has rights to assign reviewers to said manuscript, view, authorize publication, and get status information for said manuscript and does not have rights to assign additional associate editors to said manuscript, a user defined as a reviewer of a manuscript has rights to indicate whether said manuscript should be published, and get status information on said manuscript.