Patent ID: 6947909

Claim:
A method of controlling the distribution and use of Intellectual and Copyrighted Property within a global digital communication, cable, fiber optic and satellite network having and infrastructure of Network Service Providers, Internet Service Providers, Connectivity Providers, Servers and Routers, said method comprising: step for generating a Transaction Code Identifier to be used to distinguish digitized content as an Intellectual or Copyrighted Property that is unique and bound to restrictions with regard to transfer, ownership, proliferation and electronic commerce; step for recognizing the said TCI by a third party Internet Servicing agencies (IS), Internet Providers (IP), Network Providers (NP), Connectivity Providers (CP), Servers, Routers and end user devices whereby: step for inspecting all the digitized transmissions within the domains of said respective third party IS, IP, NP, CP, Servers Routers and end user devices, for the presence of a TCIs by the said third party IS, IP, NP, CP, Servers, Routers, and end user devices, whereupon; step for gating said transmission that have been determined to contain said TCIs by the said IS, IP's, NP's, CP, Servers, Routers and end user devices, and further; step for validating that the legal requirements of transfer, ownership, proliferation and electronic commerce, have been met, by said third party IS, IP's, NP's; CP, Servers, Routers and end user devices; and step for transferring said transmission to the originally intended recipient(s) by said third party IS, IP's, NP's; CP, Servers, Routers and end user devices after the legal requirements of transfer, ownership, proliferation and electronic commerce have been validated.