Patent Document ID: 9742753
Application ID: 14331209

Base Claim:
1. A multimedia method of capturing, storing, retrieving and disseminating personal and/or group legacy and history information comprising the steps of: a. providing a secure technology-based platform for access by authorized users over a network; b. providing a mobile and web-based or mobile-app-based graphical user interface, whereby an individual and/or group user(s), via multiple media (video, audio, photographic, text or combinations thereof), can record, store, retrieve and/or disseminate content in an ad hoc or prompted manner via a mobile and web-based or mobile-app-based multimedia computer device; c. providing server or cloud-based storage to store such content; d. providing multiple options to such user(s) for retrieving such content, including, email, direct download, DVD, e-book reader, or mailed storage media; e. providing audio/video-to-text transcription of such recorded content; and f. providing the user with the option to authorize dissemination of such content to authorized designees via email, direct download, DVD, e-book reader, mailed storage media and/or social media platforms; wherein said graphical user interface further comprises a log-in process module for accessing a secure computer technology-based software platform for use by one or more authorized users over a computer network using one or more of the multimedia computer devices, the one or more computer devices capable of recording content in audio, video, photographic, and/or text format and/or combinations thereof; an auto question prompt module for prompting the user with a series of questions, one or more visual content images, audio files, music files, and/or one or more visual content videos stored within the system pertaining to topics of interest to prompt the user to provide answers to such questions to form part of the content; a tell a story process module for creating a recorded audio visual story capable of being played back by the one or more users by permitting the one or more users to access previously existing multimedia content available to the one or more computer devices, to review the new or previously existing content from the one or more computer devices from within the platform, to edit the new or previously existing content from the one or more computer devices from within the platform, and/or to delete the new or previously existing content from the one or more computer devices; wherein the step of editing the preexisting one or more visual content images and/or one or more visual content videos comprises selecting the desired visual content for display within the audio visual story, recording any desired audio content to accompany any of such selected visual content, such audio content being tied to such respective visual content so that such audio content becomes audible when such selected visual content is displayed during the playback of the recorded story; a save a story process module for permitting the one or more users to store the recorded content on the one or more computer devices, a platform server or a platform cloud-based storage system; and a share a story process module for permitting the one or more users to share the recorded content with others.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the user content comprises information, data, metadata, and historical content associated with such user.