Patent Document ID: 8909708
Application ID: 13608047

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for confirming authorship of documents, performed on a server having at least one processor and memory storing at least one program for execution by the at least one processor to perform the method, comprising: accessing a first document hosted on a first website of a first domain, the first document being indirectly linked to a second document through at least one link in a chain of links, a respective link in the chain of links including a first predefined authorship attribute asserting authorship of a respective document including the respective link by a respective entity associated with a respective target document of the respective link; and conditionally confirming authorship of the first document by an entity associated with the second document when the second document includes a second link to the first website of the first domain, the second link including a second predefined authorship attribute indicating that the entity associated with the second document is an author of or contributor to content at the first website of the first domain.

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Claim 2:
2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein prior to conditionally confirming the authorship of the first document by the entity associated with the second document includes: identifying a first link in the first document that links to the second document, wherein the first link includes the first predefined authorship attribute; accessing the second document; and determining that the second document includes the second link including the second predefined authorship attribute.