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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2016

Filed:

Nov. 14, 2014
Applicant:

Attributor Corporation, San Mateo, CA (US);

Inventors:

James L. Brock, Santa Cruz, CA (US);

James E. Pitkow, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Attributor Corporation, San Mateo, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/04 (2006.01); G06F 21/10 (2013.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G11B 20/00 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/10 (2013.01); G06F 17/30864 (2013.01); G06F 17/30867 (2013.01); G11B 20/00173 (2013.01); H04L 63/0263 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0247 (2013.01);
Abstract

This disclosure relates, e.g., to governing distribution of content on a web-based service. One aspect of the disclosure relates to a system comprising various interfaces, e.g., for: i) receiving content posted to a web-based service, for distribution by the web-based service to the public, and ii) presenting for review one or more items of user-posted content hosted by the web-based service that are identified as a match with identified copyrighted content, and receiving, via an interface for use in confirming the match, information regarding the match, ii) distributing the received content from the web-based service along with an attribution associated with the identified copyrighted content. A great variety of other aspects, claims, features and arrangements are also detailed.


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