Content Editing Software With Auditable Human–AI Authorship Tokens

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Solution Overview

Problem

Traditional content editing software lacks the capability to accurately distinguish between human-authored and artificially-authored content, particularly in cases of mixed authorship, leading to inefficiencies in training data quality, security, and compliance issues.

Innovation Solution

Implementing authorship tokens within content editing software to automatically identify and label regions of content as being authored by humans or artificial intelligence, using methods such as detecting edits through human interface devices and applying tokens to content during editing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If traditional content editing software is used without authorship tracking, then the software is simple and easy to operate, but it cannot distinguish between human-authored and artificially-authored content leading to data quality and compliance issues

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveauthorship attribution accuracyVSAvoidsoftware complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces authorship tokens as intermediary elements that mediate between the content editing functionality and the authorship attribution requirement. These tokens are automatically generated and attached to content regions, serving as a bridge that enables precise authorship tracking without fundamentally altering the core editing software architecture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent segments content into distinct regions with associated authorship tokens, allowing individual tracking of human-authored versus artificially-generated portions. This segmentation enables precise measurement of authorship attribution while maintaining the overall structure of the content editing system.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Reliability

If authorship tokens are implemented to track content provenance, then training data quality and security are improved, but the device complexity and operational overhead increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent provenance trackingVSAvoidoperational simplicity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The authorship token system operates autonomously, automatically generating and attaching tokens to content regions without requiring manual intervention from users. The system self-manages the tracking of human versus artificial authorship, reducing operational overhead while maintaining reliable provenance records.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

Authorship tokens are generated and attached to content regions in advance, before any compliance review or data quality assessment is needed. This preliminary action ensures that provenance information is already available when required, eliminating the need for retroactive analysis and simplifying operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Loss of information

If manual tracking of authorship is attempted, then some provenance information can be captured, but it is time-consuming and error-prone reducing productivity

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprovenance information completenessVSAvoidcontent creation efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces manual, mechanical tracking methods with an automated computational system that uses algorithms to detect and attribute authorship. This substitution eliminates human error and time-consuming manual processes while maintaining complete provenance information, thereby preserving content creation efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously monitors content creation activities and provides real-time feedback by attaching authorship tokens as content is generated. This immediate feedback loop ensures complete provenance capture without interrupting the content creation flow, maintaining high productivity while preventing information loss.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS12462318B2Content editing software via automatic and auditable authorship attribution
Publication Date: 2025.11.04 US BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
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AI summary

A content editor or a plugin thereto automatically generates authorship tokens that identify content authored by a human author or an artificial author. The authorship tokens are applied to the work while the work is being produced. Thus, subsequent review of the work can identify regions produced by a human author and other regions produced by an artificial intelligence.