URL to Standard Publication Identifier Conversion
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Solution Overview
Problem
Determining reuse rights for content across multiple licenses and subscriptions is a time-consuming, manual process, often leading to overspending or infringement, due to the difficulty in connecting publications to relevant agreements and extracting useful information from URLs.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that automatically convert a universal resource locator (URL) into a standard publication identifier using parser rules and translation rules, allowing for efficient determination of applicable reuse rights by mapping URLs to standard identifiers and resolving conflicts between agreements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a manual review process is used to determine reuse rights by examining all license agreements, then comprehensive rights assessment can be achieved, but the process becomes time-consuming and labor-intensive
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the manual mechanical review process with an automated computer-based system that uses algorithms to parse URLs, match publications to agreements, and determine reuse rights. This substitution maintains comprehensive rights assessment accuracy while dramatically reducing the time and labor required by automating the entire workflow from URL input to rights determination.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary automated processing system that acts as a bridge between the URL/input and the final rights determination. This intermediary system automatically parses URLs, extracts publication information, matches against agreement databases, and resolves conflicts, thereby eliminating the need for manual examination while maintaining comprehensive assessment capabilities.
2Reliability
If embedding special tags in publications is used to link to rights agreements, then direct connection to agreements can be achieved, but it requires re-publishing older publications which is prohibitively expensive
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of modifying the original publication by embedding tags, the patent creates a separate mapping layer that copies and processes URL information from existing publications. This approach maintains reliable connection between publications and agreements through URL parsing and database matching without requiring any modifications to the original publications, thereby avoiding re-publishing costs entirely.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary URL parsing and matching system that connects publications to agreements without requiring direct modification of the publications themselves. This intermediary layer processes URL information and matches it against agreement databases, achieving reliable connections while avoiding the costly tag embedding process.
3Reliability
If multiple licenses and subscriptions are purchased to ensure coverage of all possible reuse scenarios, then comprehensive rights coverage can be achieved, but the organization risks overspending on duplicate rights
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism that automatically analyzes the organization's existing licenses and subscriptions, identifies overlaps and duplicate rights coverage, and provides recommendations for optimization. This feedback loop enables the organization to maintain comprehensive rights coverage while eliminating redundant purchases by continuously monitoring and adjusting the rights portfolio based on actual usage patterns and agreement overlaps.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary analysis system that acts as a mediator between multiple licenses and subscriptions, automatically identifying overlaps and coordinating rights coverage. This system analyzes all existing agreements, determines which rights are already covered, and prevents duplicate spending by directing future purchases only for gaps in coverage rather than redundant rights.
4Reliability
If knowledge workers manually review all license agreements before using content, then infringement risk can be minimized, but productivity decreases due to the time required
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the manual mechanical review process with an automated computer-based system that instantly determines reuse rights by parsing URLs and matching against agreement databases. This substitution maintains infringement avoidance reliability by comprehensively analyzing all applicable agreements while dramatically improving productivity by eliminating the time-consuming manual review process entirely.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary automated analysis of all license agreements and rights coverage before the knowledge worker needs to use content. By pre-processing URL parsing, agreement matching, and rights determination in advance, the system eliminates the need for manual review at the point of use, thereby maintaining infringement avoidance while significantly improving productivity.
Data Source
AI summary
A method and apparatus that automatically converts a universal resource locator that specifies a location for a publication into a standard publication identifier that identifies the publication uses a plurality of parser rules, each parser rule being adapted to extract data fields for a particular form of universal resource locator. One of the parser rules is selected based on a domain in the universal resource locator and used to parse the universal resource locator to generate data field values. A plurality of translation rules are used, each translation rule accepting one or more data fields as inputs. When the generated data field values match the inputs of a translation rule, that translation rule is used to create a standard publication identifier.