Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20080071886
Filing Date: December 29, 2006
Inventors: Wesley Scott Ashton, Rama Roberts, Roy Roberts
Assignee:
Current U.S. Classification: 709, 709/219000, 707, 707/003000
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A system for obtaining authority to copy content from a website accessible on an internet, comprising:
(a) one or more websites operably connected via an internet, wherein each computer website comprises content and one or more flags associated with the content, wherein each flag provides an authority level for copying a portion or all of the associated content;
(b) a database operably connected to receive transmissions from the internet; and
(c) a web crawler configured to operate via the internet to search the one or more websites to identify the one or more flags, wherein when the web crawler identifies one or more of the flags, the web crawler copies content associated with the identified flag and sends the copied content to the first database via the internet, and the first database stores the copied content.