System and method for providing an updating on-line forms and registrations
OwnerC. Douglass Thomasinventor
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Abstract
Improved approaches to completing, submitting and updating on-line forms or registrations are disclosed. In one embodiment, an on-line form completion agent or an on-line registration agent intelligently guides an on-line form completion or registration process. In another embodiment, a registration is automatically monitored to determine whether and when the registration needs updated.
Claims28
A computer-implemented method for determining whether a copyright registration update is needed, said method comprising:
- comparing at least a portion of a website against a corresponding portion of an earlier stored version of the website that was previously subject to a copyright registration with the U.S. Copyright Office to produce a change indication;
- determining that the copyright registration update is needed for the website based on the change indication;
- producing copyright registration application information when it is determined that the copyright registration update is needed for the website;
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- storing the copyright registration application information.
A program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly storing a program of computer instructions executable by the machine to determine whether a copyright registration update is needed, said program storage device comprising:
- computer instructions for comparing at least a portion of a website against data for a corresponding portion of an earlier version of the website that was previously subject to a copyright registration with the U.S. Copyright Office to produce a change indication;
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- computer instructions for determining that the copyright registration update is needed for the website based on the change indication.
A computer-implemented method for detecting a need to update a prior copyright registration for at least a portion of a website provided on a network, said method comprising:
- (a) monitoring changes to the at least a portion of the website to determine a change value;
- (b) comparing the change value with a threshold value;
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- (c) determining the need to update the prior copyright registration of the at least a portion of the website when the change value exceeds the threshold value.
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