US 11,726,965 B2
User-directed digital asset vault
Kenneth Lee Saunders, Sandy, UT (US); and Stephen William Shillingford, Salt Lake City, UT (US)
Filed by Rearden Ventures Inc., Salt Lake City, UT (US)
Filed on Nov. 26, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/697,170.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/771,528, filed on Nov. 26, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0167318 A1, May 28, 2020
Int. Cl. G06F 16/18 (2019.01); H04L 9/06 (2006.01); G06F 16/176 (2019.01); G06F 16/11 (2019.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 16/1815 (2019.01) [G06F 16/113 (2019.01); G06F 16/176 (2019.01); G06F 21/604 (2013.01); H04L 9/0637 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A digital asset vault system, comprising:
a processor and a computer-readable medium with instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to implement a set of modules with which a user may interact via one or more graphical user interfaces (GUIs) displayed on an electronic display, the set of modules including:
a profile module to receive personal data from a user and create a personal account for the user accessible via user access credentials;
a circle management module to enable the user to:
connect to other users of the digital asset vault system,
create a first connected-user group with a first subset of other users connected to the user, and
create a second connected-user group with a second subset of other users connected to the user, wherein the first subset of other users and the second subset of other users are not equal;
a content curation module to upload a first digital content item provided by the user;
an invitation module to:
receive a request from the user to invite one of the other users to edit the uploaded first digital content item, and
transmit an invitation to edit the uploaded first digital content item to the requested other user;
a template module to:
receive a selection of a first template from the user,
receive a second digital content item from the user specified for use with the selected first template, and
generate a customized template content item for the user by combining the selected first template with the second digital content item;
a digital trustee module to:
receive, from the user, identification of an entity to be a digital rights trustee upon the death of the user, and
generate trustee access credentials to be provided to the digital rights trustee upon the death of the user, wherein the trustee access credentials are different from the user access credentials; and
a death-file module to:
receive, from the user, identification of at least some of the stored content items as death-file content items, and
receive, from the user, specified actions to be automatically executed upon the death of the user in response to access by the digital rights trustee using the trustee access credentials, including at least:
identification of at least one death-file content item to be shared with a third party upon the death of the user, and
identification of at least one death-file content item to be deleted upon the death of the user such that the at least one death-file content item is never accessible to the digital rights trustee, and
execute, automatically in response to detected account access by the digital rights trustee using the trustee access credentials and without human intervention, the specified actions.