US 12,248,537 B2
Systems and methods for uniform usage rights management
Richard Fitzhugh Clements, San Francisco, CA (US); Michele Irene Kelsey, San Francisco, CA (US); and Anya Milstein, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to VendEx Solutions, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by VendEx Solutions, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on May 23, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/673,096.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/469,218, filed on May 26, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0394342 A1, Nov. 28, 2024
Int. Cl. G06Q 20/00 (2012.01); G06F 21/10 (2013.01); G06Q 50/18 (2012.01)
CPC G06F 21/101 (2023.08) [G06Q 50/18 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising: receiving usage rights information associated with a property, wherein the usage rights information includes one or more usage rights terms, wherein each of the one or more usage rights terms is indicative of a permission or restriction associated with the property; determining, for each of the one or more usage rights terms, i) a use category, ii) an action attribute associated with the use category, and iii) a provision attribute associated with the use category and the action attribute, wherein the use category, the action attribute, and the provision attribute together represent at least a portion of the respective permission or restriction associated with the respective usage right term; identifying, for each of the determined usage rights categories, an alphanumeric category code; identifying, for each of the determined action attributes, an alphanumeric action attribute code; identifying, for each of the determined provision attributes, an alphanumeric provision attribute code; generating one or more substring codes based at least in part on the one or more alphanumeric category codes, the one or more alphanumeric action attribute codes, and the one or more alphanumeric provision attribute codes; and generating a usage rights code (URC) for the property based at least in part on each of the one or more substring codes, the URC being representative of the one or more usage rights terms.