Subscription apparatus and method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10825029-B2
Application number	US-51733606-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 8, 2006
Priority date	Sep 9, 2005
Publication date	Nov 3, 2020
Grant date	Nov 3, 2020

Abstract

The present invention relates to a web-based software application, in which a server at a publisher compiles a predetermined list of items, such as regulatory, contract, budgeting, and legal issues, and stores them for periodic download to a client. The client would subscribe to the publisher, to receive information on a predetermined set of items. Periodically the server will scan its database and according to the client subscription, will retrieve and forward the predetermined items desired, to the client. The forwarded items will be compiled by the client and presented to the user in an easily viewable and searchable format. The user may choose a particular item to review, and then, if the user determines the item to be a relevant one, the user may transfer the item information to a monitoring software application for future monitoring and/or internal implementation as an issue.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system comprising:
a database storing content received from a plurality of third party organizations, wherein the content comprises a plurality of individual data records including law related to an industry of one or more subscribers and regulations related to an industry of the one or more subscribers;
one or more processors to:
receive the content from the plurality of third party organizations;
store the content as individual data records at the database; and
organize the database into one or more channels, wherein the one or more channels are constructed based on a set of channel rules that group a subset of the individual data records into a channel based at least on a relation of the individual data records to a defined industry, and wherein the set of channel rules group one or more of the individual data records into more than one channel of the one or more channels based on the relation of the individual data records to more than one defined industry;

an interactive graphical user interface executable by the one or more processors to:
provide access to the content stored in the database for the one or more subscribers, wherein providing access to the content includes:
presenting at least a portion of the individual data records to a subscriber according to a set of subscription rules that limit at least the portion of the individual data records presented to individual data records that are organized into one or more channels identified based on subscription preferences of the subscriber, wherein at least the portion of the individual data records presented at the interactive graphical user interface is a reduced set of the individual data records stored at the database that omits one or more individual data records based on subscription preferences of the subscriber;

receive disposition designations from the one or more subscribers, wherein each of the disposition designations relate to at least one item of content stored in the database, wherein the disposition designations are received by:
receiving a first input from a user identifying a first individual data record of the individual data records as being of interest,
receiving a second input from the user identifying a second individual data record of the individual data records as being not of interest, and
receiving a third input from the user identifying a third individual data record of the individual data records as being resolved;

transfer information associated with disposition designations to an issue tracking and monitoring application operatively connected to the interactive graphical user interface in response to input of the disposition designations by the one or more subscribers;
present an interactive mapping element that receives user inputs that map a first jurisdiction to a second jurisdiction, wherein the first jurisdiction is associated with an item of content stored in the database and the second jurisdiction is associated with an issue designated for tracking by the issue tracking and monitoring application;
present a remember mappings element within the graphical user interface, the remember mappings element that saves mapping data generated by the user, wherein the saved mapping data maps other items of content to the second jurisdiction during a subsequent access of the graphical user interface by the user,

wherein the issue tracking and monitoring application is executable by the one or more processors to:
receive the information associated with the disposition designations;
generate a mapping of content stored in the database to one or more jurisdictions based on the information associated with the disposition designations and the user inputs;
monitor the content stored in the database to detect changes to the content associated with the mapping data;
generate one or more notifications to the one or more subscribers based on detected changes to the content associated with the mapping; and
transmit the one or more notifications to the one or more subscribers via one or more networks.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the detected changes to the content associated with the mapping comprise at least one change selected from the group consisting of: addition of new content related to the content stored in the database, modification of the content stored in the database, a priority of the content stored in the database, an enactment date associated with content stored in the database, an effective date associated with the content stored in the database, a source of the content stored in the database, and a citation associated with the content stored in the database.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to organize the content stored at the database into one or more channels, and wherein the interactive graphical user interface is configured to receive user subscription preferences from each of the one or more subscribers, wherein, for each of the one or more subscribers, the user subscription preferences identify one or more channels to which a user subscribes.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the one or more channels are constructed based on a set of channel rules that group a subset of the individual data records into a channel based at least on a relation of the individual data records to a defined industry.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the set of channel rules group one or more of the individual data records into more than one channel of the one or more channels based on a relation of the individual data records to more than one defined industry.

6. The system of claim 3 , wherein, for each of the one or more subscribers, the user subscription preferences identify user selected filters, and wherein the interactive graphical user interface controls access to the one or more channels to which a particular user has subscribed based on a set of channels to which the particular user has subscribed and subscription preferences of the particular user.

7. The system of claim 6 , wherein one or more individual data records are omitted from the presented at least the portion of the individual data records according to a set of filtering rules based on filters indicated in the subscription preferences of the particular user.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the filtering rules are based on at least one criterion selected from the list consisting of: keywords, a channel, a topic, jurisdictions, date, read status, disposition, and priority.

9. The system of claim 7 , wherein the filtering rules are based on at least one criterion selected from the list consisting of: information that identifies content of interest, a subscribed channel, a topic, one or more identified jurisdictions, one or more dispositions, and one or more dates.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the interactive graphical user interface displays information associated with at least one item of content stored at the database, the information associate with the at least one item of content comprising data selected from the list consisting of: details of one or more individual data records corresponding to the at least one item of content, a list of attachments associated with the at least one item of content, notes, history information associated with the at least one item of content, and information associated with issues related to the at least one item of content.

11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the issue tracking and monitoring application detects the changes to the content associated with the mapping based at least in part on a scan of the content stored at the database.

12. The system of claim 11 , where the issue tracking and monit

Assignees

• Oden William R
• Galloway Matthew D
• Murray Monica A
• Nelson Daniel
• Baumgartner Joseph
• Refinitiv Us Organization Llc

Inventors

• Oden William R
• Galloway Matthew D
• Murray Monica A
• Nelson Daniel
• Baumgartner Joseph

Classifications

• G06Q30/02 Primary

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