Jeffrey Mesnik

US Patent:

20070250467, Oct 25, 2007

Filed:

Apr 24, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/409928

Inventors:

Peter Mesnik - Needham MA, US
Jeffrey Mesnik - Needham MA, US
David Fish - Manchester By the Sea MA, US

Assignee:

iMakeNews, Inc. - Waltham MA

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707 1

Abstract:

The invention, in various embodiments, provides systems and methods directed to tiered delivery of content to viewers. At each tier of the delivery process, content providers and/or authors may modify and/or customize a portion of the content based, at least in part, on tags associated with the content and user profiles of the viewers. In particular, the invention includes a method for providing content over a network from a provider to a plurality of user groups, including a first user group and a second user group, comprising managing and publishing the content, from the provider, being provided to the first user group, receiving and managing, by at least one member of the first user group, the published content, identifying, by at least one member of the first user group, a second user group for receiving the content, the second user group being different from the first user group; accessing, by at least one member of the second user group, the content; and tagging, by at least one of the provider and one member of the first user group, one or more portions of the content with one or more tags, each tag being associated with at least one portion of the content.