20140185934 | PROCESS AND SYSTEM FOR AUTHENTICATING OWNERSHIP OF A PHYSICAL BOOK TO A THIRD PARTY VIA A MOBILE APPLICATION - A user's mobile device has an application that, when employed, verifies and authenticates to a third party that the user has ownership of a physical book. Use of the application's process allows unique identification of each book by means of ISBN lookup in conjunction with a) signature image analysis or b) a generated unique identifier code, and assigns that book to the user's account. User possession of the book is associated with ownership in the user's account and ownership is authenticated by assigning the unique book to the user's account. Fraud or multiple use prevention is built into the application and process. Evidence of authentication is sent to the interested third party for use in distribution of e-books in a manner contingent on ownership of the physical book. | 07-03-2014 |