# US 2014/0193028 A1 · Apparatus and method to embed searchable information into a file, encryption, transmission, storage and retrieval

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- Number: US 2014/0193028 A1
- Document ID: US20140193028A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 14/175,321
- Filed: 2014-02-07
- Published: 2014-07-10
- Earliest claimed: 2002-09-30
- Assignees: Myport Technologies, Inc.
- Applicants: Myport Technologies, Inc.
- Inventors: MICHAEL F. MALONE; FREDERICK J. MURPHY
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20140193028A1

## CPC

- G06T 1/005: {Robust watermarking, e.g. average attack or collusion attack resistant}
- H04L 9/0643: {Hash functions, e.g. MD5, SHA, HMAC or f9 MAC}
- H04L 9/08: Key distribution {or management, e.g. generation, sharing or updating, of cryptographic keys or passwords (network architectures or network communication protocols for supporting key management in a packet data network H04L63/06)}
- H04L 9/0825: {using asymmetric-key encryption or public key infrastructure [PKI], e.g. key signature or public key certificates}
- H04L 9/14: using a plurality of keys or algorithms
- H04L 9/302: {involving the integer factorization problem, e.g. RSA or quadratic sieve [QS] schemes}
- H04L 9/3218: {using proof of knowledge, e.g. Fiat-Shamir, GQ, Schnorr, ornon-interactive zero-knowledge proofs}
- H04L 9/3221: {interactive zero-knowledge proofs}
- H04L 9/3239: {involving non-keyed hash functions, e.g. modification detection codes [MDCs], MD5, SHA or RIPEMD}
- H04L 9/3247: {involving digital signatures}
- H04L 9/3249: {using RSA or related signature schemes, e.g. Rabin scheme}
- H04L 9/3263: {involving certificates, e.g. public key certificate [PKC] or attribute certificate [AC]; Public key infrastructure [PKI] arrangements (network architectures or network communication protocols for supporting authentication of entities using certificates in a packet data network H04L63/0823)}
- H04L 9/3271: {using challenge-response}
- H04L 63/0442: {wherein the sending and receiving network entities apply asymmetric encryption, i.e. different keys for encryption and decryption (cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for public-key encryption H04L9/30)}
- H04L 63/045: {wherein the sending and receiving network entities apply hybrid encryption, i.e. combination of symmetric and asymmetric encryption (cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements using a plurality of keys or algorithms H04L9/14)}
- H04L 63/0478: {applying multiple layers of encryption, e.g. nested tunnels or encrypting the content with a first key and then with at least a second key (cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements using a plurality of keys or algorithms H04L9/14)}
- H04N 1/32101: {Display, printing, storage or transmission of additional information, e.g. ID code, date and time or title}
- H04N 1/32272: {Encryption or ciphering}
- H04N 1/32277: {Compression}
- H04L 2209/60: Digital content management, e.g. content distribution
- H04L 2209/608: Watermarking
- H04L 2209/80: Wireless
- H04N 2201/0084: Digital still camera
- H04N 2201/3205: of identification information, e.g. name or ID code (H04N2201/3209 takes precedence)
- H04N 2201/3214: of a date
- H04N 2201/3215: of a time or duration
- H04N 2201/3233: of authentication information, e.g. digital signature, watermark
- H04N 2201/3235: Checking or certification of the authentication information, e.g. by comparison with data stored independently
- H04N 2201/3253: Position information, e.g. geographical position at time of capture, GPS data
- H04N 2201/3274: Storage or retrieval of prestored additional information
- H04N 2201/3281: Encryption; Ciphering
- H04N 2201/3283: Compression
- G06T: IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
- H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M)
- H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

## Abstract

A cell phone is disclosed for acquiring information to be transmitted to a receiving facility and for transmitting such thereto. A capture device captures information from an external source. A stamping device is provided for associating with the captured information a representation of the date and time of the capture of the information, such that the representation of the date and time information in association with the captured information forms augmented captured information. A data processing unit places the augmented captured information in association with subscriber information in a transmission of the augmented captured information to a receiving facility requiring such subscriber information. A transmitter transmits the transmission including the augmented captured information and the subscriber information to the receiving facility. The data processing unit encrypts the augmented captured information with a symmetrical encryption algorithm to provide encrypted augmented captured information in the transmission with the subscriber information.

## Claims

### Claim at position 1

1-6. (canceled)

### Claim 7

A cell phone for acquiring information to be transmitted to a receiving facility and for transmitting such thereto, comprising:
a capture device for capturing the information;
a stamping device for associating with the captured information a representation of the date and time of the capture of the information, such that said representation of the date and time information in association with the captured information forms augmented captured information;
a data processing unit for placing the augmented captured information in association with subscriber information in a transmission of the augmented captured information to a receiving facility requiring such subscriber information; and
a transmitter for transmitting said transmission including the augmented captured information and the subscriber information to said receiving facility;
wherein the data processing unit encrypts the augmented captured information with a symmetrical encryption algorithm in a first layer to provide encrypted augmented captured information which is included in the transmission with the subscriber information transmitted by the transmitter in said transmission.

### Claim 8 (depends on 7)

The cell phone of claim 7, and wherein the data processing unit further encrypts the first layer encrypted augmented captured information with a second layer of encryption utilizing an asymmetrical encryption algorithm to provide the encrypted augmented information.

### Claim 9 (depends on 8)

The cell phone of claim 8, wherein the asymmetrical encryption algorithm utilizes a public key for encryption and a private key is required for decryption.

### Claim 10 (depends on 8)

The cell phone of claim 8, wherein the data processing system adds identifying information to the first and second layer encrypted augmented information wherein the identifying information identifies the party claiming to have created the augmented captured information and then further encrypts the first and second layer encrypted augmented information with the added identifying information with a third layer of encryption with an asymmetrical encryption algorithm to provide the encrypted augmented information.

### Claim 11 (depends on 10)

The cell phone of claim 10, wherein the third layer asymmetrical encryption algorithm utilizes a public key of a third party.

### Claim 12 (depends on 10)

The cell phone of claim 10, wherein the identifying information comprises the subscriber information.

### Claim 13 (depends on 12)

The cell phone of claim 12, wherein the data processing system creates a hash corresponding to augmented captured information and storing this hash value in association with the first layer encrypted augmented information prior to encryption with the second layer encryption operation such that decryption down to the first layer encrypted augmented information will allow recovery of the added hash value and processing of the first layer encrypted augmented information through a message digest algorithm will allow matching of the recovered and generated hash values.

### Claim 14

A cell phone for acquiring information to be transmitted to a receiving facility and for transmitting such thereto, comprising:
a capture device for capturing the information;
a stamping device for associating with the captured information a representation of the date and time of the capture of the information, such that said representation of the date and time information in association with the captured information forms augmented captured information;
a data processing unit for placing the augmented captured information in association with subscriber information in a transmission of the augmented captured information to a receiving facility requiring such subscriber information; and
a transmitter for transmitting said transmission including the augmented captured information and the subscriber information to said receiving facility;
wherein the receiving facility comprises a secure server.

### Claim 15 (depends on 14)

The cell phone of claim 14, wherein the secure server comprises an e-mail server.

### Claim 16

A cell phone for acquiring information to be transmitted to a receiving facility and for transmitting such thereto, comprising:
a capture device for capturing the information;
a stamping device for associating with the captured information a representation of the date and time of the capture of the information, such that said representation of the date and time information in association with the captured information forms augmented captured information;
a data processing unit for placing the augmented captured information in association with subscriber information in a transmission of the augmented captured information to a receiving facility requiring such subscriber information; and
a transmitter for transmitting said transmission including the augmented captured information and the subscriber information to said receiving facility;
wherein the transmitter transmits the transmission to a receiving facility that restricts access thereto to only authorized individuals.

### Claim 17

A cell phone for acquiring information to be transmitted to a receiving facility and for transmitting such thereto, comprising:
a capture device for capturing the information from a first medium where information varies in real time and converting it to time invariant information in a second media;
a stamping device for associating with the captured information a representation of the date and time of the capture of the information, such that said representation of the date and time information in association with the captured information forms augmented captured information;
a data processing unit, the data processing unit:
encrypting the augmented captured information as encrypted augmented captured information,
adding identifying information to the encrypted augmented captured information to provide an identifiable encrypted file, wherein the identifying information identifies the party claiming to have created the augmented captured information for later identification of such,
placing the identifiable encrypted file including the augmented captured information in association with subscriber information in a transmission of the identifiable encrypted file including the identifiable encrypted file that includes the augmented captured information to a receiving facility requiring such subscriber information; and
a transmitter for transmitting said transmission including the identifiable encrypted file and the subscriber information to said receiving facility.

### Claim 18 (depends on 17)

The cell phone of claim 17, wherein the stamping device is operable to associate the captured information with a representation of location information representing the location of said capture device at the time of the capture of the information as augmented capture information.

### Claim 19 (depends on 17)

The cell phone of claim 17, wherein said stamping device includes a geographical position and time-of-day determination (GPS) receiver for providing such location information.

### Claim 20 (depends on 17)

The cell phone of claim 17, wherein the receiving facility is an email server.

### Claim 21 (depends on 20)

The cell phone of claim 20, wherein the transmission is formatted for transmission to the email server.

### Claim 22 (depends on 17)

The cell phone of claim 17, wherein the data processing unit encrypts the augmented captured information with a symmetrical encryption algorithm in a first layer to provide the encrypted augmented captured information which is included in the transmission with the subscriber information transmitted by the transmitter in said transmission.

### Claim 23 (depends on 22)

The cell phone of claim 22, and wherein the data processing unit further encrypts the first layer encrypted augmented captured information with a second layer of encryption utilizing an asymmetrical encryption algorithm to provide a two layer encrypted file, which has the identifiable information added thereto to provide the identifiable encrypted file.

### Claim 24 (depends on 23)

The cell phone of claim 23, wherein the asymmetrical encryption algorithm utilizes a public key for encryption and a private key is required for decryption.

### Claim 25 (depends on 23)

The cell phone of claim 23, wherein the data processing system further encrypts identifiable encrypted file including the first and second layer encrypted augmented information with the added identifying information with a third layer of encryption with an asymmetrical encryption algorithm to provide a three layer encrypted file for transmission in said transmission with the subscriber information.

### Claim 26 (depends on 25)

The cell phone of claim 25, wherein the third layer asymmetrical encryption algorithm utilizes a public key of a third party.

### Claim 27 (depends on 25)

The cell phone of claim 25, wherein the identifying information comprises the subscriber information.

### Claim 28

A cell phone for acquiring information to be transmitted to a receiving facility and for transmitting such thereto, comprising:
a capture device for capturing the information from a first medium where information varies in real time and converting it to time invariant information in a second media;
a stamping device for associating with the captured information a representation of the date and time of the capture of the information, such that said representation of the date and time information in association with the captured information forms augmented captured information;
a data processing unit, the data processing unit:
encrypting the augmented captured information with a bottom layer of encryption as an encrypted file that provides a first level of encryption of the augmented captured information,
adding identifying information to the encrypted augmented captured information at the bottom layer, wherein the identifying information identifies the party claiming to have created the augmented captured information for later identification of such,
encrypting the combined augmented captured information and identifying information with a top layer of encryption as an identifiable encrypted file wherein at least the bottom layer utilizes a symmetrical encryption algorithm,
placing the identifiable encrypted file including the augmented captured information in association with subscriber information in a transmission of the identifiable encrypted file including the identifiable encrypted file that includes the augmented captured information to a receiving facility requiring such subscriber information; and
a transmitter for transmitting said transmission including the identifiable encrypted file and the subscriber information to said receiving facility.

### Claim 29 (depends on 28)

The cell phone of claim 28, wherein the receiving facility is an email server.

### Claim 30 (depends on 29)

The cell phone of claim 29, wherein the transmission is formatted for transmission to the email server.

### Claim 31 (depends on 28)

The cell phone of claim 28, and wherein the data processing unit further encrypts the bottom layer encrypted augmented captured information with a middle layer of encryption utilizing an asymmetrical encryption algorithm to provide a two layer encrypted file, which has the identifiable information added thereto to provide the identifiable encrypted file.

### Claim 32 (depends on 31)

The cell phone of claim 31, wherein the asymmetrical encryption algorithm utilizes a public key for encryption and a private key is required for decryption.

### Claim 33 (depends on 31)

The cell phone of claim 31, wherein top layer of encryption utilizes an asymmetrical encryption algorithm to provide a three layer encrypted file for transmission in said transmission with the subscriber information.

### Claim 34 (depends on 33)

The cell phone of claim 33, wherein the top layer asymmetrical encryption algorithm utilizes a public key of a third party.

### Claim 35 (depends on 33)

The cell phone of claim 33, wherein the identifying information comprises the subscriber information.

### Claim 36

A cell phone for acquiring information to be transmitted to a receiving facility and for transmitting such thereto, comprising:
a capture device for capturing the information from a first medium where information varies in real time and converting it to time invariant information in a second media;
a stamping device for associating with the captured information a representation of the date and time of the capture of the information, such that said representation of the date and time information in association with the captured information forms augmented captured information;
a data processing unit, the data processing unit:
encrypting the augmented captured information with a bottom layer of encryption as an encrypted file that provides a first level of encryption of the augmented captured information utilizing a symmetrical encryption algorithm,
encrypting the bottom layer encrypted augmented captured information with a middle layer of encryption utilizing an asymmetrical encryption algorithm to provide a two layer encrypted file,
adding identifying information to the two layer encrypted file, wherein the identifying information identifies the party claiming to have created the augmented captured information for later identification of such,
encrypting the combined two layer encrypted file and identifying information with a top layer of encryption to provide an identifiable encrypted file,
placing the identifiable encrypted file including the encrypted augmented captured information in association with subscriber information in a transmission of the identifiable encrypted file including the identifiable encrypted file that includes the encrypted augmented captured information to an email requiring such subscriber information and wherein the identifying information comprises the subscriber information; and
a transmitter for transmitting said transmission including the identifiable encrypted file and the subscriber information to said email server.

### Claim 37

A cell phone for acquiring information to be transmitted to a receiving facility and for transmitting such thereto, comprising:
a capture device for capturing the information from a first medium where information varies in real time and converting it to time invariant information in a second media;
a stamping device for associating with the captured information a representation of the date and time of the capture of the information in addition to location information of the capture device, such that said representation of the date and time information and location information in association with the captured information forms augmented captured information;
a data processing unit, the data processing unit:
encrypting the augmented captured information as encrypted augmented captured information,
adding identifying information to the encrypted augmented captured information to provide an identifiable encrypted file, wherein the identifying information identifies the party claiming to have created the augmented captured information for later identification of such,
placing the identifiable encrypted file including the augmented captured information in association with subscriber information in a transmission of the identifiable encrypted file including the identifiable encrypted file that includes the augmented captured information to an email server requiring such subscriber information, wherein the identifying information comprises the subscriber information; and
a transmitter for transmitting said transmission including the identifiable encrypted file and the subscriber information to said email server.