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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsFerdinand Gramsamer, Peter Micheal Klett, Beat Liver, Hong Linh Truong
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The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for maintaining an organized and automated archiving and retrieval system including a personal bibliography of original documents or other original real objects as well as an electronic archive containing copies of such original real objects with guaranteed access. Essentially this is done by establishing a machine and/or human readable “unique identifier” (UID) distributed with each original real object, a so-called personal archive allowing a person (or a group of persons) to maintain a personal bibliography, a managed storage containing electronic copies of the distributed original real objects, and means for a controlled, but guaranteed access to the stored electronic copies. The unique identifier UID will be established and controlled, usually by a service provider, and attached to each original (document) when it is distributed, usually by the publisher, so that it can be read by the user, preferably with a simple reader for entering it electronically into his personal archive. The personal archive may be maintained either by the person or by another (or the same) service provider, but is personalized in the sense that the user determines the contents of his/her archive. A controlled access system with access certificates, which may be time-limited, issued to the requesting user guarantees user access to the stored electrinic copies. Access control will again be provided as service, be it by the publisher or any of the service providers mentioned.
A method for managing a personal e-document archive of e-documents within a larger collection of e-documents including depositing and making available an electronic copy (E) of a real object to a first party as user (U) as part of the first party's personal e-document archive by a second party (P) within the second party's e-document archive, said method comprising
A method for managing a personal e-document archive of e-documents within a larger collection of e-documents including archiving and retrieving an electronic copy (E) of a real object in a system with a plurality of e-documents and a plurality of first parties as users (U) and at least one second party (P or S) for distributing and/or providing archiving and retrieving services, said method comprising
Arrangement for depositing and making available an electronic copy (E) of a real object to a first party as user (U) as part of an arrangement for managing a personal e-document archive of e-documents within a larger collection of e-documents including by a second party (P) and/or a third party (S), comprising
Arrangement for a first party (U) to obtain an access right to a deposited electronic copy (E) of a real object, as part of an arrangement for managing a personal e-document archive of e-documents within a larger collection of e-documents comprising
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