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US 9,003,548 B2Granted
Method and system for digital rights management of documents
AssigneeNL Systems, LLC
InventorVlad Pigin
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Abstract
A method and system of encrypting and decrypting documents and recipient rights.
Claims17
A method for sending an electronic document and/or message from a sender to a recipient, the method performed by a hardware processor and comprising:
- allowing the sender to select an electronic document to encrypt and send to the recipient;
- allowing the sender to select a set of recipient rights for the selected document;
- generating a graphic representation of the selected document in response to the sender selecting the set of recipient rights;
- encrypting the graphic representation of the selected document and the set of recipient rights;
- encapsulating the encrypted graphic representation of the selected document and the encrypted set of recipient rights into a cryptocontainer;
- sending the cryptocontainer from the sender to the recipient as an email attachment;
- and
- wherein the encapsulated and encrypted graphic representation of the selected document and the recipient rights are accessible by the recipient.
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A system for sending an electronic document and/or message from a sender to a recipient, and encrypting the document and/or message, the system comprising:
- a sender's email system that selects an electronic document to encrypt and to send to the recipient, wherein the sender's email system provides:
- selection of a set of recipient rights for selected the document;
- generation of a graphical representation of the selected document in response to the selection of the set of recipient rights;
- encryption of the graphical representation of the selected document and the set of recipient rights;
- and
- an ability to send the encrypted graphical representation of the selected document and the set of recipient rights from the sender to the recipient;
- and
- a receiver's email system that receives the encrypted document and the set of recipient rights at a terminal of the recipient;
- and
- a viewer that accesses the graphical representation of the selected document according to the set of recipient rights.
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A method for sending an electronic document and/or message from a sender to a recipient, and encrypting the document and/or message, the method performed by a hardware processor and comprising:
- selecting an electronic document to encrypt and send to the recipient;
- selecting a set of recipient rights for the document, wherein the set of recipient rights includes at least one from the following set:
- reading rights indefinitely;
- reading rights up to a preset date;
- printing rights indefinitely;
- printing rights up to a preset date;
- copying rights indefinitely;
- and
- copying rights up to a preset date;
- generating a graphic representation of the selected document in response to selecting the set of recipient rights;
- encrypting the graphic representation of the selected document and the set of recipient rights;
- sending the encrypted geographic representation of the selected document and the set of recipient rights from the sender to the recipient;
- receiving the encrypted document and the set of recipient rights at a terminal of the recipient;
- and
- accessing the document according to the set of recipient rights.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.