US 10,554,424 B2
ENHANCED SECURITY PREVIEW OF DIGITAL CONTENTGeneral
US 10,554,424 B2
ENHANCED SECURITY PREVIEW OF DIGITAL CONTENT
Tech Center:
3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security and License and Review
Examiner:
Chrystina E Zelaskiewicz
Art Unit:
3621 Business Methods — Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing
Inventors:
Ashish K Mithal; Amad Tayebi
Assignee:
Priority:
07/05/09
Filed:
07/05/09
Granted:
02/04/20
Expiration:
04/19/24
Abstract
A method for controlling the release of an as-rendered configuration of a digital work, comprising the steps of presenting said digital work as a composite of a plurality of layers comprising at least a first layer and a second layer; providing a rendering protocol interface which is adapted for defining said as-rendered configuration of the digital work by specifying a first rendering status of said first layer and a second rendering status of said second layer; providing a rendering protocol facility adapted for storing and controlling the release of said first and second rendering status of said first and second layers respectively in accordance with said as-rendered configuration; restricting unauthorized access to the rendering protocol interface, thereby preventing unauthorized modification of said as-rendered configuration; and releasing said digital work with said as-rendered configuration. The method has application in selling books, movies, software, music and other information products. A method of selling a preview version of an information product along with an option of purchase of the original version is described.
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)
G06G06Q30/0283G06QH04L2463/101H04LG11B20/00826G11B