Patent ID: 11954756
Assignee: EQUITY SHIFT, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 16:
17. A method for digitally encoding a digital document, comprising:
providing a server, including a processor and a memory, in network communication with at least one user device;
the server receiving a document request message from the at least one user device, wherein the document request message includes a request to view or download one or more digital documents;
upon receiving the document request message, the server automatically generating a unique hash value;
the unique hash value including information including an identity of the at least one user device, at least one geolocation, a unique document ID, and/or a unique ID associated with an original creator of the one or more digital documents;
the server generating a visual code corresponding to the unique hash value, wherein the visual code includes a plurality of polygons, and wherein a pattern of the plurality of polygons and/or a greyscale shading of each of the plurality of polygons uniquely corresponds to the unique hash value; and
the server altering the pixels of the one or more digital documents in order to embed the visual code in the one or more digital documents.