Patent ID: 9277097
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for authenticating a document using an authenticable copy of the document to obtain an authenticated copy of the document, the authenticatable copy possessed by an owning entity and comprising rules which directly or indirectly define conditions for obtaining the authenticated copy, said rules being detectable and utilizable by a tailored reproduction system and being tailored to one of a material document type and an electronic document type, the method for authenticating a document comprising: creating an original of the document in electronic document form by an issuing entity; the issuing entity sending the original of the document in electronic document form to an authentication management entity so that the original of the document in electronic document form is stored in a secure storage site and so that delivery of the authenticated copy is managed directly or indirectly by the authentication management entity; sending an authenticatable ownership copy of the original of the document to an owning entity, wherein the authenticatable ownership copy serves as a key for the owning entity to access the original of the document in electronic document form stored in the secure storage site; upon a request for the authenticated copy by a requesting entity to the owning entity, the owning entity makes, on the basis of the authenticatable ownership copy, a request for reproduction of the original of the document via a tailored reproduction system controlled directly or indirectly by the authentication management entity so as to obtain an authenticatable transmission copy of the original of the document, the conditions for obtaining the authenticated copy, on the basis of the authenticatable transmission copy, being defined by the owning entity; the authenticatable transmission copy is transmitted, directly or indirectly, by said owning entity to said requesting entity; and the requesting entity uses the authenticatable transmission copy to make a request for reproduction of the original of the document via the tailored reproduction system so as to obtain the authenticated copy delivered under the direct or indirect control of the authentication management entity.