Patent ID: 9305143
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Claim Text:
1. An electronic document creation method protecting copyrights and allowing private copying, comprising the steps of: accessing an order server containing models of documents to distribute, an item database, a customer database with the emails of customers, an order database containing references of the works ordered, and digital rights associated with the works ordered, said digital rights comprising controlled consultation rights as constraints, and permanently acquired digital rights, the order server configured for handling an order received from the customer on the network; accessing a delivery server via the network, the delivery server configured for generating a specific copy of a document ordered by a customer from the model of the document ordered, the order server sending order information to the delivery server, the order information comprising at least the reference to the work, customer contact information, the controllable consultation rights, and other digital rights ordered, the delivery server creating a delivery record of the work ordered containing the unique identifier to control the said work ordered, the order server responding to the customer's order by sending the customer a URL link towards the delivery server, the URL link comprising, as a parameter, at least the unique identifier of the copy ordered; responsive to an activation of the URL link by the customer, the delivery server generating a specific copy of the work ordered, by a library used for creation of documents on the fly containing the unique identifier, a supervision agent for the document, and the other permanently acquired digital rights relating to the document, the supervision agent designed to verify the controlled digital rights of each copy of the ordered work; accessing a control server via the network, the control server configured to verify digital rights acquired by the customer using the unique identifier of the ordered document copy; when delivering the ordered document copy to the customer, the delivery server sending to the control server the controlled information containing at least the unique identifier of the ordered document copy and the set of digital rights controlled; and operating a customer computing device, supporting a viewer, to allow the customer, via the viewer, to consult the ordered document, previously downloaded from the delivery server, said viewer designed to allow the customer to consult the ordered document; and a verification step comprising the sub-steps of when opening the specific copy on the customer computing device, the supervision agent of the specific copy causing the customer computing device to connect to the control server, and the supervision agent of the specific copy sending a query containing at least the unique identifier of the specific copy, in response to receiving the query, the control server returning a response comprised of one of i) an authorization to consult the specific copy, and ii) a consultation refusal, according to the specific copy's controlled digital rights as stored by the control server, and when the customer computing device receives the response from the control server, the supervision agent of the specific copy allowing the consultation of the specific copy when the response comprises the authorization to consult the specific copy and prohibiting the consultation of the specific copy when the response comprises the consultation refusal.