Patent ID: 8726015
Filing Date: 2014-05-13
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a content handling engine, an instruction set, wherein the instruction set identifies: i) one or more destinations, ii) a file format for each of the one or more destinations, and iii) a security status for each of the one or more destinations designating whether or not the article of content is to be transmitted securely to the corresponding destination; storing, in a database, the instruction set; determining, by the content handling engine, a code that uniquely references the instruction set; providing, by the content handling engine, an embeddable form of the code, wherein the embedded code is configured to be embedded into one or more articles of content; receiving, by the content handling engine, an article of content, wherein the code is embedded into the article of content; identifying, by the processor, the code embedded into the article of content; after identifying the code embedded into the article of content, identifying, by the content handling engine, the instruction set from the code; executing, by the content handling engine, the instruction set on the article of content to transform the article of content into the identified format for each of the one or more destinations and with the identified security for each of the one or more destinations, wherein the executing further comprises: placing the article of content into a first file, encrypting the first file using a private key of a sender to create a first encrypted article of content, and placing the first encrypted article of content into a second file, and encrypting the second file using one or more public keys associated with the one or more destinations; and distributing electronically to each of the one or more destinations a corresponding transformed article of content.