Patent ID: 6602298
Filing Date: 2003-08-05
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method of storing and retrieving a document with different levels of document security provided for different portions of the document, comprising:creating a data set corresponding to a document and storing the data set in a database, the document comprising a plurality of portions, the storing utilizing software configured to save a plurality of machine-readable identifier codes associated with the data set in the database; the identifier codes identifying the different portions of the document; the database being accessible to a plurality of users; some portions of the document being defined as secure portions and other portions being defined as non-secure portions; some users having authorization to access non-secure portions of the document and not having authorization to access secure portions of the document; the users being assigned access codes which identify if the users have clearance to access secure portions of the document; printing the non-secure portions of the document together with at least some of the identifier codes on a substrate; providing the identifier codes to a processor in data-communication with the database, the processor being configured to retrieve both the secure and the non-secure portions of the document and to send the retrieved portions of the document to an output device; the processor being further configured to recognize if an access code provides clearance to secure portions of the document: requiring a user to input its individual access code to the processor before secure portions of the document are sent to the output device; and the processor sending secure portions of the document to the output device only if the inputted individual access code indicates that the user has clearance to obtain the secure portions.