Patent ID: 8112363
Filing Date: 2012-02-07
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for processing edited objects associated with a copyrighted physical document, said method for use in a user workstation by a user, said method comprising: said user workstation determining a position of a point pressed on a touch foil of an opto-touch foil aligned over or under a page of the copyrighted physical document, said page comprising a plurality of items, said point having been pressed to select an item of the plurality of items during illumination of the plurality of items by a light emitting foil of the opto-touch foil, said pressed point aligned proximate to the selected item; said user workstation identifying the selected item by correlating the determined position of the pressed point with a position of the selected item in a list of item positions recorded in an item position column of an edited objects table that is stored in the user workstation, said list of item positions being associated with the plurality of items on the page of the physical document; identifying a first edited object in the edited objects table from an association of the first edited object with the selected item identified by said correlating; ascertaining, from informing text in an edited object path column in the edited objects table, that the user does not have a license to use and/or copy the first edited object; and after said ascertaining, sending, from the user workstation to an edited objects server, a request for information concerning the first edited object, wherein the request comprises an identification of the physical document, an identification of the page, and an identification of the selected item.