Patent ID: 8839457
Filing Date: 2014-09-16
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for controlling access to digital media, the method comprising: accessing, at a computer server system, an image provided by a first user of a browser-based collaborative document editing application at a first remote computing device; receiving a URL at the computer server system from the browser-based collaborative document editing application at a second remote computing device; decoding at least a portion of the URL with the computer server system; extracting a user ID of a second user associated with the second remote computing device and an image ID of the image; using the user ID, with the computer server system, to determine whether the second user is authorized to access the image; controlling access to the image based on the determination of whether the second user is authorized to access the image; and displaying, if the second user is authorized to view the image, the image associated with the image ID in a document rendered in the browser-based collaborative document editing application at the second remote computing device, wherein the displayed image appears embedded in the document.