Patent ID: 8681992
Filing Date: 2014-03-25
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of monitoring and controlling access to an electronic content, comprising: creating, by an owner server, a group comprising generating a group public key PK adding, by the owner server, a member to the group, comprising generating a first share SK providing, by the owner server, the first share SK a user publishing an electronic content for the group, comprising the user encrypting the electronic content to the group public key PK obtaining, by the member, the encrypted electronic content; requesting, by the member, mediation by the mediator, comprising the member dispatching the header of the encrypted electronic content to the mediator; determining, by the mediator, whether the member is eligible to decrypt the electronic content, if eligible, the mediator responding to the request for mediation with a member accessible header, wherein the member accessible header includes the header after application of SK obtaining, by the member, a secret based on SK decrypting, by the member, the payload of the electronic content using the secret.