Patent ID: 7155744
Filing Date: 2006-12-26
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L,H04N,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for protecting images distributed over a network, comprising: retrieving, at an administrative computer, a list of a plurality of web pages on a server computer web site and a list of a plurality of images that are referenced within any of the plurality of web pages, the administrative computer being remote from the server computer and communicatively coupled therewith; displaying, by the administrative computer, the list of web pages and the list of images to a user; generating, by the administrative computer, protection status information in response to selection by the user of at least one web page from the list of web pages or at least one image from the list of images, the protection status information designating the at least one web page selected by the user as being protected web pages, or the at least one image selected by the user as being protected images; further displaying, by the administrative computer, characteristic icons to indicate (i) web pages all of whose referenced images are protected, (ii) web pages some but not all of whose referenced images are protected, and (iii) web pages none of whose referenced images are protected; sending the protection status information from the administrative computer to the server computer; downloading, by a client computer, one of the plurality of web pages from the server computer web site, the downloaded web page referencing an image; and copy-protecting the referenced image by copy-protection software running on the client computer, if the referenced image is designated by the protection status information as being protected.