Patent ID: 7428591

Claim:
In an Internet authorization system for at least one of preventing Internet access and unauthorized use of proprietary data over the Internet, a method including steps of: (a) encoding an Internet authorization flag, indicating authorized Internet access to proprietary data stored on a media comprising playing access, copying access, and downloading access of the proprietary data, with at least one of a continuously and periodically encoded sequence, and compressing the encoded Internet authorization flag; (b) storing, in a media, the proprietary data and the encoded Internet authorization flag; (c) distributing said media to at least one of an Internet service provider, a site provider, a network provider, and an authorized broker of said media; (d) searching data, at least one of contained on and transported via at least one of the Internet, intranet and network, for existence of said Internet authorization flag when a user accesses a web site on at least one of said Internet, intranet and network; and (e) providing control of at least one of access to and use of the proprietary data stored on said media responsive to the Internet authorization flag indicating authorized Internet access to the proprietary data, and searching the proprietary data for determining and reporting unauthorized use of the proprietary data and initiating a specific action responsive thereto.