Patent ID: 8725650

Claim:
A method for licensing a document template, comprising: obtaining, at a computing device, a license for a document template comprising a style guide for a document from a marketplace service; downloading the document template to the computing device; providing a functionality of a document derived from the document template to a licensed user; and sharing a license-restricted document with an unlicensed user in response to an input from the licensed user, wherein the license-restricted document provides a reduced-functionality of the document derived from the document template to the unlicensed user; wherein sharing a license-restricted document with the unlicensed user comprises: assigning a seat to the unlicensed user; sending a token associated with the license to a third party service when the unlicensed user attempts to access the document template; accepting the token at the marketplace service provided from the third party service; verifying a validity of the token at the marketplace service; sending a message from the marketplace service verifying the validity of the token to the third party service.