Patent Document ID: 7665141
Application ID: 10998306

Base Claim:
1. A method of separately authenticating the origin and custody of substantially each substantive page reproduced from a plurality of stored digitized electronic records created by a plurality of different originators, said method comprising: creating and storing said plurality of digitized electronic records; applying a custodian mark to each of said digitized electronic records when said digitized electronic records are placed in storage; applying an originator mark to each of said digitized electronic records after it has been created, wherein the same originator mark is applied to each of said digitized electronic records that is created by the same originator; reproducing at least one said substantive page from at least one of said stored digitized electronic records, the resulting reproduced substantive page being in digitized form; and wherein both said custodian and originator marks appear on said reproduced substantive page only if such reproduced substantive page has not been changed since said custodian and originator marks were applied to said digitized electronic record, said reproduced substantive page being alterable to produce an altered page from which said custodian and originator marks have been automatically and unavoidably removed by the alteration of said reproduced substantive page.

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Claim 3:
3. A method according to claim 1 including displaying at least one said reproduced substantive page on a monitor screen with both a said reporter originator mark and said repository custodian mark appearing on said at least one reproduced substantive page.