Patent Document ID: 9753957
Application ID: 13461944

Base Claim:
1. A method for electronic document tracking comprising: determining opening of an electronic document on a computer; determining at least two document history parameters to be encrypted and embedded in the electronic document, wherein at least one of the two document history parameters is associated with a unique identifier for the computer and at least another of the two document history parameters is associated with an identity of a user of the computer; embedding using visual and digital steganography within apparent blanks in the document in which both visual and digital steganography are hidden, the at least two document history parameters in the electronic document, wherein the document history parameters are a fixed and permanent part of the document and may not be at least one of deleted, changed and edited; determining whether the electronic document tracking has been disabled; overwriting and scrambling the electronic document upon determination that the electronic document tracking has been disabled; and deleting the scrambled electronic document upon determination that the electronic document tracking has been disabled.

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Claim 8:
8. The method of claim 1 wherein embedding at least one of the at least two document history parameters comprises steganography.