Patent Document ID: 8107100
Application ID: 11459012

Base Claim:
1. A method for managing deployed electronic documents comprising: attempting to access a network managed document located locally at a client via a document handler at the client, the network managed document having been deployed in a network prior to the attempt by a remotely located document manager that controls access to the network managed document, the network managed document includes a plurality of data sections, each data section including content and section specific access rights for locally accessing and altering the included content of each data section, wherein the document handler attempts to access the network managed document through a proxy at the client between the network managed document and the document handler; automatically conveying a data probe from the proxy at the client to the remotely located document manager responsive to the attempt to access the network managed document at the client, wherein the data probe is a request for access rights to the network managed document and includes data specific to the network managed document and identification information of at least one of the client or a user of the client attempting to access the network managed document to allow the remotely located document manager to determine access rights of the client or user for each of the plurality of the data sections; responsive to conveying the data probe, receiving at the proxy of the client a management command from the document manager, the management command indicating access rights specific to the client or user for each of the plurality of data sections of the network managed document at the client based on the data included in the data probe; and locally and automatically performing a management action at the client by the proxy for the network managed document allowing access to the network managed document by the document handler at the client in accordance with the access rights indicated in the received management command, wherein the access rights include access rights to alter at least one of the data sections at the client.

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Claim 7:
7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: providing a deployed document engine upon a machine that performs the locally accessing step, wherein use of the network managed document requires an active involvement of the deployed document engine, wherein machine-readable programmatic instructions that cause a machine to convey of the data probe, process the received management command, and initiate the performing step in accordance with the method are executed by the deployed document engine.