Patent Document ID: 8959344
Application ID: 13563874
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for handling defined areas within an electronic document comprising: marking at least one area in an electronic source document as an indecomposable area, wherein the indecomposable area can be processed as a whole content only in an electronic target document, the indecomposable area being associated with a context, and wherein the indecomposable area, when displayed in an electronic publication device, cannot be cut and copied to disassociate the indecomposable area from the context; generating signature data for the indecomposable area; assigning the signature data to the indecomposable area to create an indecomposable area object; storing the indecomposable area object; encrypting and transmitting the indecomposable area object in response to a request of an enhanced content reader application, the indecomposable area object comprising at least a part of the indecomposable area, wherein the enhanced content reader application decrypts the indecomposable area object and processes the indecomposable area in the electronic target document; generating and transmitting a protected version of the indecomposable area in response to a request of a regular content reader application, the protected version of the indecomposable area comprising at least a part of the indecomposable area, wherein the regular content reader application outputs the protected version of the indecomposable area in the electronic target document; generating registration data for the indecomposable area object and registering the indecomposable area object, wherein the registering comprises storing the registration data at an authentication application; and generating verification data for the indecomposable area object and verifying the indecomposable area object, wherein the verifying comprises transmitting the verification data to the authentication application, comparing the verification data with the registration data, and creating a verification result based on the comparison.