Opinion ID: 4580081
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Heading: A method for providing multi-level multime-

Text: dia security in a data network, comprising the steps of: A) accessing an object-oriented key manager; B) selecting an object to encrypt; C) selecting a label for the object; D) selecting an encryption algorithm; E) encrypting the object according to the en- cryption algorithm; Case: 19-2192 Document: 60 Page: 4 Filed: 10/23/2020 4 TECSEC, INC. v. ADOBE INC. F) labelling the encrypted object; G) reading the object label; H) determining access authorization based on the object label; and I) decrypting the object if access authorization is granted. ’702 patent, col. 12, lines 2–15. Whereas the subject of claim 1 is a method, the subject of claim 8 is a system that includes components—a “system memory,” “an encryption algorithm module,” “an object labelling subsystem,” “a decryption algorithm module,” and “an object label identification subsystem”—that carry out the steps of claim 1’s method. Id., col. 12, line 45, through col. 13, line 19.