Messaging administration based on digital rights management services

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9430618-B2
Application number	US-201314040071-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 27, 2013
Priority date	Sep 27, 2013
Publication date	Aug 30, 2016
Grant date	Aug 30, 2016

Abstract

A method for servicing messages with digital documents accessed and displayed by a client application, including the steps of establishing a database of message queues each associated with one or more digital documents and containing one or more messages, and upon authorizing a user's request for accessing and using a digital document, providing a message queue associated with the digital document.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for servicing messages with digital documents accessed and displayed by a client application, comprising the steps of:
establishing a database of message queues each associated with one or more digital documents and containing one or more messages; and
upon authorizing a user's request for accessing and using a digital document, providing a message queue associated with the digital document, wherein if the digital document is a multi-layer portable document format (PDF) document, then the messages are provided in one or more of the layers of the multi-layer PDF document.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising a step of:
displaying the digital document along with one or more messages in the provided message queue.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the one or more messages in the provided message queue are displayed in the digital document.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising a step of allowing a plug-in program to the client application to fetch the message queue to retrieve any messages contained therein, wherein the plug-in program combines the retrieved messages with the digital document and renders them together for use by the user.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising a step of configuring a message queue with one or more messages.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising a step of associating a message queue to one or more digital documents.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the messages are provided as metadata.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the messages are provided as embedded multi-media objects.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the messages are provided as dynamic contents.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the digital document is accessed by the client program from a first source, and the messages in the message queue associated with the digital document are accessed by the plug-in program from a second source that is different from the first source.

11. A method for servicing messages with digital documents accessed and displayed by a client application, comprising the steps of:
establishing a database of message queues each associated with one or more digital documents and containing one or more messages;
upon authorizing a user's request for accessing and using a digital document, providing a message queue associated with the digital document; and
allowing a plug-in program to the client application to fetch the message queue to retrieve any messages contained therein, wherein the plug-in program combines the retrieved messages with the digital document and renders them together for use by the user, wherein the plug-in program provides an option for the user to opt-out of the messaging service.

12. A computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer usable medium having computer readable codes embodied therein for controlling one or more data processing apparatus, the computer readable codes configured to cause the one or more data processing apparatus to execute a process for servicing messages with digital documents accessed and displayed by a client application, the process comprising the steps of:
establishing a database of message queues each associated with one or more digital documents and containing one or more messages; and
upon authorizing a user's request for accessing and using a digital document, providing a message queue associated with the digital document, wherein if the digital document is a multi-layer portable document format (PDF) document, then the messages are provided in one or more of the layers of the multi-layer PDF document.

13. The computer program product of claim 12 , wherein the process further comprises a step of:
displaying the digital document along with one or more messages in the provided message queue.

14. The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein the one or more messages in the provided message queue are displayed in the digital document.

15. The computer program product of claim 12 , wherein the process further comprises a step of allowing a plug-in program to the client application to fetch the message queue to retrieve any messages contained therein, wherein the plug-in program combines the retrieved messages with the digital document and renders them together for use by the user.

16. The computer program product of claim 12 , wherein the process further comprises a step of configuring a message queue with one or more messages.

17. The computer program product of claim 12 , wherein the process further comprises a step of associating a message queue to one or more digital documents.

18. The computer program product of claim 12 , wherein the messages are provided as metadata.

19. The computer program product of claim 12 , wherein the messages are provided as embedded multi-media objects.

20. The computer program product of claim 12 , wherein the messages are provided as dynamic contents.

21. The computer program product of claim 12 , wherein the digital document is accessed by the client program from a first source, and the messages in the message queue associated with the digital document are accessed by the plug-in program from a second source that is different from the first source.

22. A computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer usable medium having computer readable codes embodied therein for controlling one or more data processing apparatus, the computer readable codes configured to cause the one or more data processing apparatus to execute a process for servicing messages with digital documents accessed and displayed by a client application, the process comprising the steps of:
establishing a database of message queues each associated with one or more digital documents and containing one or more messages;
upon authorizing a user's request for accessing and using a digital document, providing a message queue associated with the digital document; and
allowing a plug-in program to the client application to fetch the message queue to retrieve any messages contained therein, wherein the plug-in program combines the retrieved messages with the digital document and renders them together for use by the user, wherein the plug-in program provides an option for the user to opt-out of the messaging service.

Assignees

• Konica Minolta Laboratory Usa Inc

Inventors

• Pathak Rabindra

Classifications

• G06F21/10 Primary

  Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material (protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16) {; Digital rights management [DRM]} · CPC title