Sharing document information

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Field	Value
Publication number	US-9565175-B1
Application number	US-201514599146-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Jan 16, 2015
Priority date	Jan 16, 2014
Publication date	Feb 7, 2017
Grant date	Feb 7, 2017

Abstract

The disclosure of the present document can be embodied in a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that cause one or more processors to perform various operations, including, receiving, from a first client device associated with a user account of a first user, a request for sharing a document. The document is associated with a credential of the first user, and the credential is associated with the user account of the first user. The operations include transmitting, in response to the request, a code associated with the document, and receiving, from a second client device, a request to access the document. The request to access the document includes the code associated with the document. The operations include determining, based on the request to access the document, that the second client device is authorized to access the document, and communicating, to the second client device, a message including information about the document.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. One or more non-transitory, computer-readable storage media storing instructions executable by one or more processors which, upon such execution, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
receiving, by a server system from a first client device associated with a first user, a request for sharing a document with a second client device, wherein the document is electronically signed using a credential of the first user, and the credential identifies one or more privileges allocated to the first user;
generating, by the server system in response to receiving the request for sharing the document with the second client device, a code that allows access to the document;
transmitting, from the server system to the first client device, the code that allows access to the document;
receiving, by the server system from the second client device, a request to access the document, the request to access the document including the code that allows access to the document;
determining, by the server system based on the request to access the document, that a second user associated with the second client device is authorized to access the document; and
communicating, by the server system to the second client device, a message including information about the document.

2. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable storage media of claim 1 , wherein the document includes a certification.

3. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable storage media of claim 2 , wherein the certification is based on metadata associated with the document.

4. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable storage media of claim 2 , wherein the certification includes a digital signature of the first user.

5. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable storage media of claim 1 , wherein the code is transmitted to the second client device.

6. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable storage media of claim 5 , wherein the code is transmitted to the second client device using a short messaging service (SMS) protocol or a multimedia messaging service (MIMS) protocol.

7. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable storage media of claim 5 , wherein the code is transmitted to the second client device via an e-mail.

8. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable storage media of claim 5 , wherein the request for sharing the document includes an identification of the second client device.

9. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable storage media of claim 1 ,
wherein the request to access the document further comprises a portion of the document; and
wherein determining, by the server system based on the request to access the document, that the second user associated with the second client device is authorized to access the document comprises:
obtaining the document from a storage device; and
prior to communicating, to the second client device, the message including information about the document, determining that the portion of the document from the request to access the document matches a corresponding portion of the document obtained from the storage device.

10. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable storage media of claim 1 , wherein the code that allows access to the document comprises one or more of a graphical representation of the code, a sound-wave based code, a numeric code, an alphanumeric code, and a uniform resource locator (URL).

11. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable storage media of claim 1 , wherein the request to access the document is received from the second client device via a short messaging service (SMS) gateway or a multimedia messaging service (MIMS) gateway.

12. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable storage media of claim 1 , wherein the message includes one or more of (i) metadata information associated with the document, (ii) a uniform resource locator (URL) for accessing the document, and (iii) an image of the document.

13. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable storage media of claim 1 , wherein the message is communicated via a short messaging service (SMS) gateway or a multimedia messaging service (MIMS) gateway.

14. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable storage media of claim 1 , wherein the request to access the document includes an identification of the second client device.

15. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable storage media of claim 1 , wherein determining, by the server system based on the request to access the document, that the second user associated with the second client device is authorized to access the document comprises:
verifying that the second client device is associated with the second user; and
verifying that the second user is authorized to access the document.

16. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable storage media of claim 1 , wherein generating, by the server system in response to receiving the request for sharing the document with the second client device, the code that allows access to the document comprises:
determining whether the first user is authorized to share the document with the second client device by verifying the credential of the first user; and
in response to determining that the first user is authorized to share the document with the second client device, generating the code that allows access to the document.

17. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable storage media of claim 1 , wherein determining, by the server system based on the request to access the document, that the second user associated with the second client device is authorized to access the document comprises:
determining whether a time period for utilizing the code that allows access to the document is not expired; and
determining that the second user associated with the second client device is authorized to access the document in response to determining that the time period for utilizing the code that allows access to the document is not expired.

18. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable storage media of claim 1 , wherein determining, by the server system based on the request to access the document, that the second user associated with the second client device is authorized to access the document comprises:
determining that the second user associated with the second client device is in possession of a physical copy of the document.

19. One or more non-transitory, computer-readable storage media storing instructions executable by one or more processors which, upon such execution, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
receiving, by a server system from a first client device associated with a first user, a request for sharing a document with a second client device, wherein the document is electronically signed using a credential of the first user, and the credential identifies one or more privileges allocated to the first user;
generating, by the server system in response to receiving the request for sharing the document with the second client device, an alphanumeric code that allows access to the document;
transmitting, from the server system to the first client device, the alphanumeric code that allows access to the document;
receiving, by the server system from the second client device, a request to access the document, the request to access the document including the alphanumeric code that allows access to the document;
determining, by the server system based on the request to access the document, th

Assignees

• Microstrategy Inc

Inventors

• Saylor Michael J
• Vazquez Hector

Classifications

• H04L67/10 Primary

  in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network (software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46) · CPC title

• H04L63/08 Primary

  for authentication of entities (cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32) · CPC title

• H04L63/108

  when the policy decisions are valid for a limited amount of time · CPC title

• H04L67/01

  Protocols · CPC title

• H04L67/56

  Provisioning of proxy services (store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54) · CPC title