System and method for providing an electronic document

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9710619-B2
Application number	US-201514675165-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 31, 2015
Priority date	Mar 31, 2015
Publication date	Jul 18, 2017
Grant date	Jul 18, 2017

Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided. Some embodiments include initiating a scan operation to generate an electronic document representing a scanned physical document, encrypting the electronic document, storing the encrypted electronic document, and outputting a message. The message may include location information for locating the encrypted electronic document, a key for decrypting the encrypted electronic document, and restriction information indicating a restriction associated with the encrypted electronic document. Some embodiments include receiving the message, using the location information to obtain the encrypted electronic document, decrypting the encrypted electronic document using the key to generate an unencrypted electronic document, presenting an image of the unencrypted electronic document on a display of a computing system, and restricting availability of at least one function or feature of the computing system in accordance with the restriction information.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system comprising:
one or more processors; and
one or more non-transitory computer-readable media including instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause an image processing device to perform operations comprising:
initiating, at the image processing device, a scan operation to generate an electronic document representing a scanned physical document;
encrypting the electronic document;
storing the encrypted electronic document on the image processing device;
determining an output mode based on information associated with one or more settings, the output mode corresponding to a type of message to be output;
outputting the message in accordance with the output mode, the message including location information, a key, and restriction information, the location information for locating the encrypted electronic document stored on the image processing device, the key for decrypting the encrypted electronic document, the restriction information indicating a restriction associated with the encrypted electronic document;
receiving, at the image processing device from a computing device, a request for the encrypted electronic document, the request comprising a request the computing device sent based on the location information; and
sending, from the image processing device to the computing device, the encrypted electronic document based on the request,
wherein the restriction information includes one or more instructions which when executed on the computing device cause the computing device to restrict availability of at least one function or feature of the computing device in accordance with the restriction information in order to restrict, at the computing device, use of at least one of the encrypted electronic document and an unencrypted electronic document generated by decrypting the encrypted electronic document using the key.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the restriction information is automatically included in the message based on a predetermined policy.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the restriction information comprises an instruction to prevent transmission of at least one of the encrypted electronic document and the unencrypted electronic document.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the restriction information comprises an instruction to prevent one or more applications from accessing at least one of the encrypted electronic document and the unencrypted electronic document.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the restriction information comprises an instruction to prevent storage of the unencrypted electronic document.

6. The system of claim 1 , the operations further comprising:
receiving, at the image processing device, one or more inputs via a user interface, the restriction information based on the one or more inputs.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the outputting the message in accordance with the output mode comprises:
presenting a machine-readable code on a display of the image processing device, wherein the location information, the key, and the restriction information are encoded in the machine-readable code.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the outputting the message in accordance with the output mode comprises:
sending, from the image processing device to a notification service, the message, an identifier, and a request to send the message to the computing device that is associated with the identifier.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the outputting the message in accordance with the output mode comprises:
wirelessly outputting the message from a communication interface of the image processing device.

10. A method comprising:
initiating, at an image processing device, a scan operation to generate an electronic document representing a scanned physical document;
encrypting the electronic document;
storing the encrypted electronic document on the image processing device;
determining an output mode based on information associated with one or more settings, the output mode corresponding to a type of message to be output;
outputting the message in accordance with the output mode, the message including location information, a key, and restriction information, the location information for locating the encrypted electronic document stored on the image processing device, the key for decrypting the encrypted electronic document, the restriction information indicating a restriction associated with the encrypted electronic document;
receiving, at the image processing device from a computing device, a request for the encrypted electronic document, the request comprising a request the computing device sent based on the location information; and
sending, from the image processing device to the computing device, the encrypted electronic document based on the request,
wherein the restriction information includes one or more instructions which when executed on the computing device cause the computing device to restrict availability of at least one function or feature of the computing device in accordance with the restriction information in order to restrict, at the computing device, use of at least one of the encrypted electronic document and an unencrypted electronic document generated by decrypting the encrypted electronic document using the key.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium including instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause an image processing device to perform operations comprising:
initiating, at the image processing device, a scan operation to generate an electronic document representing a scanned physical document;
encrypting the electronic document;
storing the encrypted electronic document on the image processing device;
determining an output mode based on information associated with one or more settings, the output mode corresponding to a type of message to be output;
outputting the message in accordance with the output mode, the message including location information, a key, and restriction information, the location information for locating the encrypted electronic document stored on the image processing device, the key for decrypting the encrypted electronic document, the restriction information indicating a restriction associated with the encrypted electronic document;
receiving, at the image processing device from a computing device, a request for the encrypted electronic document, the request comprising a request the computing device sent based on the location information; and
sending, from the image processing device to the computing device, the encrypted electronic document based on the request,
wherein the restriction information includes one or more instructions which when executed on the computing device cause the computing device to restrict availability of at least one function or feature of the computing device in accordance with the restriction information in order to restrict, at the computing device, use of at least one of the encrypted electronic document and an unencrypted electronic document generated by decrypting the encrypted electronic document using the key.

12. A system comprising:
one or more processors; and
one or more non-transitory computer-readable media including instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause a computing device to perform operations comprising:
receiving, at the computing device, a message output from an image processing device in accordance with an output mode that corresponds to a type of message, the message including location information for locating an encrypted electronic document stored on the image processing device, a key for decrypting the encrypted electr

Assignees

• Canon Information & Imaging Solutions Inc
• Canon Usa Inc

Inventors

• Brady Nigel Patrick

Classifications

• G06F21/6272

  by registering files or documents with a third party · CPC title

• G06F21/629

  to features or functions of an application · CPC title

• 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