Sharing document information

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Field	Value
Publication number	US-9923904-B1
Application number	US-201615396005-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Dec 30, 2016
Priority date	Jan 16, 2014
Publication date	Mar 20, 2018
Grant date	Mar 20, 2018

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. A computer-implemented method 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;
in response to receiving the request for sharing the document with the second client device, generating, by the server system, 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;
based on the request to access the document, determining, by the server system, 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 based on determining that the second user associated with the second client device is authorized to access the document.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the document comprises a certification that (i) is based on metadata associated with the document, and (ii) comprises a digital signature of the first user.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein:
the code is transmitted to the second client device using one of a short messaging service (SMS) protocol, a multimedia messaging service (MMS) protocol, or an e-mail; and
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 (MMS) gateway.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein:
the request for sharing the document comprises an identification of the second client device;
the request to access the document comprises a portion of the document and the identification of the second client device; and
determining, by the server system, 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 the message including information about the document to the second client device, 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.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the code that allows access to the document comprises one or more of a graphical representation of the code, an optical machine-readable representation of the code, a sound-wave-based code, a numeric code, an alphanumeric code, and a uniform resource locator (URL).

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein:
the message comprises 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; and
the message is communicated via a short messaging service (SMS) gateway or a multimedia messaging service (MMS) gateway.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein determining, by the server system, 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.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein generating, by the server system, 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.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein determining, by the server system, 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.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein determining, by the server system, 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.

11. A system comprising:
one or more computing devices and one or more storage devices storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more computing devices, cause the one or more computing devices to perform operations comprising:
receiving, 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;
in response to receiving the request for sharing the document with the second client device, generating a code that allows access to the document;
transmitting, to the first client device, the code that allows access to the document;
receiving, 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;
based on the request to access the document, determining that a second user associated with the second client device is authorized to access the document; and
communicating, to the second client device, a message including information about the document based on determining that the second user associated with the second client device is authorized to access the document.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the document comprises a certification that (i) is based on metadata associated with the document, and (ii) comprises a digital signature of the first user.

13. The system of claim 11 , wherein:
the code is transmitted to the second client device using one of a short messaging service (SMS) protocol, a multimedia messaging service (MMS) protocol, or an e-mail; and
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 (MMS) gateway.

14. The system of claim 11 , wherein:
the request for sharing the document comprises an identification of the second client device;
the request to access the document comprises a portion of the document and the identification of the second client device; and
determining 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 the message including information about the document to the second client device, 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.

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Assignees

• Microstrategy Inc

Inventors

• Saylor Michael J
• Vazquez Hector

Classifications

• H04L67/34

  involving the movement of software or configuration parameters  (network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416) · CPC title

• H04W88/16

  Gateway arrangements · CPC title

• H04L51/04

  Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM] · CPC title

• H04L63/08

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

• H04L67/06

  specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP] · CPC title