Steven Donald Lord

US Patent:

20080162931, Jul 3, 2008

Filed:

Nov 30, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/948775

Inventors:

Steven Earl Lord - San Gabriel CA, US
Victor Eduardo Contin - Stevenson Ranch CA, US
Jay Stuart Tsuruda - Pasadena CA, US
Kevin James Vandereaux Jones - Pasadena CA, US

International Classification:

H04L 9/32

US Classification:

713165

Abstract:

Access to a digital asset by a user may be controlled by encrypting the digital asset, embedding the encrypted digital asset in a file, providing a file viewer to the user, responding to a request by the user to access the digital asset by sending a request from the file viewer to a server, the request including identification information related to the user and the file, processing the request from the file viewer, with information in a database related to authorization of the user to access the digital asset, to produce and send to the viewer an encrypted authorization key and responding to receipt of the encrypted authorization key by the viewer by decrypting the authorization key to permit the requested access to the digital asset via the file viewer.