| US 7,574,407 B2 | ||
| System and method for selecting, ordering and accessing copyrighted information from physical documents | ||
| Fernando Incertis Carro, Valencia (Spain); and Jose Maria Varona Barbero, Madrid (Spain) | ||
| Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, N.Y. (US) | ||
| Appl. No. 10/530,535 PCT Filed Jul. 23, 2003, PCT No. PCT/EP03/09309 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Apr. 06, 2005, PCT Pub. No. WO2004/034280, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 22, 2004. |
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| Claims priority of application No. 02368109 (EP), filed on Oct. 10, 2002. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0167754 A1, Jul. 27, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. H04K 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 9/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 705—59 [705/57; 726/9] | 3 Claims |

| 1. A method for processing edited objects associated with a copyrighted physical document, the method for use in a user workstation
by a user, said method comprising the computer-implemented steps of:
determining a position of a point pressed on a touch foil of an opto-touch foil aligned over or under a page of the copyrighted
physical document, said page comprising a plurality of items, said point having been pressed to select an item of the plurality
of items during illumination of the plurality of items by a light emitting foil of the opto-touch foil, said pressed point
aligned proximate to the selected item;
identifying the selected item by correlating the determined position of the pressed point with a position of the selected
item in a list of item positions recorded in an item position column of an edited objects table that is stored in the user
workstation, said list of item positions being associated with the plurality of items on the page of the physical document,
wherein the edited objects table comprises a header section and a body section, wherein the header section comprises a Uniform
Resource Locator (URL) of an edited objects server, a publication number of the physical document, a title of the physical
document, an author of the physical document, a date of publication of the physical document, and an International Standard
Book Number (ISBN) of the physical document, wherein the body section comprises a plurality of rows and three columns, wherein
each row of the plurality of rows is specific to a copyrighted edited object, wherein the three columns consist of the item
position column comprising a position of the edited object on the page, an item name column comprising a name of the edited
object, and an edited object path column comprising either a file path to the edited object on the user workstation which
denotes that the user has a license to use and or copy the edited object or informing text indicating that the edited object
does not exist on the user workstation which denotes that the user does not have the license to use and/or copy the edited
object, wherein the edited object path column for at least one row of the plurality of rows comprises the file path to the
edited object specific to each row of the at least one row, and wherein the edited object path column for each row of at least
one other row of the plurality of rows comprises the informing text;
identifying a first edited object in the edited objects table from an edited object name denoted in the item name column in
a determined row of the edited objects table in which there is an association of the first edited object with the selected
item resulting from said correlating;
ascertaining, from the informing text in the edited object path column of the determined row, that the user does not have
a license to use and or copy the first edited object;
after said ascertaining, sending, from the user workstation to the edited objects server, a request for information concerning
the first edited object, wherein the request comprises an identification of the physical document, an identification of the
page, and an identification of the selected item;
receiving, by the user workstation from the edited objects server, the requested information, wherein the received requested
information comprises license terms and conditions as well as pricing and ordering information pertaining to the first edited
object;
after said receiving the requested information, displaying or playing the received requested information on the user workstation;
after said displaying or playing the received requested information, sending an order from the user workstation to the edited
objects server for the license, wherein the order comprises the identification of the physical document, the page, and the
selected item, and payment data relating to the selected item and required by a publisher of the physical document;
after said sending the order, receiving, by the user workstation from the edited objects server, the first edited object with
the license;
storing the received first edited object in the user workstation;
updating the edited object path column in the edited objects table in the user workstation with a file path for accessing
the stored received first edited object.
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