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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2005
Applicant:
Heikki Waris, Helsinki, FI;
Inventor:
Heikki Waris, Helsinki, FI;
Assignee:
Nokia Corporation, Espoo, FI;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A data handling mechanism, wherein a small binary tag is appended to data (each message and file) for controlling the access and handling of the data. The tag contains dedicated bits for indicating its various usage rights such as copying, forwarding, editing and also right to edit the tag itself. The tag is created by an author of the data or by any other party handling the data, including middleware agents and possible recipients of the data based on contextual information such as network or ownership domain of the author and/or of the recipient.