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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:
Feb. 07, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2006
Robert L Goodwin, Mercer Island, WA (US);
David Zhao, Bothell, WA (US);
Adrian Tsang Kwong Chan, Bellevue, WA (US);
Chieh Wang, Issaquah, WA (US);
Michael V Rykov, Seattle, WA (US);
Robert L Goodwin, Mercer Island, WA (US);
David Zhao, Bothell, WA (US);
Adrian Tsang Kwong Chan, Bellevue, WA (US);
Chieh Wang, Issaquah, WA (US);
Michael V Rykov, Seattle, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a method and system for verifying a user for copying or printing a limited portion of digital content while allowing the user to view the digital content. The digital content may have image portions that are digital images generally scanned from a printed page of the content and text portions that are digital texts including all forms of letters, characters, symbols, etc. An interactive image document displaying image portions of the digital content is provided for secure data access to text portions. A user can request and obtain a limited text portion of the digital content or view the image portions of the digital content via user interactions within the interactive image document. While the text portions can be reproduced, copied, or printed, the image portions can not be re-used or manipulated by the user due to their non-text accessible format.