Methods and apparatus for contemporaneously acquiring and certifying content
First Claim
1. A method for producing certified content, the method comprising:
- receiving original content acquired from a content acquisition device;
receiving a device identity associated with the content acquisition device;
producing a certification value indicating the original content was acquired from the content acquisition device having the device identity;
associating the certification value to the original content to produce certified content that can be verified to represent the original content that was acquired from the content acquisition device having the associated device identity while preventing modification to the original content by processing not associated with the operations of receiving the original content, receiving the device identity, producing the certification value and associating the certification value to the original content;
wherein receiving original content acquired from the content acquisition device comprises;
receiving individual portions of the original content over time, each individual portion being smaller than a sum total of the original content; and
wherein each individual portion of the original content, once received, is respectively individually processed by an iteration of the operations of producing a certification value and associating the certification value to the original content such that a respective portion of certified content is produced for each individual respective portion of original content;
wherein receiving portions of the original content over time includes incrementally acquiring scanned rows of pixels from a physical source, wherein the scanned rows of pixels are each separately returned for receiving the certification value; and
combining respective portions of certified content to produce an entire certified document based on all individual portions of the original content that were received over time while concurrently preventing operator access to the received individual portions of the original content during performance of the operations of receiving original content, producing a certification value, and associating the certification value to the original content to ensure that the certification value is based on actual individual portions of original content and the device identity of the content acquisition device that provided the individual portions of original content.
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Abstract
A system produces certified content by receiving original content acquired from a content acquisition device and receiving a device identity associated with the content acquisition device. The system produces a certification value indicating the original content was acquired from the content acquisition device having the device identity. The system associates the certification value to the original content to produce certified content that can be verified to represent the original content that was acquired from a content acquisition device having the associated device identity while preventing modification to the original content by processing not associated with certification processing. This process is performed in an uninterrupted manner to ensure certified content reflects an accurate device identity. The system can be implemented entirely within a content acquisition device itself, or in a computer system coupled to a content acquisition device.
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29 Claims
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1. A method for producing certified content, the method comprising:
- receiving original content acquired from a content acquisition device;
receiving a device identity associated with the content acquisition device; producing a certification value indicating the original content was acquired from the content acquisition device having the device identity; associating the certification value to the original content to produce certified content that can be verified to represent the original content that was acquired from the content acquisition device having the associated device identity while preventing modification to the original content by processing not associated with the operations of receiving the original content, receiving the device identity, producing the certification value and associating the certification value to the original content; wherein receiving original content acquired from the content acquisition device comprises; receiving individual portions of the original content over time, each individual portion being smaller than a sum total of the original content; and wherein each individual portion of the original content, once received, is respectively individually processed by an iteration of the operations of producing a certification value and associating the certification value to the original content such that a respective portion of certified content is produced for each individual respective portion of original content; wherein receiving portions of the original content over time includes incrementally acquiring scanned rows of pixels from a physical source, wherein the scanned rows of pixels are each separately returned for receiving the certification value; and combining respective portions of certified content to produce an entire certified document based on all individual portions of the original content that were received over time while concurrently preventing operator access to the received individual portions of the original content during performance of the operations of receiving original content, producing a certification value, and associating the certification value to the original content to ensure that the certification value is based on actual individual portions of original content and the device identity of the content acquisition device that provided the individual portions of original content. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
- receiving original content acquired from a content acquisition device;
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16. A computer system comprising:
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a memory; a processor; a communications interface coupled to a content acquisition device; an interconnection mechanism coupling the memory, the processor and the communications interface allowing communication there between; wherein the memory is encoded with a content certifier application, that when executed in the processor, provides a content certifier process that produces certified content by causing the computer system to perform the operations of; receiving original content acquired from a content acquisition device;
receiving a device identity associated with the content acquisition device;producing a certification value indicating the original content was acquired from the content acquisition device having the device identity; associating the certification value to the original content to produce certified content that can be verified to represent the original content that was acquired from the content acquisition device having the associated device identity while preventing modification to the original content by processing not associated with the operations of receiving the original content, receiving the device identity, producing the certification value and associating the certification value to the original content; wherein receiving original content acquired from the content acquisition device comprises; receiving individual portions of the original content over time, each individual portion being smaller than a sum total of the original content; and wherein each individual portion of the original content, once received, is respectively individually processed by an iteration of the operations of producing a certification value and associating the certification value to the original content such that a respective portion of certified content is produced for each individual respective portion of original content;
wherein receiving portions of the original content over time includesincremental acquiring scanned rows of pixels from a physical source, wherein the scanned rows of pixels are each separately returned for receiving the certification value; and combining respective portions of certified content to produce an entire certified document based on all individual portions of the original content that were received over time while concurrently preventing operator access to the received individual portions of the original content during performance of the operations of receiving original content, producing a certification value, and associating the certification value to the original content to ensure that the certification value is based on actual individual portions of original content and the device identity of the content acquisition device that provided the individual portions of original content. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A computer readable storage medium including computer program logic encoded thereon that, when executed on a computer system, causes the computer system to produce certified content by performing the operations of:
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receiving original content acquired from a content acquisition device; receiving a device identity associated with the content acquisition device; producing a certification value indicating the original content was acquired from the content acquisition device having the device identity; associating the certification value to the original content to produce certified content that can be verified to represent the original content that was acquired from the content acquisition device having the associated device identity while preventing modification to the original content by processing not associated with the operations of receiving the original content, receiving the device identity, producing the certification value and associating the certification value to the original content; wherein receiving original content acquired from the content acquisition device comprises; receiving individual portions of the original final content over time, each individual portion being smaller than a sum total of the original content; and wherein each individual portion of the original content, once received, is respectively individually processed by an iteration of the operations of producing a certification value and associating the certification value to the original content such that a respective portion of certified content is produced for each individual respective portion of original content;
wherein receiving portions of the original content over time includesincrementally acquiring scanned rows of pixels from a physical source, wherein the scanned rows of pixels are each separately returned for receiving the certification value; and combining respective portions of certified content to produce an entire certified document based on all individual portions of the original content that were received over time while concurrently preventing operator access to the received individual portions of the original content during performance of the operations of receiving original content, producing a certification value, and associating the certification value to the original content to ensure that the certification value is based on actual individual portions of original content and the device identity of the content acquisition device that provided the individual portions of original content.
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27. A computer system comprising:
- a memory;
a processor;
a communications interface coupled to a content acquisition device;
an interconnection mechanism coupling the memory, the processor and the communications interface allowing communication there between;wherein the memory is encoded with a content certifier application, the when executed in the processor, provides a means for producing certified content, the means including; means for receiving original content acquired from a content acquisition device; means for receiving a device identity associated with the content acquisition device; means for producing a certification value indicating the original content was acquired from the content acquisition device having the device identity; means for associating the certification value to the original content to produce certified content that can be verified to represent the original content that was acquired from the content acquisition device having the associated device identity while preventing modification to the original content by processing not associated with the operations of receiving the original content, receiving the device identity, producing the certification value and associating the certification value to the original content; wherein receiving individual content acquired from the content acquisition device comprises; means for receiving individual portions of the original content over time, each individual portion being smaller than a sum total of the original content; and wherein each individual portion of the original content once received, is respectively individually processed by an iteration of the operations of producing a certification value and associating the certification value to the original content such that a respective portion of certified content is produced for each individual respective portion of original content;
wherein receiving portions of the original content over time includesmeans for incrementally acquiring scanned rows of pixels from physical source, wherein the scanned rows of pixels are each separately returned for receiving the certification value; and means for combining respective portions of certified content to produce an entire certified document based on all individual portions of the original content that were received over time while concurrently preventing operator access to the received individual portions of the original content during performance of the operations of receiving original content, producing a certification value, and associating the certification value to the original content to ensure that the certification value is based on actual individual portions of original content and the device identity of the content acquisition device that provided the individual portions of original content.
- a memory;
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28. A method for verifying certified content, the method comprising:
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processing a certification value that is associated with the certified content using a data verification computation that corresponds to a data verification computation applied during an operation of producing a certification value on original content acquired from a content acquisition device, processing of the certification value allowing verification that; i) the certified content contains an original rendition of the original content that was acquired by the content acquisition device having a device identity specified in the certified content; and ii) the certification value was associated to the original content to produce the certified content while preventing modification to the original content by processing not associated with operations of receiving the original content from the data acquisition device having the device identity, receiving the device identity for the data acquisition device that acquired the original content, producing the certification value and associating the certification value to the original content to produce the certified content; wherein the original content was acquired from the content acquisition device as individual portions of the original content received over time, each individual portion being smaller than a sum total of the original content; wherein each individual portion of the original content, once acquired from the content acquisition device was respectively individually processed by an iteration of the operations of producing the certification value and associating the certification value to the original content such that a respective portion of certified content was produced for each individual respective portion of original content; wherein the certified content was produced for each individual respective portion of original content; wherein individual portions of the original content received over time includes incrementally acquired scanned rows of pixels from a physical source, wherein the scanned rows of pixels were each separately returned to receive the certification value; and wherein respective portions of certified content were combined to produce an entire certified document based on all individual portions of the original content that were received over time while operator access was concurrently prevented to the received individual portions of the original content during performance of operations that received original content, produced the certification value, and associated the certification value to the original content to ensure that the certification value is based on actual individual portions of original content and the device identity of the content acquisition device that provided the individual portions of original content. - View Dependent Claims (29)
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