Selecting, ordering and accessing copyrighted information from physical documents

• US 8,112,363 B2
• Filed: 08/07/2009
• Issued: 02/07/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: ServiceNow Incorporated
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Carro, Fernando Incertis, Barbero, Joseph Maria Varona
• Primary Examiner(s): Reagan, James A
• Application Number:
  US12/537,480
• Publication Number:
  US 20090299871A1
• Time in Patent Office: 914 Days
• Field of Search: 705/59
• US Class Current: 705/59
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/10 Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16 ; Digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]

Abstract

A method and associated computer program product for processing edited objects associated with a physical document. The method is for use in a user workstation by a user. The method includes: determining a position of a point pressed on a touch foil to select an item on a page of the physical document; 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 edited objects table; identifying a first edited object in the edited objects table from an association of the first edited object with the selected item identified by the correlating; ascertaining, that the user does not have a license to use and/or copy the first edited object; and sending, from the user workstation to an edited objects server, a request for information concerning the first edited object.

Claims

1. A method for processing edited objects associated with a copyrighted physical document, said method for use in a user workstation by a user, said method comprising:

said user workstation 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;

said user workstation 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;

identifying a first edited object in the edited objects table from an association of the first edited object with the selected item identified by said correlating;

ascertaining, from informing text in an edited object path column in the edited objects table, that the user does not have a license to use and/or copy the first edited object; and

after said ascertaining, sending, from the user workstation to an 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.

2. The method of claim 1, said method further comprising:

receiving, by the user workstation from the edited objects server, the requested information; and

after said receiving the requested information, displaying or playing the received requested information on the user workstation.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the received requested information comprises:

license terms and conditions pertaining to the first edited object;

pricing and ordering information pertaining to the first edited object; and

the identification of the physical document, the page, and the selected item.

4. The method of claim 2, said method further comprising

after said displaying or playing the received requested information, sending an order from the user workstation to the edited objects server for the license;

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.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the order comprises the identification of the physical document, the page, the selected item, and payment data relating to the selected item and required by a publisher of the physical document.

6. The method of claim 1,

wherein the edited objects table comprises a header section and a body section;

wherein the body section comprises a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, wherein each row of the plurality of rows is specific to a copyrighted edited object; and

wherein the columns comprise the item position column comprising a position of the first edited object on the page, an item name column comprising a name of the first edited object, and the edited object path column comprising said informing text indicating that said any edited object does not exist on the user workstation which denotes that the user does not have the license to use and/or copy said any edited object.

7. The method of claim 6,

wherein said identifying the first edited object comprises identifying the 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 said association of the first edited object with the selected item identified by said correlating.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the edited object path column for at least one row of the plurality of rows comprises a file path to an edited object specific to each row of the at least one row.

9. The method of claim 6, 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.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the first edited object comprises a chapter, notes, a picture, a video element, or an audio element.

11. A computer program product, comprising a computer readable program code stored in a user workstation, said computer readable program code configured to be executed on the user workstation for carrying out a method for processing edited objects associated with a copyrighted physical document, said method for use in the user workstation by a user, said method comprising:

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;

identifying a first edited object in the edited objects table from an association of the first edited object with the selected item identified by said correlating;

ascertaining, from informing text in an edited object path column in the edited objects table, that the user does not have a license to use and/or copy the first edited object; and

after said ascertaining, sending, from the user workstation to an 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.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, said method further comprising:

receiving, by the user workstation from the edited objects server, the requested information; and

after said receiving the requested information, displaying or playing the received requested information on the user workstation.

13. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the received requested information comprises:

license terms and conditions pertaining to the first edited object;

pricing and ordering information pertaining to the first edited object; and

the identification of the physical document, the page, and the selected item.

14. The computer program product of claim 12, said method further comprising

after said displaying or playing the received requested information, sending an order from the user workstation to the edited objects server for the license;

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.

15. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein the order comprises the identification of the physical document, the page, the selected item, and payment data relating to the selected item and required by a publisher of the physical document.

16. The computer program product of claim 11,

wherein the edited objects table comprises a header section and a body section;

wherein the body section comprises a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, wherein each row of the plurality of rows is specific to a copyrighted edited object; and

wherein the columns comprise the item position column comprising a position of the first edited object on the page, an item name column comprising a name of the first edited object, and the edited object path column comprising said informing text indicating that said any edited object does not exist on the user workstation which denotes that the user does not have the license to use and/or copy said any edited object.

17. The computer program product of claim 16,

wherein said identifying the first edited object comprises identifying the 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 said association of the first edited object with the selected item identified by said correlating.

18. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the edited object path column for at least one row of the plurality of rows comprises a file path to an edited object specific to each row of the at least one row.

19. The computer program product of claim 16, 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.

20. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the first edited object comprises a chapter, notes, a picture, a video element, or an audio element.