Method and system for digital rights management of documents

摘要

An improved method and system for digital rights management is described.

主权项

1. A method for sending data from a sender to a recipient, the method comprising:
allowing the sender to select an electronic document to encrypt and send to the recipient; allowing the sender to select a set of recipient rights for the selected electronic document; generating a graphical representation of the selected electronic document in response to the sender selecting the set of recipient rights; encrypting the graphical representation of the selected electronic document and the set of recipient rights; encapsulating the encrypted graphical representation of the selected electronic document and the encrypted set of recipient rights into a container; sending the container from the sender to the recipient; and wherein the encapsulated and encrypted graphical representation of the selected electronic document and the recipient rights are accessible by the recipient.