Patent 7,139,761 (the '761 patent) has been asserted by Leader Technologies, Inc. against Facebook, Inc. in a federal district court action alleging willful infringement. The '761 patent could pose a threat to numerous social network sites. This challenge is to determine whether the claims of the '761 patent are valid.
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Summary / Description
| Summary / Description | A system for allowing predesignated users at remotely located computer-based systems to perform document management. Components of the system include public data network, a publication facility, a remote storage facility and a document manager computer-based system. The document manager computer-based system, the publication facility, the remote storage facility are all coupled to the computer-based systems used by the predesignated users over the public data network. The system allows authorized users from remote locations to perform secure document collaboration, share and archive documents, context index documents, digitally notarize documents, electronically file documents and publish documents. |
Basic Information
| Type of Prior Art | Issued Patents - US |
| Country | United States of America |
| Patent/Application # | 6289460 |
| Kind Code | United States (US) - United STATES Patent - A |
| Patentee Name | Assignee: Docusign, Inc. |
| Relevant Pages, Columns, or Lines | (1) col 2, ln 56-65; (2) col 1 |
| URL | http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/... |
| Publication Date | December 6, 1999 |
| Additional Information | Date listed is filing date |
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Excerpt
(1) col 2, ln 56-65 - FIG. 1 illustrates a document management system 20 that is a computer-based, network system. The document management system 20 includes a document manager 21 coupled to a plurality of clients 22 and remote storage 28 over a public or private network 24. The document manager 21 includes components for performing remote document archiving, document collaboration, secure document access, audited document access, digital document signing, document content indexing, document publication and an external document storage for the coupled clients 22.
(2) col 10, ln 16-28 - The document manager 21 also provides a searching and filtering capability. Search criteria is savable for future use. The document manager 21 allows searching against the content of a document as well as the document's attributes. For example, the user searches all documents that have access for a given client as well as containing the words "distributed processing."
All document accesses are granted by the owner of the document. By default no user other than the document owner has any visibility and access to a document unless specifically granted. Additionally, users can only perform an action requested by the owner, and permitted by the user's account against a given document.
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Computer storage of data management
A computer-readable medium for storing computer-executable instructions for a method of managing data, the method comprising: creating data related to user interaction of a user within a user workspace of a web-based computing platform using an application; dynamically associating metadata with the data, the data and metadata stored on the web-based computing platform, the metadata includes information related to the user of the user workspace, to the data, to the application and to the user workspace; tracking movement of the user from the user workspace to a second user workspace of the web-based computing platform; dynamically associating the data and the application with the second user workspace in the metadata such that the user employs the application and data from the second user workspace; and indexing the data created in the user workspace such that a plurality of different users can access the data via the metadata from a corresponding plurality of different user workspaces.
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Managing data via computer-executable acts
A computer-implemented method of managing data, comprising computer-executable acts of: creating data within a user environment of a web-based computing platform via user interaction with the user environment by a user using an application, the data in the form of at least files and documents; dynamically associating metadata with the data, the data and metadata stored on a storage component of the web-based computing platform, the metadata includes information related to the user, the data, the application, and the user environment; tracking movement of the user from the user environment of the web-based computing platform to a second user environment of the web-based computing platform; and dynamically updating the stored metadata with an association of the data, the application, and the second user environment wherein the user employs at least one of the application and the data from the second environment.
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Network-based system for facilitating data management
A computer-implemented network-based system that facilitates management of data, comprising: a computer-implemented context component of the network-based system for capturing context information associated with user-defined data created by user interaction of a user in a first context of the network-based system, the context component dynamically storing the context information in metadata associated with the user-defined data, the user-defined data and metadata stored on a storage component of the network-based system; and a computer-implemented tracking component of the network-based system for tracking a change of the user from the first context to a second context of the network-based system and dynamically updating the stored metadata based on the change, wherein the user accesses the data from the second context.
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Server-based data management
A computer-implemented system that facilitates management of data, comprising: computer-implemented means for creating data by interaction of a user within a user workspace of a server using an application; computer-implemented means for associating metadata with the data, the metadata stored in association with the data on storage means of the server, the metadata includes information related to a user of the user workspace, to the data, to the application and to the user workspace; computer-implemented means for tracking movement of the user from the user workspace to a second user workspace of the server; and computer-implemented means for dynamically associating the data and the application with the second user workspace in the metadata such that the user can employ the application and data from the second user workspace.
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