AU2008100950B4 - Method of Securely Distributing Electronic Content and Reformatting for Easier On-Screen Viewing - Google Patents

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SEP 2008 22:10 REDBANK MANOR PTY LTD 637478Pg 61397441788 Pago 3 Australia Patents Act 1990 COMPLETE SPECIFICATION INNOVATION PATENT Invention title: "Method of Securely Distributing Electronic Content and Reformatting for Easier On-Screen VMewing" The following statement is a complete description of the invention.

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ro "Method of Securely Distributing Electronic Content and Reformatting for Easier On-Screen Viewing" Cl FIELD OF THE INVENTION 00 The invention relates to a method of securely distributing electronic content and reformatting it for easier on-screen viewing. In particular, c the invention provides for in-house publishing or display of S 10 documents over the Internet.

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BACKGROUND

Teletext services have been in commercial use for decpdesto display paged imges of tetural *iformatlon to TV set-top boxes around the wodd. The idea was based around the notion of an online.nlewspaper. Teletext has the elctronic advantage of uodating its pages live as events unfold, with a far broader range.of indexed topics on demand than traditlonal television news can deliver. Despke these advantages, Teletext has not become popular, lacking the richness of CeQntent types, navigabilty, search-abllty, Inteacity, arity, capacity and reach of the Internet Home as a publishing system, the Internet only caine of age when the World Wide Web wis invented which embodied these charactristics inton a roling page and hypeink paradigm. But for many commercial publishers, the World Wide Web has been financially disastrous.

Unike Teltext, which usually required a proprietary decoder to access, the We distributes its Infoirmaton by liberaly sending easily decodable content s0urc4 fis to proxy servers and end users alike. This allows any recipient to make unaurizoed dupifoatlons. Consequenly; to avoid the nstant devaluation of content through Wunauthoized repubshln via newsgroups. proxy senrsa, email, pirate sites and the like, publishers have kept most of the world's best content off the net, confining it to paper instead. AM a result, many authors COMS ID No: ARCS-207579 Received by IP Australia: Time 22:19 Date 2008-09-25 SEP 2008 22:10 REDBANK MANOR PTY LTD 61397441788 Page 00 U8aBBS5P zfH6 2' 0 ~whose Works have not been recognized as satisfying the. economics of conventional paper pubflshing still .remain unpublishecj.

A number of approach'e to solvig 6tesproblems have been based on the concept of allowing end-useors to downoad an encrypted copy of the document and allowing access after a required -royalty fee has been paid- Unfortunatety, hackers have thwarted many of thei rnethbds by breaking into unprotected end-ussr program memory after the content has been decrypted.

result, system; based on dwniaing encrypted ;fies hove rib? gained pul l Jier acoepten~o.

a Remote display potoc* have beti sloy'eveloping te robustness oa sca abi tlty r e l o th trn oflive c dpu t een i ages over the Internet to big audienceLs These protocols work by maintaining the end-user's applicatipn on a seNer,-while only sending the srsn'u!ate s to an end user's display, the seen Image updates take -comparatively ite.

bandwidth totranndit easily traversing a standard dia-up modem instead of needing tl4k coaxial cable, as Is the case with cable TV. The'success of these protocols is achieved by avoiding where possible the sending of bulky pixel-forpixel or fSekttyffieNd pictures of screens from tha server to the endtuer, but instead sending compacl graphics ommandp. These Ere able to rapidly mirror the fonts and shapes on the end-use's.dlsplay. Mlouse-cvicks and keystrkes are sent back to the erer over theasame:netwcwl tosupport end-dser interaction With the live scree". Exampleof induty-standard reMoe d isplay .protocols Intlude Citrix CA, Microsof RDPend Unased X-il.

Thoiugh a go6dltedhnology fr transmitia the: reivly simple gray Images o f pications, rem'ot.dispitay protocl bithcms~f lvs arnot as good at sendinrg comlex dcum Images over sorrtirnies.iow netrks, like the interne POnprob'em is they .often do' dnplpayscroinavj"we u,-fta redrawing brg chunks.6f the Screen, which then needs transmitting to the eduers ispla. Ti'p roblrnIs compounded on sall-scen devices tuIh as mabile phones, which requke alot of scroffng to faithfully present documents in unmodified fotm.

COMS ID No: ARCS-207579 Received by IP Australia: Time 22:19 Date 2008-09-25 SEP 2008 22:10 PEDBANK MANOR PTY LTD 61397441788 Pagoe 6 00 *44m41W F4 fl~ 3 Additionally, delays over the Internet In gattino a user's mouse-clicks back to the server and the apprppriate screen update back to the* 'user c .an caus several cilck6 to be sent in frustration 'bemause nothing is happening'.

tt~ This leads to oVoer-smrllrtg and subsequent scxol11ng back again. This effect is exacerbated when the Internet is iacessed over cell phon6 or satellite networks, which being radio-bssed, ma~y Introduce. additional roundtrip response delays of at least;a second.

Clicks for scrolling can abo cause problem at the server, ossignificant computing powear will be required to execute commands. frcqm hundreds of 00 10 simultaneous remote display users on the one machine. Indeed, depending oni the container application in which the document is being displayed, smoling 2nd navigation iintfi bia ipcsble to. achi#ve Satisfatonly, with the application redrawing and thus fesendina the entire sceen several times for each mouse click, slowing the user expeience down'to a crami. Thusa documeoids Vlisigried for the Wakt for pnnlrting or in device Independent formats such os Adobe Acrobt file may not work well unmodified Nf transmitted using rerriote display protocols.' A significant Inhibitor to the adoption of remote display protocols for Internat-stye documprnt image puiblishing has been tOst., It takes aft lest an order of magnitude thore. processing power to support 'an eftd-user's -remote graphical user intdrfac -bn-a server than Just sending them a simple Web page.

Additionally, many Web servers are downloaded free to the service p'rbvider, while remote ii isptay prqtocls and their operating system, suitaw foDr slow networks such as the Internet are typically quiite expensive. This mans that commerclal online. publising cannot-take place using remot diplyprotocols unless the Internet publishers micro-ayments problem is addressed. This occurs wvhan a document Is worth less to the eind user than the additional cost of a credit or benk transaction charge to tMe publisher.

one anawr has. b~n erj. publishrs to sell- o& sbacriptions to a sit Instead of Individual documents. with users -onsumiigtheir deposited funds as documents are made availabl. Th is idea- has Otree problems:*rty vr .publislher mhust run their .own secaure biling and tracking system, which rejresents a high barrier to entry for the world's 80,0003 amall pubishers: COMS IDNo: ARCS-207579 Received by IP Australia: Time 22:19 Date 2008-09-25 SEP 2008 22:10 REDBANK MANOR PTY LTD 61397441782 Page 7 00WOBee5Prpnrz o~ scondly, Overy pvblisbr wouldneed. tQ instill trust to'a seurity anidprac weay pb~i, tat hey would n.ot loose8 th01r money or the privacy of theirrit Cardoais fri~i~ nrsrwl wants to see~one document. the-rest Of their e&ubsoription- i4 wasated.

These probl§tths coulid be addressed by creit 6a certriliie d CrOSSpublisher bilig and tracking systemf, alliowin-g users f6pay a sinlgle entity for a u niversel subsciptilon'. But ti idea raises another bouhd -6f SI ehia challengqes,4debb ti~teIVelrnature ofremote ilay protocos.

0 T he prob e m s f bf hlng and rackng li edo cu m enta im agas M ainly -relate with this many sutbsri is. ofisi~der all. -A rjjewspaper s ite, it hL nrdreds of. Woutands ofraes ol esleeae tihnd 6f taf F16 ev"n tIne a o trytbraks. Ukwsvi reneonal datab~es used for lWe 'bifing and t -cfrgare usually only rate-d ti terrtwentythousand users at once. A mlc6i~'ro-antssy*stei is required thAt supporits at tbast a million live simultaneous remote display protocol document imnage usesrs. A bitllng and trock jgytemothssjL not currwnlty-araffalbla. Furtherore a remote display protocol Ooument -image pubishing system also facm Vie problem of piroducing up to the second accout details for millons of peoopieinstantly on. denand,,ro-Ing not an ongoing cre~i balace but a~mbcture of ceaOr andpending funhds fop a-variety of. aourqes..

dbntentystem dind t6 supor Comma ci Ionline puiblishing. Refe rence* may .be had to thre United 14W"es patentsL~ cwe eo desorites a 09stem, of storing igta works In secure.

repositories. fach ha.ascstdwt tt- em rii n o acessing the work. The work is not accDessble by a user until the fees and c~dion resaisid.Otc a i e Is td" accessl th M Work is transferred 'to a decuiWrbnideair i 9at thaft cudes ier remde&n ftpo69oiY. The Security'of the sysfethes upOn the sedty o :f the eotory,* whichli n COMS ID No: ARCS-207579 Received by P1 Australia: Time 22:19 Date 2008-09-25 SEP 2008 22:11 REDBANK MANOR PTY LTD 61397441788 Page 8 00 wct asoms o encryptioh system, Once access is granted the digital work Is resident on the user's system and thersfore subject to decryption and copying.

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US 5838443 is similar to US 5629980 but extends the invention to cover composite diital works that include digital video, digital music and printer-ready documents. To achieve this extension the patent defines a digital work as Shavinge rleanttitn part and a content part. The mechanism of vsing Irn epositories for serving and requesting digital works is ithe same as described in US 5629980.

The third Xerox patent US 5634012; focuses on the fee accounting 00 mechaniism of the system described In US 5629980.

Xerox Corporation has approached the problem of commercial online publishing by proposing, In essence, a software photbcopier, The idea appears to be for end users to use this software to reproduce content whereby such reproductions amre metered for access by authorized parties and charged for accordingly- However, the content still becomes resident on a users machine and is therefore subject to unauthorized copying if theiecurity protocols ea circuinvented.

International patent application numibr PCT/US9O/0368, iri the name of Chat Techiologe s Services Inc; has a iniber of Simorites to the Xerox system. The Chat system is directed primanly to an autoticafty Invoked Sintermediation pwous for levying feesfromnaetwork .purchases. Like the Xerox approach, Cha! rlies upon encryption of the digital work which is unlocked after a financial) transaction is verified. As the.digital work finall resides on the purchasers system, it inmay still be sibject to unauthorized copying and distribution.

Another problem to be addressed when distributing electronic documents is the rendering of the documents for.display on the users system. This problem is particularly.relevantwlth the popularity of the WAP phone technology that allow eectronic documents to be.displayed on LCD aeerrs that may be only a few centimeters wide. A number of approaches have been taken to address this issue. -One such.approach is rescribedin United States.Patent Application number 2001-0011364, in the name of Straoub. Stroub reformnats documents into COMS ID No: ARCS-207579 Received by IP Australia: Time 22:19 Date 2008-09-25 SEP 2008 22:11 REDBANK MANOR PTY LTD 61397441788 Page 9 00 oM coun i ta b n umber ot opmatwi pr line. o inumbr of SCdlt~fflf is 8~tpto vj$ R OVeQ sMP9a The appmoao at $bmoUb is useful for simple text ts 1. of lknftid vaqpt for me com nir contnt Cl Pw.h apr4 i!..ip4Ct is 4eiajbm l U tS Q46md Vlt *81 8448w iv OWe name 0 IBM 9oip. -proech is to Iln ent navigatIon beteen paris of a docnlebnt emgte lgnlffqanc 0 chont ent to u0saran Coqntint-besed -14* Iskd p90W"t pkflepfe Mhanisrn f Iay Ocontent tat Is not practical for mast applicatins.

00 Tbp rio art aoesnot 4re a antem tht $NOw" fr sour distrlbuion of eleCtrniWW&C 4ournnf Qtthe pI Of tI. .gea via nrmoter dssplyprotcols and a me ansm for colfecffpg an4 dstriutingl fees OSJ~C~lI~hW~1~1oN It is an object of the present invention to provide a method to securely distribute electronic documents for caching and display.

It is a further object of the invention to provide an improved user experience for viewing electronic content Further objects will be evident from the following description.

In one fonn, alo Itneed not be the only or idOed the brodet form, t he lvenwxtiorrresdr w qsysm for seat. dlstjufoflew. Mct content JO~~WA f eondflndd6"s Offe~gj 49f antidJW sl~agant~.~sartN. kX1 df ffflr 4rrWW 'one" at'nor. presentattieh 6bsW the .AW" lhtk*, eotrol cbnrt Worn COMS ID No: ARCS-207579 Received by IP Australia: Time 22:19 Date 2008-09-25 SEP 200B 22:11 REDBANK MANOR PTY LTD 61397441788 Page 00 w nesos PTU L: O 7 repositories, reformat the electronic content, and render the electronic content for display by remote display protocols.

Suitably the management subsystem resides on centralized server groups but the presentation subsystem may be distribted across many distributed servers.

o The system may also include an interface subsystem that provides access for users to the electronic content. and indicates any fees to be levied.

0 o Suitably the system also includes a paymenft subsystem that intermediates payments between fee payers, fee receivers and one or more 00 o 10 financial institions or organisatons maintaiing accounts on behalf of others.

C In! preference, the invention may also include one or more stakeholder subsystems that.provide management functions for authors, pubilshers, advertsers, developers, the oporators of the system and other takeholders.

Management functions Include associating business models, domprising but not IS limited to scaipts, documents and data,.with electronic content. Business models are used to implement relationships betWiveen all the stakeholders and endusers. The stakeholder subsystems are suitablydistribited across computers convenient to each stakeholder, and are in communication with the Smanagement subsystem.

Electonic content is preferably electronic documents but may also be video, audio, printer instructions or other digital media.

In a further form the invention resides in a method of securing electronic content Including the steps of storing the electronic content in a repositoiry associating business models with the electronic content; recelving a request from a user io view the electronk content; chding business models associated with the electroic content for determiniii fee stricture inforat!o,; crediting dcounts With efes aoding t the fee structure information; and presenting the *ectonic content to the user via rebte display protocols.

COMS ID No: ARCS-207579 Received by IP Australia: Time 22:19 Date 2008-09-25 SEP 2008 22:11 REDBANK MANOR PTY LTD 61397441788 Page 11 00 WBWJSfnS BRIEF-DETA I. OFTHE DRAWINGS To assist In understanding the invention preferred embodiments will now be descjibed with reference to, the 'following figures in which- FIG I displays an overview of the system; FIG 2 is an overvi4' ff tema,aement susyifem; :'FIG3 -is an overview of the presentation subsystem; o FIG 4 is an overvieW of the stakeholder subsyatem;' 00 FIG 5 is ar overview of the web interface subsystem; FIG 6 is an overview of th'e paym ents subsystem; ci.

ETA;ILED DESjlbpQiON* o1PIEp3wlG Ret'afeing to F16 1, there is shown M oerview of the system fo secure Is disiibuori of elerdnic documnets and fd ecllcld otfees paid for content access. The systim conssts oft W6 core sbsystiems a nd three supporting subsysteiff, FoT eas bf ef&arlation the invention is decribed in terni or elecroic documents but-it will be appreiated that it incudes any formi o olectronic content.

Tho wore sujbsytl&s are a mans'98gbmient sibiystem, and a'presentatin subsystem. These 64ie subsstms are suppoted by a stakeholder subsystem a paymsnta ubsystern and an intrfke subsystem.

The Management subsystem integrates the operation of the-other siubsystems and mhanaes access tthe coneuait. it als o bnfrces be manner in which content may be siid".

The 'Preaenttion subsystem handes tpe enedng and reformnattng of documents suitable for transmsion via rrnote dlppjay pmotqcols it also haF.We rIaging and navigation. This Icone under tMsuperviin and. control Of te managemnt sMubystem There nauyto miipresetation subsystems distilbuted across multiple servers.

COMS ID No: ARCS-207579 Received by IP Australia: Time 22:19 Date 2008-09-25 SEP 2008 22:12 REDBANK MANOR PTY LTD 61397441788 Page 12 00 O 9 c Stakeholder subsystems allow preparation and publisher control of content by stakeholders for display by the presentation subsystems. Content may include text documents, images, advertising, applets or other material. The stakeholder subsystem-also associates business models (financial models and S other information pertaining to the use and effect of a document). A Stakeholder subsystems also store master copies of a publishers documents (current and In previous) plus provides staging and assembly areas for future publication.

o The Payments subsystem handles all aspects of payment for viewing of content, including interfacing with financial institutions or other organisatons for O0 o 10 payment clearance. The subsystem deducts and makes payments under the i control of the management subsystem.

The interface subsystem provides hyperlinks, prices, authentication and other information to Web pages, the Presentation subsystem and other information viewing systems, such as WAP servers, This enables content imaged by the invention to be advertised online.

The current embodiment of these subsystemsmay be used in the following publishing scenarin: 1. Application service providers (ASPs) load the interface and presentation subsystems on their computer(s), connecting thm to the management subsystem via virtual private networks); 2. Stakeholders such as publishers, content creators, advertising executives, advertisers and developers use the stakeholder subsystem(s) to put their documents on a senver, attaching pricing models etc to them plus their release dates and staging instructions etc; 3. Publishers (or other stakeholders under certain circumstances) use the stakeholder subsystem(s) to nominate the ASPs they wish to image their content for them or let the management subsystem allocate these automatically; 4. The interface subsystem advertise documents or associated groups of documents by providing URLa (or other content pointers) and pricing information to publisher web sites etc; COMS ID No: ARCS-207579 Received by IP Australia: Time 22:19 Date 2008-09-25 SEP 2008 22:12 REDBANK MANOR PTY LTD 61397441788 Page 13 00 Wo~aML67 sf~F3~g o 0 Users alick on advertised tJRLs, initiating an authentication session yvia the. interface subsystqms; C/ 6. After duthenticaton;the management subsystems assess the users right and financial standing to see the desired document image ii relation to any associeated business rodels; o 7. If h1 ser has the required' aess rights in ld funds on hand, the presentation subsystem is inade available to displa te required document image if not, the user is lead throughihe proeto of hihoid acceis rights if so alowed by the assocated' business modelt and supplyin the required fnds 00 10 through the payment subsystems; 8. The presentation subsystem presents the requested document or choice of document-within a group of documents accordhg o the conditions set by the stakeholders and as enforced by the managerient sibsiteim;.

As the image f a chn docureni beig successfully presented, accounts within the manageblernt subsyteim ae being credited and deducted accordingly; The presentation subsystem alows the Uer to search and navigate within a document arid over the publishers document image site or over mrUtiple sites; 29 11. The presentation subsystem informs the management subsystem of document usage details, Including advertising exposures etc 12. Usels may search and view other.docutnent images as access rights and fund6 allow, belngdiverted to appropria to areas if iese are deficient 13T. Th miiaeunt subsystem splits the revenues end expenses between i tfie itakihders d to th#s16 in and financial models and whidh stakeijo-ier ori inated each document accessed; 14 Paymentsdeductions are periodically settled with each of the siehol ders i the pajments iubsystem.

Looking at eah subsystem in detail, Fl$ 2 shows an overview of the management subsystem.

COMS ID No: ARCS-207579 Received by IP Australia: Time 22:19 Date 2008-09-25 SEP 2008 22:12 REDBANK MANOR PTY LTD 61397441788 Page 14 00 .mT PWA~ltl 7 0 eC Management subsystem The management subsystem consists of four key physical and logical V) elements tiles, processes, signals, and extracts.

Files contain encrypted cookies of information, using a position in a o directory hierarchy to reflect the context in which the information was generated.

0" Processes act to summarise these files into meaningful reports, o transferring them into compressed archives to save on disk space. These summraries may be presented to end-users in tabular form, suitable for use by a 00 O 10 spreadsheet or database program. Processes may be triggered at set times or o upon request, depending on the volume of files being handled and the timeliness of the information required.

Signals are files used to communicate messages or pass information between processes. The transmission of signals is the responsibllity of the messaging units. Ultimately, most signals will become files. For example, a signal ient by the presentation subsystem to the management subsystem may be unpacked and stored by the latier in a number of relevant directory hierarchies. Therefore signalling is also a bandwidth reduction mechanism, as one signal from a presentation subsystem may cause many reads or writes in the file hierarchies maintained by the Mariagement system. Copies of selected reports, files or archived files may then be aggregated info extracts, tn be captured by database applications for detailed off-ine analysis.

XML files and messging units are used throughout the figures and description by way of example only. The system is not limited solely to XML.

Because this subsystem must eventually scale to handle millions-of simultaneous users accessing millions of documents, information must be stored in a way closly resembling its intended use, in this way, processing will be reduced, saving rmony and increasing performance. Therefore the same information will often be stored In different ways. This also allws verification by crosscheckingplus applicationevel data redundancy, enabling robust disaster recovery, even from damaged backup media.

COMS ID No: ARCS-207579 Received by IP Australia: Time 22:19 Date 2008-09-25 SEP 2008 22:12 REDBANK MANOR PTY LTD 61397441788 Page 00 W 6eeisr o 12 In.order to support the most common information requests, files are stored in directory hierarchies, which closely reflept their ue by particulr;

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cohorts of Users, Therefore, upon document presentaio tothe reader, the V) Management subsystem may employ the followng set of hierarchical file stores: 1 Document usage record: A hierarchy reflectingthe frequencies by which documents have been used over time, the top two directory levels for example being publisher arid publication, the next being based on the document names o and paths, thein year-month, date and hour directories. An eamnpleidrectory path would be \Log-SevereFrequency.Logswopsular PublishingDaiy 00 10 Times\Froh PagelFirst Story\2001-007\09. This represents how ofte the first O story located on the front page of Popular Publishing's Daily Times, was viewed from 9 to 10 AM on the It of May 2001. This hierarchy also contains financial models generated by stakeholder applications.

2. Documents by autho: A hierachy iridicating the popularity of Authors pertainng to the use of documents, the top two directary levels for example being publisher and author, the next being based on the publication, document names and paths, then year-month and date dairectories. An example directory path woul g-d s L g-ervAMuthor-Lopopuar PublshinglBl.Smith isp.comlDaly llmolFrgnt Page\flrst Stoy2001-05o7m This represpents the use of ill Smith's article appearing on the front page of Popular Publishing's Daoly Times, on the 7th of May 2001.

3. Reaq record: A hirasrchy inwicating. the w of documents by readers, the top two direcory levels for example being based on the reader, year-month, then pubication. An example directory path would be Log-Server\pader- LogsFredTJonekn.com\2001-05\07\Daily Times\. This represents Fred Jones' usebft li~kai~i,£6,t of £ty201 4. Document by reader. A hierarchy iF roadr document accemses rights. The top two directory levels for example are eader epd publisher, the ne4 based on the pubiuatlon, document names and paths, An example directory path. would beog-SeerAuthor- Logs\FredJones@ispcomPoplutr PublishingDfaly TinesFront Pagirst COMS ID No: ARCS-207579 Received by IP Australia: Time 22:19 Date 2008-09-25 SEP 2008 22:12 REDBANK MANOR PTY LTD 61397441788 Page 16 00 ~~U~1i 13 ri StoryL. This represents Fred Jones right to review an article appearing on t front page of Popular Publishing's Daily Tlime, on the 7th of May,2001.

Document to link-. A hie6rarchy Indic'atih6 which documrents had Ihypeuiinks clicked within Itm, thetptodrcoylvl fdr example being Publisher and.

publication, the next being based'on the document names and paths, thien yeamonth and d* dires.. e le directory path would be klog-' Serve\To-Link-Logs~Poplular P4jb~iehing0Daly Thies~ront PagekFirSt, story I" A5~7~ This reprosents tID hypelinks clicked-'in tfirst .storl __located on the front page of Popular Publishing'Daffy Uimes, an the 7th' of May- 00 10 2001.

6. Document fromi link., A hierarchy indicating how users reached particular documents, the top two directory levels, being for example publisher and publication,, the next being based* on tedocuiment names and pIaBh, then Yearmonth and date directores. An example directdry path would be ~IVog- SeiveAFrom-Link-LagsxpopluI4r Publishing~paiy Tmmnes\Front Page\First Story\2O01-05607% This represents the hyperlinks clicked in the first story located'on the front page'of Popular Publishing'Dafly Time, on the 7Ith of May 2001, Advertsln record: A hierarchy bested ori wheo and when'-advertising aPpeared, the'top.two directory levelqs for example being publisher Atd pubilcation, thei next bein adVertiser then. ddveertient, year-month and date directories. An example directory path would be %,o§4SerVdAdvrtlser- Logs\Popllar l'ubilshlr.GP.Dziy Tlmes\Mirhty M.10-4tMlng\Better mouse Tr9p\200i-05X07\. This. represents the dslyOf Mighty Marketing's Better Mouse Trap adbon tha 7t~h of May, 2001 treds.of Pdpular Puoli~hing'z Daly Tims.

8. E13)ouments -by Advertsing E-xeutive: A hierarchy Indicating tho v!e'~ng of advertising -in' relation to theiravoount Manugersthe top twd directoy levels fbr Oxa mple Wen pulshr on xcutve the neit being baseld on t publicationt,.advertiser, adverfisemet, noxt.ya-noth and date drectories then- document names and pa"l. An example directory paMt WotMd be \\Log- Sever\Ad.-Executive--Logs\roplular PublishingXD Evid. Brown@lsp.coomhighty COMS ID No: ARCS-207579 Received by IP Australia: Time 22:19 Date 2008-09-25 SEP 2008 22:13 REDBANK MANOR PTY LTD 61397441788 Page 17 00WOBSI.rTATO/;7 o 14 0 Mark9Unvg\Qeter Mouse Trap\200l-05oMADa4 Timges\Frunt Paga\Fist Story\.

This..rsPE~~pres David Srown's sales of Mouisje ,rap: ads appaarin9; on thw front Page of Popular Publishing's Daily twoes, on te7th of May 2001.

In 9. Document by'resolutic., A hierarhy baed onscieen sizes and viewing distances, -the top two directory level for eXaml eigpbise n pubica nthe nex tbeing screen size, -then zoom level, y'epr-month and -date dtd:dM example dctr Oathi would be: ALog*ejvrRegdutj-.

LogslPoplular Publihkng~paily Time,\1 024x;768\'12z01 -o5~ Thjs __represents the use Of 1'024..x 768 pixel. sized scees Mat a zoom level of 120.

00 10percent on the 7th of May, 2001 by readers of Popular Publishing's Dily Tlme&.

:.ASP secyor usage:. A hierarchy based on Application servie providers thi sevrwt h o w drcoylvl xmple being-ASP and server, then year-Month, d~teand-hour~oi An sxarnple directory pathwould. ba \Wog.Se S0P-LogVlie AS'rdu nSewver 212001 0517\9. This INrepesnts how Reliablle ASP's numbww server-was utilised fraon 9 to l0OAM On lbs 7th Qf May 2001.

11. Do3bjmnet by I~address: A hierairchy baseW on IP add'resse9' with the top two directory levels for example being publisher and publication, tenext sbcjr ahll be made up, of .year-month and datdieors.Aeaml 4irectofry pg'qtla WoPld ibq: %\ogServerAlP-Lqgopla Publishirg~aily TimesM~206asZoa2 \20Oi-01X0A This reprperis the usq of IP addre s 00:3.2 on the 7th of MaY, 200-1:by readeS of Popoer Publlshing's Daily 17mos, -12. Documenit by Erra,'A-hlerarchy based on documt which have genmated errors, the top three directory levels for example being yearmonth, dat anl or, Men publisher and uliatil)fl enei.ei asdo h document. names and paths, -then ASP. And Server direcries.- An example directory pah would be nruow w p .PUjlishingObaily TrresFrOnt:PageFirsJ $toiyielable ASPServe r 2,hi reets tefror retordod in the first story located on the front page of COMS ID No: ARCS-207579 Received by IP Australia: Time 22:19 Date 2008-09-25 SEP 2008 22:13 REDBANK MANOR PTY LTD 61397441788 Page 18 00 wPe6timA rCTAJo/ 667n i O s ri Popular Publishing's Daily Times, on the 7th of May 2001, between 9 and SAM, running on Reliable ASP's number two server.

13. Document by Revenue: A hierarchy based on documents recording revenue generation, the top two directory levels for example being publisher and publication, then document names and paths, the next being based on the o year-month, date and hour, then ASP and Server directories. An example directory path would be \kog-SeverRevenue-LogsIPopluar PublishinglDaily o TmesFWront PageaFrst Storyl2001)50w7091Reliable ASPServr 2. This 0 represents the revenue made from the first story located on the front page of 0 10 Popular Publishing's Daiy T ims, on the 7th of May 2001, between 8 and o( AM, running on Reliable ASP's number two server. This hierarchy may also be used to calculate frequent reader points.

14. User funds: A hierarchy based on the funds available in user accounts, the top directory level being for example user ID or the publisher's user ID, then two sub directories at the same level cleared funds and uncleared funds, then three sub-directories at the same level, Fundsin, FundsOut, FundsAdjust An example directory path would be \\Log-ServerlFunds-Logs\EricWilson\ ClearedPundsFundsin. This represents the funds deposited by Eric Wilson that have been cleared of the possibility of credit card fraud or cheque dishonour, Being a user rather than a publisherss user Identifies that the funds belong to a universal subscription, not an individual publisher.

Entity Lookup codes! A hierarchy of entities and their codes. These codes shall be used to abbraviate filepaths so descriptions exceeding Windows 256 character limit can be accommodated. For speed, such lookups do not contain files, only directory names, and the iast diretor 1 y of the structure represents.the desired code.

In poe embodiment there are four classes of proceses to be supported by the Management subsystem, These are Wvenu, user; administration and system. All of these processes store their information in the hierarchies .described above. The following tables detail proce names, functions and characteristics: COMS ID No: ARCS-207579 Received by IP Australia: Time 22:19 Date 2008-09-25 SEP 2008 22:13 REDBANK MANOR PTY LTD 61397441788 Page 19 we OW N IOne Funon hrtretc Check aCessu~kirj Ut r;'Cevwfl1lzin by PUO(!sher, ASP, not! readerhierarchy for any restrictefuspended problems in alkyOwng users' to see the contents of "a Got price Detinines If. the Lfii teViW" block requestedo docuent is hie .rarc~hy to bdi)-k.. Prices ohaigeatle and for hmrw JdcUmnt In relation to much or can be, who Is aWPQn for*th prie Almefunds Reevsubsoption P~es~ryation sy#stem qUows moneys of *Wioih 0"i4l srs6 t b blocks tor a rmqu Wed Bcowunt plua lw ients document or servc are only charged whon OpensftU~ Ow mlte Opn "omnt Troe~a qiCk ces AJ"~sK~~~ git ai fcaa plihrto 6pen'h funds to allow a documwt, Once Opened, a document to be opened ocuirntt Sold function is sent to malcethe ch arge Do-aliot U~rd Une A44bcwption If McIMInfailto )ad 'bloks for a reqited tlirf another dcument nocmets s6Id Dd s win Also trigers docurent ort fuds !%flow qiwvotmrowoa to update various hierarchies USR IROESSES Subvll fbe ~Recharqe' tocount View -aount

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-AMDd ubqcription deal i s hr srffr~ Tis 'vtoe .in$.l~~jnet.o Proc4Me credft card delll ad Vnunt Via c T0.iar$90M objec Mut M t6fully handle re acted .reqUets etc-: Allws Ser to Beea post transactions and account balances.

AI otrtefd-u~g~s to after contac deAl A -din lreae rec~!ds hiiasathy (Stored in lRea~er Recs hierarchy) COMS ID No: ARCS-207579 Received by IP Australia: Time 22:19 Date 2008-09-25 SEP 2008 22:13 REDBANK MANOR PTY LTD 61397441788 6139741788Page i~MJJt~2IO1r67 Name ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESSES Credit fund blocks Debit viownbih ce Function i Add mnohey to a user's a8ccount Deduct money from a u~er's account Pad _viewng blocks to a document for a use ~Douct viewing blockes from a1 document for a Charac 7 teristics This -is uised to adjust balIancesfr promotions eta This is usepd to transfer funds between accounts etc Thi ls'uiie to adjust balances for promotions etc Thi, 1i usiid t6 trnsfer view~n blocks bet~een ReudCard S end unspenftuds to Leig adling fee in mt'ost ceredit card oas es, via credit card COM object SuspenAd dcm-ent tpsadocumnt fro Th~is sused to 'turn, off' a being approved for all troublese'n document users by the billing Suspend*publiatn -Stossluet~ This 1s used totumn off a p~lcatonfrom being pulblcation .approvedbY the irtin Restriclt Lmer access RsetrASt USers to and Alows busnesses to; from <oerwwi contrw more ernplQyee ~ublcalons,'dc~tjmnts 90,blocks Wor etc.

uspend us&r -Siiipeds L1i user 'Turn Wff a uses, user caunt Ylqe513 recharge econt.

Suspnd server- Qenies a document Used to block accessto6a acc:6 bated on the. sfver cauing problem:' server, Susipend AS P Denie7s af documnt Used to- blckaces to aCi; bas~ed oin the: ASs -causing peobjtrns SYSTEM PR OCESSES Name FuntionCharacterisuct Clear fnd& Afi~ays tMh nclal Ptof thea risk anialy*i unit htearqhiies to sep what.

unscan be moved frdmn pending td tfeaed Daily updatea Summarlses laily Based on ate directore in up~ats itoweklywi Vrious hiera'rchie~s.

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Error log mol Reqias-tifo Halt process Shutdown pr Clarqueue.

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darly Summrie mohl ae on mfionty reports ujpdate in year t6o date- Transfars'm6nthty' and quarterly updates!6 directories to comprossed Books 4p and .restores 1§ackup device must not archives interrupt any other prces 'tring Watches for cta1@ Auoaily raises alerts errors. usingep i t Gets system information. Used tocheci the status' of about e om" Ponents servieces Torminatni4 jproceis. Use&d whe ervics are abruptly m19isbhaving. Current plocss is instantly Grpcflyc~e Allows current activities to proces's at its.eartist complete before terminating possible convenience Deetr~ allXk~l.Used whenrresellng docum.r. In processes XvleIGrg block: is a Particular rltatlon of a financial model, Which lncude aoominaio oftim ad dclumert $essOn access charges. Such viewing blocks may also span multiple docutrents. or site$, St-8ra7490of the XIVIL hierarchies may take place on a tier af servers used exclusiv*l for file serVices, CCl~lctive ase ss EoOyTed contra- a i-,c Fiancilal signals trnmitted. D~y XML ni Wig~g rstake lac ovar virtual private networks which themselves are encryted. One ofthe .commuhicationa may contaiii, a sig-raI set, but even if it or y omnist- of one s~naI suc a cmmun li n I DsO -nw Esnoe a nvery opoiin Is.

Issgnr uiqen be e itn rdxnfo purposes, generateJ by the sending XML messaging unit. Thlsfomstlemai part of the encrypted-XML file's. namea and so RPPear$.Wfthirvthe file, maftn an SMatteimpt to changeanr oPerstin -numbqr Whtile in transit easy to detect.

Oration nuftbelim consists of an petiN tpe code, an ASP I D, server ID. Gession IDQ and timestatwp camombd With a seqpence number The COMS ID No: ARCS-207579 Received by IP Australia: Time 22:19 Date 2008-09-25 SEP 2008 2 2:14 REDBANK MANOR PTY LTD 61397441788 Page 22 00 crAr ''i 19 operation type code allows receiving components to take basic actibns with the encrypted-XML file without having to open it The sequenco numbris used to diftr~ntkte operation numbers on systemhs capable of formTing multiple signals within a'Single, unft of their system clock's time. Therefore a timestamp of 2001081000000000020 indicates the 20 th rignal .issied at exactly midnight (to the mllisecond) on Auguit 10, 2001.

Thus, a properly formed operation number will look like this: DocilnfoReq.CFC.10ool10FCF23,2001 0810000000000.' 00 Operation numbers allow the tracking of requests In relation to pmcesses. For example, an operation to exttact all customer details may be CIdisallowed, even for ak u~c w442- high entough raw dalta ar riiees o tlhe grounds the signals within the operatAfn do not constitute a legal pmoce;;s. That is, all operations must match at least one set-of predeterminod signals and be executed withint an acceptable timeframe. AUl attempted illegal operatibns Eire duly logged.

A group of like signals may be sent in one encrypted XML message as a -signol batch. Whiether sent indhviually or in a batch, every enc"yWe XML message has an operation number The display units interacting with end-users are hardened against denial of Ben/ice attacks. This Is Implemented by monitoring end-usiar activity, limiting the number of repeat. operations for which n~o POYrnet it requilred.

Most database, authentication and n*wigmcaim a~ndIo corporate Use (such as Microsoft's Active Directory, SQL Server a'nd COM- Piui) do not pefrfoj weli for more than 20,000 ailultaeneous users. A medium szed agazne, typia -ulse usr. has 80,000 subscribers and there are around 144,000 magazines in the Engfish-peaking world, The bilfing .nd tracking aspect of the management system must provide universal, puber sal'ad indivdual tile subscription services for all of these. Therefore the Management and Stakeholdr subsystems and messaging unit are file-based for sirhp iclty, vwith Inbuilt load -buaning mechanisms..

COMS ID No: ARCS-207579 Received by IP Australia: Time 22:19 Date 2008-09-25 SEP 2008 22:14 REDBANK MANOR PTY LTD 61397441788 ____Page 23 00 .Q -Nw WC'AJ F,~iI With informlation stored In a nLuber ot herarchioai file structures, the management sub~system repository naturally )ends itslf to partltioning between directories, volumnes and .servers. These hierar hles may also be further V)partitionied according to the logical groupings within thorm (alphabetialy A-K and L-Z for, qeemp) asqired. Thus load balancing can be achieved using simple partitionIng techius Presentation subsystem Tho Presenitation subsystem operates in four stages under the cbntrol of 00 1.0 the management -;ubestem. It consists of four. units, for, INptay cache formeffng WWd findedrg of documents: 1. Display Unit: Thli i resjonibl'or maintan heedue interaction a .nd ithali' dcumen~ts for t nsmissioni Iusingrmtipa pfotco:Th d4sply Uiitalso incoipobe a nui1~bef 'of Wbtures to detect misuse of the systemlf.

2. Multi-resolution, mult-agniffication document caches: Documents procesbirig by rsinig pre'vIoul fuat cotiitf a -docbument is'not available in the cache to suit the combination iof the 4hd-usebirs device, viewing distance and publishenand- and usrpeeeneteformatting *nd rendering Units tire activated to provlide one; 3. Foniiattlngi uhifts These mjinmzo tthe neod frend users to scroll tho~ugh do".ments-bydhividifig them-ift smalier, rnorwma ridgeable sections.

These' reformatted documentg miay or may. not fit completely on the soneen, dependingor h"w fth cootent Nas been marked uptJ1d devke sizd lt 9 kages are being viewied on plus pqblisher and ed-ser priet ce. The refoiiauing process raresi dnd -rnovewrccjrltent to fft, -as Well -,2e1TffiooylhO V t arous blank Space redIuetlon:gnd insewtioh ftchnlques. These include condeniN text, Ord uclng tab stools agdjusffihg m=rgns 61c~. The bai1c leyoUt of the-6cumnt in .which this is done Is preetennined by a, renderin unit.

Rendering unit: By dxarhihing the dimenisions of the available viewing area, the rendering unit analyses and-iser and publisher preferences to COMS IDNo: ARCS-207579 Received by iP Australia: Time 22:19 Date 2008-09-25 SEP 2008 22:15 REDBANK MANOR PTY LTD 61397441788 Page 24 0 0 WS8 Pt OW S21 N' determine a suitable document layout and navigation system. Thia basic layout O-i is then used by the formatting unit to measure and manipulate content-- SInformation pertaining to end-user interactions, such as document navigation, is encrypted. This prevents unauthorized display units or external viewers from improperly accessing content Documents may also be password Sprotected to prevent opening by unauthorized display units or viewers.

0, Using the current embodiment of the invention, the presentation o subsystem may be used in a commercial publishing environment in the following manner; 00 1. Presentation subsystems are loaded on Application Service SProvider machines; 2. Publishers allow their content to be connected to Application Service Providers running the Presentation Subsystems; 3. Stakeholder subsystems provide information to the interface subsystems, allowing links to the presentation subsystems to be published in Web pages or other browser display protocols such as WAP; 4. An end-user requests to see a document by clicking on a link; The interface subsystems forward locational information to the management subsystems; S 20 6. A logon session is created (such as via a secure Web page or remote display protocols) to find out who the user is in relation to the publisher, which if successful, causes the management subsystem to create a unique session number for that user's session with the presentation subsystem; 7. The logon session forwards locational Information to the Management subsystem; 8. The display unit forwards locational information to the Management subsystems; 9. The display unit finds the document In the Cache unit; The caching unit may attempt to obtain the document from another's Presentation subsystem's cache t COMS ID No: ARCS-207579 Received by IP Australia: Time 22:19 Date 2008-09-25 SEP 2008 22:15 REDBANK MANOR PTY LTD 61397441788 Page 0 0 WfO u l/"57 P A QWl S11. If the document is not in or found by the cache, the display unit L obtains the document's location from the Management sub-system, allowing It

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to draw on the publisher's master document repository. If the Management it Subsystem is not aware of the document's location, the display unit forwards a request to the management subsystem to issue a new document ID to the document, which in most cases becomes its filename and path; the location of tI this newly named document is then sent back to the Presentation Subsystem; S12. Once the desired document's filename has been established, the 0 management subsystem evaluates the request, authorizing it according to the 0 0 10 business models associated with the document; O 13. Once authorized by the management subsystem, the display unit seeks a document from the cache corresponding or suitably sized to the display area, user and publisher preferences, If one can be found (the majority of cases), it is loaded and displayed for irage transmission, if not, the rendering unit is engaged to determine an appropriate layout and navigation system and the reformatting unit then handles the content accordingly; 14. The caching unit may attempt to obtain a suitabie document from another's Presentation subsystem's cache, rather than initiate fresh reformatting.

15. After being loaded from the cache, the document image is displayed via remote display protocols; 18. The display unit accepts navigation commands from the user; 17. The display unit monitors end-user activity in relation to time or session charges as controlled by the management subsystem; 18. The display unit monitors 'revenue content' such as advertising, informing the management subsystem of its exposure; 19. The display unit also provides account management tools and activity reports to end users; The display unit also provides end-users integrated searching between sites, documents and the content within a document; COMS ID No: ARCS-207579 Received by IP Australia: Time 22:19 Date 2008-09-25 SEP 2008 22:15 REDBANK MANOR PTY LTD 61397441788 Page 26 00 O PGP/USW6 023 0 21. The display unit also provides histories of previously seen Ce documents, favorites and 'to-do' lists of must-see documents; CjC 22. The display unit also embodies the functions of the interface subsystems, allowing further content to be viewed without leaving the remote display protocol environment.

O 23. From time to time, the caching unit may delete from itseif Infrequently used documents. Conversely, it may be pre-loaded with previously Sformatted documents in anticipation of heavy use. This may be implemented 0 under Management system control according to the business models 00 0 10 associated with a document CN The above scenario would not contain as many steps if the invention is used to display documents on an end-user's machine to their ell phone over the Internet. Organisations running the publishing system imnhouse may also require fewer steps. Depending upon the implementation, the order of steps may also vary. However in all cases, the unique four-stage architecture of the presentation subsystems remain the same.

It wil be appreclated that the presentation subsystem, and in particular the display unit, is not limited to on-screen display. For example, content may be sent directly to a commercial printerfor f oe-tinie hard copy printing, to a sound studio for one-time listening, or to a cinema for viewing. In all cases, a 'screen' also may be understood as the display area in which a document Is to be imaged, such as within a box on a Web page.

Cache, rendering, reformatting and display units may be distributed across one or more machines for load balancing and performance optimization.

Stakeholder subsystems The stakeholder subsystems provide management functions for authors, publishers, advertisers advertising executives, editors, developers, the invention's operators or any other party with an interest in content They comprise: a set of workflow applications. linked to d cument and information repositories. These are linked via virtual private networks and an XML messaging unit to the invention's other subsystems. In the preferred COMS ID No: ARCS-207579 Received by IP Australia: Time 22:19 Date 2008-09-25 SEP 2008 22:15 REDBANK MANOR PTY LTD 61397441788 Page 27 embodiment of this invention these refreltorles are comprised otf ile system hierarchies, although they well could be other 0tores such as relationiall databases.

The stakeholder workfiow applications comprise of: 1. Stakeholder information captures: These associate Information such as I fte, Author, Summary and Business Model Indicaltors to documents.

*By noting these Indicators, the maniagemnent subsysem isable. to. determine the way a document should be treated, by conisulting the business models to which the indicators refer.

00 2. Advertising information captures. These allow advertising CI executives -and creative staff to associate objects embedded, within documents to an advertising. model.I An example of an advertising model could beto display a get of advertisements in rando .r ordef as a page Is aoessed-or change the advertisements If a user revisits -a page. with the appropriate tees for eacti Wye of exposure.

3. Business modeling: These applications Create a marketing structure around a voictlon of documentslhrough associtiont with busiesis modeis, A business, model will typcaly eontai pricing informnation to which documents~ refer ia theitr indicators, as -we1l as revenue and expense splitting ratios between stalceholderCM A special kind of business model is an advertising model, embodying'the terms and conditions of embedded content for automated billing and display.

4. Content markup and staginlg:- These applications are used to govern the release of documents and. information from. the Stakehol1der's master document and model repositories to the presetation, interface and management subsystemns. This allows publithers to performn functions such as s6tting'opening dates' on new paMl of their site, managing t document update process or rolling back their sites to peiuvrsosfdcments.

6. Other information captures and functions: A number of othier lunctions complete the stakeholdar appulcafion -uita. This incudasreporirig tools atllowing all the stakeholders to review the prgrs o 1terItretiie and documents.

COMS ID No: ARCS-207579 Received by IP Australia: Time 22:19 Date 2008-09-25 SEP 2008 22:16 REDBANK MANOR PTY LTD 61397441788 Page 28 00 A14C4 C!U2f1 Another major component of stakeholder subsystems are the advertising and business model repositories. These hierarchies of XML documents are Waefrred to by indicators attache to -documnents. One document may be thus assoiated with many business models, When t his happenis, by default, the system will determine the cheapest option for the end-user or advertiser or offer them a choice of uixler which set of terms and. conditions the docoment Is to be made Available- Stakeholder mastew d~cummnt r epositolies ame -file or docment mangemnt ystmswhere documents are st~dadreleased to presentation subsystems via virtual private rietwois They alaci Idr to staging area for fture document releaset plus an archive of past releases which' have been withdrawn from circulaion.

An XMVL messaging unit is provided to facilitate information tran sfers between stakeholder subsystems and the othe subsystems.

The preferred ernbodiment of these subsystems could bo used in the following scenario: A publisher nominates an. application service provider or seets to wun a stakeholder application suite on their own systeMs; 2. The puiblisher registers the stakeholders to be recogr~ized by the.

site; 3. Autorsuse the stAkeholder application suite to stake their caimn on a docurtent via documenit indicatoms, 4. A pubttsher submits the document to tbe'systEim, in so doing acku"Owledging te claims male'by the author indicatora; 5. Business model inicators ame associated, recoizing the role of adveftsers, editors, advertising executives, developers and others; A. At anly stage, documents may bep marked up for manual optimization for Imoge c0lapla using reoedslay protocos. For example, it mright be neceissiry. to stop 1me_.w resIzIng where a picture's detail must be I .30 diiplayed, such as with a map; COMS ID No: ARCS-207579 Received by IP Australia: Time 22:19 Date 2008-09-25 SEP 2008 22:16 REDBANK MANOR PTY LTD 61397441788 Page 29 00 W4Wsome

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S26 0 7. At any stage, documents and their organisation within the Srepository may be marked up to control the timing of their release; 8. Ddcument information is retrieved from the various repositories via XML Messaging units by the management subsystems; 9. Application service providers running interface subsystems also O access repositories to display information in Web, WAP or pages described by other protocols or formats, for end-users not currently being handled by the presentation subsystems; As requested by the user and allowed by the management subsystem, copies of documents are released from the stakeholders master C' document repository to various presentation subsystems; 11. Reports are provided to stakeholder applications from the invention's other subsystems, for realtime management of documents, sites and stakeholder relationships; 12. All of the above functions are also designed to maintain their currency on an ongoing basis. For example, a document's author revenue shares may change over time as a document is updated by different people.

The stakeholder subsystem is designed to support rich collaboration between all the participants. Therefore stakehdoder subsystems may be distributed across a large number of locations, white the management subsystems are designed to be centralized over a small number of locations.

However there may also be a market for management subsystems to be deployed for private in-house use for secure publishing operations within organisations, such as armed forces.

Payments subsystem The Payments subsystem is the gateway by which transactions between financial institutions such as credit card companies or banks are conducted.

Transactions with non-finaicial Institutions which non-the-less manage funds, such as telecommunications carrier or utility companies, are also supported.

COMS ID No: ARCS-207579 Received by IP Australia: Time 22:19 Date 2008-09-25 SEP 2008 22:16 REDBANK MANOR PTY LTD 61397441788 Page 00 A 27 LC- The Payments subsystem, working under the authorization of the Management subsystem, enables both deposits and withdrawals from accounts operated by all those associated with the use and operation of the system, This V) facilitates both content end-user payments and refunds plus monetary transfers to and from stakeholders, including authors and advertisers. It communicates to the Management subsystem the success, failure and nature of payments, it is V) also used for the updating of account balances, risk analysis and other purposes.

SThe Payments subsystem also has human interfaces for manual 00 10 transaction entry, such as for cash or Checks.

interface subsystem The job of the Interface subsystem is to enable interaction between the system's secure publishing environment d other publishing systems.

This is ofien necessary because publiishng doCument images using remote display protocols is orders of magnitude more expensive to set up and run than traditional online publishing systems. This is because the entire enduser experience must be supported by the publishing system rather than simply sending off a few files for a browser to interpret and render. This means information which cannot be sold, such as a catalogue of documents for sale, will most likey be presented using cheaper Web-based protocols such as HTML and Java-Script.

Another scenario Is where the publisher chooses to accept the risk of allowing readers to download encrypted content for offtine use (such as large tables or diagrams), by employing an alternative publishing system. In this case the management subsystem may need to inform such document download software of details concering .both the dbcument and the reader.

To support business models such as these, an interface :ubsystem is required to suipply infolatron stored in the management subsystem to other publishing systems. unctions of the nteface Subsyste are a also included in the Presentation subsystem, allowing document browsing, searching and pricing. infonation to be accessed from within the system. Once a user is COMS ID No: ARCS-207579 Received by IP Australia: Time 22:19 Date 2008-09-25 SEP 2008 22:16 REDBANK MANOR PTY LTD 61397441788 Page 31 00 Woe' O0Of f i O 28 0 interacting with the Presentation subsystem there is no need to leave it to make L another purchase. This gonvenience aside, the ability to access the Interface subsystem from within the Invention allows catalogs of contentfor sale to be ln-displayed on devices which cannot easily render Web pages, such as smallscreen mobile deviops.

o The operation of the Interface subsystem therefore depends on the kind I' of publishing system requiring managemenrt system support. An-end user may Swish to access a conventional web page of a publisher to browse a catalog of 0 content available through the invention. In this case, the Interface subsystem 00 10 will provide the publisher's Web server with such infrmation a a ful Shierarchical or list view of the content available on a site, or a search result subset of this. Picing, conditions, summary and other information may also be supplied, according to stakeholder business models.

In oider to appy business models to obtain the correct price for a particular end user, the Interface subsystem may also ask for or accept an enduser togin. If no rid-user 1bgl is supplied, ~noi;nous u6r prices and .conditions or n6 prices and conditions wil be supplied, depending on the busln6ss model(s) ;aisocidted with the document Information shared between Stakeholder, Management and Interface subsystems Is likely to be repetitious. In order to minimize the use of network resources and speed response times, a caching mechanism for these common signals may be employed.

The IntefaE subsystem has the capability to generate Web pages for transmission by a Web server. Aternatively, publishers. can design their own Web pages that programmatically inert the desired information drawn from the Interface subsystem. Another method is to insert an applet into a Web page or use stand-alone prorams, which communicate ihthe interface subsystem in real-time, enabling a more dynamic display of its information.

To support more complex interactions, such as the issuing of instructions to another publishing system to send or allow oontet to be downloaded; a driver architecture Is employed to suit the interfaces provided.by the alternate publishing systerm COMS ID No: ARCS-207579 Received by IP Australia: Time 22:19 Date 2008-09-25 SEP 2008 22:17 REDBANK MANOR PTY LTD 61397441788 Page 32 00ff o 39 A preferred embodiment is to have at least one interface subsystem on Cl each alternate publishing system, connected to the management system via a virtual private network. The preferred embodiment for the Interface subsystem implicit to the Presentation subsystem is to implement one per user session.

Ci The Interface subsystem is also capable of obtaining locational O information from end-users, in order to restrict the content catalog in legal In jurisdictions which may be offended by the material. Acquired locational Sinformation may also be used to determine content offerings pertinent to the 0 end-user's locale. Information on the end-user's whereabouts may be supplied 0 0 10 to the Interface subsystem from a mobile device, Internet/Applcation service S provider, telecommunications carrier or other hardware, software or other location-knowing entity. End-user location details may also be approximated using information supplied by the networks through which end users are connected.

A particular embodiment of an Interface subsystem may support different levels ofthe functionality described. For example, in a mobile device such as a cell phone, a connection from the Management system to a carrier's own billing system may imply a logon, by virtue of possession of the phone connected to the network. In this case, the Interface subsystem provided to the carrier's WAP gateway would not necessarly need to provide a separate login function. On the other hand; for privacy or security reasons, some locationai functions may be omitted in Interface subsystems deployed in somb places or disabled when the system is accessed by 'location sensitive' persons.

SECURITY

The division of the invention into various subsystems lends itself to the creation of.security zones, safeguarding the privacy and integrity of information stored by the system. The preferred embodiment operates within ibut is not limited to) six general security zones: 1. End users interacting using Web pages through the Interface Subsystem are considered to be in the un-tnrujed intemet zone.

COMS ID No: ARCS-207579 Received by IP Australia: Time 22:19 Date 2008-09-25 SEP 2008 22:17 REDBANK MANOR PTY LTD 61397441788 Page 33 00 W4Pew160 0 2. End use'rs-accessing. live. content images using the Presetation subsystem locate at an Applicglion senkwe provider are -considered to be C) in the end-userzpne. They typcally acceass the invenoion thirough.a, remote display protool or oilier login using a guest ac count throuh tightly Controlled TCPi1P ports.

3. The publisher-zone ig where interprete document rmos. screnpd for IC)sus picious looing or possibl dan~erous system Cab*s MRy exflcute.

Authorised, embedlded or linked applications, inclding embedded remote 0 display protcol sessions, also fall within this zone.

00 4: The Asp (Appication Service Provider) zone) is where' the Presertasion -and Mface sobsystems typically run. Thia ib a'earnl-Atrnted environmient, where inrainand instructions are con1Veed to and front the maniaoedn~system through encrypted-fildtransur. VIA, virtual private networks Operating through tightly controlm TCP/IP ports.

T"e Md on s hmngement zon, *heret od are kept and mainfteance functions are pettormeci.

6.The adiitav oeI o h neto' operators, allowing them access t:6cuistomer accunt and reporting information.

Pecauae the bulk -of the frnonorscmmhctnsadtoaefle "aeace~boowenzones ma be enforced- using -standard operatig sywtem scuit inchmNisms. Moniting the information flows themselves for legitimate use enhanes the zone-based access Qontrols.

To prevent the management system from being bypassed, business logic Concerning the eligibility to view documents is typically compiled into the t b~usinps loi 5 Q exeoving, fiancia transactoi i;so prfrbylcated on Managemnt sub~ytmsqvr. r ~c the systemn opros firewaq$I.

Storoge takes place onl athird tir of Manageme!nt subsy teniservers, used Pxcloimly for fileservlea. Thus Presentaticin subsysems located on serA-* providerra~nesnerer .have direc scces to the rncrypted files located in hierarchical data structures, which are given the strictest access euntrols. Al oorre-,poncince betweerrF storage repsze an sr o hi COMS 0 No: ARCS-207579 Received by IP Australia: Time 22:19 Date 2008-09-25 SEP 2008 22:17 REDBANK MANOR PTY LTD 61397441788 Page 34 O 33 00 0' information takes place using signals from duty authorised management and Sstakeholder processes, never directly from the Presentation subsystems.

C Signals between all subsystems are conducted using encrypted files.

This communication typically takes place over virtual private networks which themselves are encrypted.

0* The invention provides a system of modifying, distributing and 0 accounting for live document images, made suitable for transmission via remote OO .display protocols through automated reformatting of source documents, with 0 10 limited selection and copying of text or graphics for publisher copyright control.

Cl It enables higher value content to be sold online, plus enhances the end-user experience, making document images more readable when viewed in a live application (not downloaded like the Web's HTML) over slow networks.

Document production costs are also reduced with single-document publishing, utilizing reformatting engine(s) to handle the complexity of suitably resizing content for most devices. The system and method also secures documents for Se-commerce by only allowing their images to be viewed. The viewed documents are easily read over the Internet via remote display protocols and navigated by users from their PCs, servers, or various mobile devices.

Documents are made available to the invention for reformatting, to suit a combination of varying remote display protocol environments, screen sizes, viewing distances, plus end-user and publisher preferences. Copyright protection is achieved by only sending liv;e mages of these documents via remote display protocols, both modifying the original content for easy navigation on the display device white disabling its reproductive capabilities. Live image transmission only occurs after the management subsystem has authorized such end-user requests. The task of billing and tracking and reformatting documents for better remote display protocol transmission is split between two types of computing infrastructures: One serves the management subsystem and maintains unified control while the other widelydistributes the presentation subsystem for Image processing between machines, thus the invention can securely enable millions of simultaneous live document image users.

COMS ID No: ARCS-207579 Received by IP Australia: Time 22:19 Date 2008-09-25 SEP 2008 22:17 REDBANK MANOR PTY LTD 619478Pae3 61397441788 Page 00 32 The system is designed to thus sell refoirmatted document imageis, or subsoriptio!ns to th~em, from -single0 or multiple pu~blishers to single or multiple use(4, of to distribute documrent imwges free of charge to end-users v#Ah their refrMatting. distribution pnd tracking paid for by third parties. The system is also able to aultomaically spit revenues and expenses generated by the dicumnents, between -all of a document's relevant stakeholers (authors, editors, publishers, lSPs, etc) made known to the sytem.

Of greatest value to publisherrs.1s the systemn's sujnr for. cpyright p~~ro .tection (resitance to whoIsalo reproductio).Oyben sent telv 00 10 irt'iage of a d60 6m'ent, not the doumlent itself, means the receiver is prevented by the syswem from a bcijgthe te-xt* to copy unless the Management system allows it plus the user fdver gets the fermtPing tg, novigstlonal inks or source code requred to redlitribujte doduments IjtAct for Viewing on snother syste6. As with ppr all, the'user Cain acces is an image r the ftnl doturnent, nofd thei original eirtwork from which it was c.reated. Howmeverkiwkward and SdO6v *bl ti'endun-ips are posible, which is consdared fair Use of the matril. similr. In prlncple to photdoyng portions of paper-based doc6umnts.

Thesysem isply document on. small-screen devices withi high fielity, haiving reformiated thiem accordingly for a much improved user experlence. Having an image ma .ini .ain ed on a server and only displayed on user machiries also prvie publishers with tbtall font conrol Tey can even publis.h telive jrmago 'f a'pst within documents. Because they are live lInages Wlthlri a ive image, these appletli need no- downloading or insltaliation an rd ther'efore ar6 not subject to the unexpecte problem~s Java or 'Java-Script plt someti"scause.

Forpllfls the gp~mttn fitnofte rnt nsuytm avoids many of th e costs currentl as oiated with #0b developmnot. For example, opne 0ocw~ment can be dl.aplayed on .tysz4device, big niresmaBl, q wheea ofe"WbYoe hv to be completeoly redeigned. for this purpose..

By using remote dispay protocpls,- no local contenthandling* takes pla~e on~ end-user mchines, allowing the system to be usable wit many more device types than Just Web browsers, %uch as mlliorns of DOS PCs In third-world COMS ID No: ARCS-207579 Received by P1 Australia: Time 22:19 Date 2008-09-25 SEP 200B 22:17 REDBAM( MANOR PTY LTD 61397441788 Page 36 00 W ?1~1 33 countries or tens of millions of new mobile devices being told in more developed countries.

The system attaches business model Indicators to documents rather than priceists, the business model determines how a document Is charged for under different circumstances. The billing/tracking aspect of the management subsystem uses these business models, evaluating them against end-user In records and their current status, thus determining the appropriate price. In ts way publishers can implement a wvide range of marketing options for their content, Withoulit having to pay for a custom-built billing and tracking system- 0010 Finsily, in relation to the Internot's ramrpant credit card fraud, the system reduCes t risks for publishers in three ways, better supporting the added expense of document image publishing. Firstly, the biing/tAoking aspect of the management subsystem has the capacity to distinguih 'cleared funds' from those wherea a dishonor fromn a bank or credt card compamny is stil possible, Publishers can therefore adjust their business models accordingly, perhaps offering bonuses for the better payments. The system Is also able to Identify users with good track records, informing publishers of low risk users from records generated from their prior use across all publishers- Without violating the end user's privacy, And the aggregation of transactions across multiple publishers can be leveraged to get a bettor deAl from financial institutions.

Th roughout the specification the aim has been to describe embodiments of the invention without limiting the- invention to ayspecific combination of alternate featturas.

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Claims (4)

1. A method of securing electronic content including the steps of: storing said electronic content in a repository; managing access to said electronic content; ci receiving a request from a user to view titles, and/or summaries, and/or other information opertaining to said electronic content; V offering said titles, and/or said summaries, and/or said other information pertaining to o content to the user for sale or secure distribution; Sretrieving said electronic content from said repository; 00 OO o rendering with suitable content navigation and content layout by Cl analysing end-user display characteristics including examining the dimensions of the available viewing area; and analysing any publisher preferences and/or end-user preferences to, together with said analysis of said display characteristics determine suitable content navigation and basic layout; formatting said electronic content for caching and display into manageable sections using said basic layout predetermined by said rendering; and presenting navigation and reformatted electronic content to said user via remote display.

2. The method of claim 1 whereby the said presentation of navigation and reformatted electronic content allows users to navigate and search within a document and over the publisher's document image site or over multiple sites.

3. The method of claim 1 or 2 whereby the said navigation also provides end-users integrated searching between sites, documents and the content within a document.

4. The method of any of claims 1, 2, or 3 whereby the said offering pertaining to content allows the browsing of a catalogue of content as a full hierarchical or list view of the content available on a site, or a search result subset of this. The method of any of claims 1, 2, or 3 whereby a Web server is provided with information of the said offering pertaining to content including a full hierarchical or list view of the content available on a site, or a search result subset of this. COMS ID No: ARCS-207579 Received by IP Australia: Time 22:19 Date 2008-09-25