Digital rights management

• US 20040059929A1
• Filed: 09/09/2003
• Published: 03/25/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Byteweavr, LLC (Ascend Innovation Management, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Phocis Limited
• Inventors: Barlow, Andrew, Rodgers, Alastair, Robbins, Neill
• Granted Patent: US 7,210,039 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/193
• 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: G06F 2221/2107 File encryption
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2137 Time limited access, e.g. to a computer or data

Abstract

The present invention relates to digital rights management and more particularly to a system and method for securely publishing and controlling the usage of digital content. Advantageously a publisher or owner of digital content or of a copyrights work can distribute securely that work in a secure digital form.

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