Digital-rights management system
First Claim
1. A method for equipment to execute digital content, the method comprising the steps of:
- determining if an identification attribute existing within the equipment matches an identification attribute existing within a Digital Rights Management (DRM) certificate;
decrypting an encrypted encryption key to obtain a decrypted encryption key;
decrypting the digital content with the encryption key; and
executing the digital content.
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Abstract
Devices (101) are assigned a unique, unalterable, identification or serial number (313) that acts as the devices “electronic” biometric. Any certificate (302) created by a key issuer will contain the device'"'"'s assigned DRM public key and the device'"'"'s electronic biometric data. When a consumer wishes to purchase new content (304) from a content provider (103), the consumer will send the DRM certificate containing its DRM public key and the biometric. The rights issuer will then create a license (306) that assigns the content in such a way that only a device with the particular biometric and DRM private key is allowed to render the content.
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13 Claims
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1. A method for equipment to execute digital content, the method comprising the steps of:
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determining if an identification attribute existing within the equipment matches an identification attribute existing within a Digital Rights Management (DRM) certificate;
decrypting an encrypted encryption key to obtain a decrypted encryption key;
decrypting the digital content with the encryption key; and
executing the digital content. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. A method for issuing digital content, the method comprising the steps of:
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receiving a request to provide digital content to user equipment;
receiving a DRM certificate along with the request, the DRM certificate comprising an identification attribute that identifies equipment that is to receive the digital content;
determining capabilities of the equipment based on the identification attribute;
encrypting the digital content with a content encryption key;
encrypting the content encryption key;
transferring the encrypted digital content and the encrypted content encryption key to the user equipment. - View Dependent Claims (5)
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6. A method for provisioning a digital-rights management (DRM) certificate and DRM private key to user equipment, the method comprising the steps of:
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receiving a unit certificate from the user equipment, the unit certificate comprising an identification attribute existing within the user equipment and a unit public key;
creating the DRM certificate, the DRM certificate comprising the identification attribute and a DRM public key;
creating a DRM private key; and
transmitting the DRM certificate and the DRM private key to the user equipment. - View Dependent Claims (7)
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8. An apparatus comprising:
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a unique, unalterable identification attribute (313);
encrypted digital content (304);
an encrypted content encryption key (306);
a DRM private key (306);
a DRM certificate (302); and
logic circuitry (309), wherein the logic circuitry analyzes the identification attribute to determine if the identification attribute matches the identification attribute contained within the DRM certificate (302) and if so, utilizes the DRM private key (306) to decrypt the encrypted content encryption key, and utilizing the content encryption key to decrypt the digital content. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11)
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12. A digital-rights management (DRM) system, the DRM system comprising:
first user equipment belonging to a group of users, the first user equipment comprising;
a unique, unalterable identification attribute (313);
encrypted digital content (304) that is shared among the group of users;
an encrypted content encryption key (306) that is shared among the group of users;
a DRM private key (306) that is shared among the group of users;
a DRM certificate (302); and
logic circuitry (309), wherein the logic circuitry analyzes the identification attribute to determine if the identification attribute matches the identification attribute contained within the DRM certificate (302) and if so, utilizes the DRM private key (306) to decrypt the encrypted content encryption key, and utilizing the content encryption key to decrypt the digital content. - View Dependent Claims (13)
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