Distributed digital rights network (drn), and methods to access operate and implement the same
First Claim
1. A digital rights network including:
- a digital rights server to store content consumer rights, defining access rights of a content consumer with respect to content, and content owner rights defining access policies to the content as established by a content owner; and
a digital rights agent to perform cryptographic operations with respect to access operations relating to the content consumer rights and the content owner rights, wherein the access operations include a first access operation with respect to the content consumer rights and a second access operation with respect to the content owner rights.
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Abstract
A digital rights network (10) includes a digital rights server (36) to store content consumer rights, defining access right of a content consumer with respect to content, and content owner rights defining access policies to the content as established by a content owner. A digital rights agent (28) is to perform cryptographic operations with respect to access operations relating to the content consumer rights and the content owner rights. The access operations include a first access operation with respect to the content consumer rights and a second access operation with respect to the content owner rights. The access operations relating to the content consumer rights and the content owner rights may be performed by anyone of a plurality of users of the digital rights network such as the content owner, a commerce service provider (42), a content distributor (20) and the content consumer. The commerce service provider (42) may be a customer relationship management operator.
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48 Claims
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1. A digital rights network including:
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a digital rights server to store content consumer rights, defining access rights of a content consumer with respect to content, and content owner rights defining access policies to the content as established by a content owner; and
a digital rights agent to perform cryptographic operations with respect to access operations relating to the content consumer rights and the content owner rights, wherein the access operations include a first access operation with respect to the content consumer rights and a second access operation with respect to the content owner rights. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A method of operating a digital rights network, the method including:
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storing content consumer rights, defining access rights of a content consumer with respect to content, and content owner rights defining access policies to the content as established by a content owner at the digital rights server; and
performing cryptographic operations, utilizing a digital rights agent, with respect to access operations relating to the content consumer rights and the content owner rights, wherein the access operations include a first access operation with respect to the content consumer rights and a second access operation with respect to the content owner rights. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46)
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47. A digital rights network including:
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first means for storing content consumer rights, defining access rights of a content consumer with respect to content, and content owner rights defining access policies to the content as established by a content owner; and
second means for performing cryptographic operations with respect to access operations relating to the content consumer rights and the content owner rights, wherein the access operations include a first access operation with respect to the content consumer rights and a second access operation with respect to the content owner rights
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48. A machine-readable medium storing a sequence of instructions that, when executed by a machine, cause machine to perform a method of operating a digital rights network, the method including:
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storing content consumer rights, defining access rights of a content consumer with respect to content, and content owner rights defining access policies to the content as established by a content owner at the digital rights server; and
performing cryptographic operations, utilizing a digital rights agent, with respect to access operations relating to the content consumer rights and the content owner rights, wherein the access operations include a first access operation with respect to the content consumer rights and a second access operation with respect to the content owner rights.
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