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Metering accessing of content and the like in a content protection system or the like

  • US 20060010076A1
  • Filed: 04/23/2004
  • Published: 01/12/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of reporting out accumulated metered data from a client to a metering service, each piece of metered data being indexed within a metering database of the client according to a metering ID (MID) and being sub-indexed within the metering database according to a content-associated ID (KID), the method comprising the client:

  • selecting a particular MID;

    selecting at least a portion of the metered data in the metering database having the selected MID, the selected metered data being organized according to KID;

    constructing a challenge based on the selected metered data;

    sending the constructed challenge to the metering service, whereby the metering service obtains the metered data from the challenge, stores same, and constructs a response to be returned to the client based on the challenge;

    receiving the response from the metering service including a list of KIDs of the selected metered data in the challenge;

    confirming that the response corresponds to the challenge; and

    processing the list of KIDs in the response by, for each KID in the list, deleting the metered data from the metering database having the selected MID and the KID.

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