Systems and Methods for Matching, Selecting, Narrowcasting, and/or Classifying Based on Rights Management and/or Other Information
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Abstract
Rights management information is used at least in part in a matching, narrowcasting, classifying and/or selecting process. A matching and classification utility system comprising a kind of Commerce Utility System is used to perform the matching, narrowcasting, classifying and/or selecting. The matching and classification utility system may match, narrowcast, classify and/or select people and/or things, non-limiting examples of which include software objects. The Matching and Classification Utility system may use any pre-existing classification schemes, including at least some rights management information and/or other qualitative and/or parameter data indicating and/or defining classes, classification systems, class hierarchies, category schemes, class assignments, category assignments, and/or class membership. The Matching and Classification Utility may also use at least some rights management information together with any artificial intelligence, expert system, statistical, computational, manual, or any other means to define new classes, class hierarchies, classification systems, category schemes, and/or assign persons, things, and/or groups of persons and/or things to at least one class.
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5. A method comprising:
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receiving an instruction set at a first electronic appliance, the instruction set including information for determining at least one class of content applicable to a user of the first electronic appliance;
processing the instruction set in a protected processing environment at the first electronic appliance, the protected processing environment being configured to resist tampering by a user of the first electronic appliance;
sending a request to a remote electronic appliance, the request including information indicating at least one desired class of content; and
securely receiving one or more content objects or references to one or more content objects from the remote electronic appliance, the one or more content objects being members of the desired class of content. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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