Apparatus and method for transferring content rights by multimedia message in a mobile communication system
First Claim
1. A mobile communication system for transferring content rights, the system comprising:
- a digital rights management (DRM) server for transmitting a right object (RO) associated with contents to a receiving mobile station (MS), upon a request of the receiving mobile station;
a transmitting mobile station for, upon generation of an event triggering an right object transfer, generating the right object for outgoing content rights to be transferred and a storage right object for remaining content rights, storing the storage right object, and transmitting a message including the right object to the receiving mobile station; and
the receiving mobile station for receiving the right object by the message from the transmitting mobile station and storing the right object.
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for transferring content rights by a multimedia message in a mobile communication system are provided, in which a DRM server transmits a right object associated with contents to an MS, upon request of the MS, a transmitting MS generates, upon generation of an event triggering a right object transfer, the right object with content rights to be transferred and a storage right object with remaining content rights, stores the storage right object, and transmits a message including the right object to a receiving MS, and the receiving MS receives the right object by the message from the transmitting MS and stores the right object.
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27 Claims
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1. A mobile communication system for transferring content rights, the system comprising:
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a digital rights management (DRM) server for transmitting a right object (RO) associated with contents to a receiving mobile station (MS), upon a request of the receiving mobile station; a transmitting mobile station for, upon generation of an event triggering an right object transfer, generating the right object for outgoing content rights to be transferred and a storage right object for remaining content rights, storing the storage right object, and transmitting a message including the right object to the receiving mobile station; and the receiving mobile station for receiving the right object by the message from the transmitting mobile station and storing the right object. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A mobile station (MS) for transferring content rights, the mobile station comprising:
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a memory for storing Right Objects (ROs); a transmitter and receiver for transmitting and receiving a message including a right object; a right object manager for, upon generation of an event triggering a right object transfer, generating the right object for outgoing content rights to be transferred and a storage right object for remaining content rights, and controlling updating the right object with the storage right object in the memory; and a message processor for generating a message including the right object and controlling the message to be transmitted. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A method for transferring content rights in mobile station (MS), the method comprising:
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receiving content rights to be transferred and checking a count of the content rights, upon generation of an event triggering a right object (RO) transfer; generating a right object for outgoing content rights to be transferred; generating a storage right object for remaining content rights and storing the storage right object to update the right object; generating a message including the right object; and transmitting the message. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A Computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for transferring content rights in mobile station (MS), comprising;
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a first code segment for receiving content rights to be transferred and checking a count of the content rights, upon generation of an event triggering a right object (RO) transfer; a second code segment for generating a right object for outgoing content rights to be transferred; a third code segment for generating a storage right object for remaining content rights and storing the storage right object to update the right object; a fourth code segment for generating a message including the right object; and a fifth code segment for transmitting the message.
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