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Digital rights management and data license management

  • US 20080228578A1
  • Filed: 01/24/2008
  • Published: 09/18/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2007
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method for managing distribution and usage of digital content over a network;

  • comprising;

    receiving uploaded new content from content owners to a central real-time exchange of a system;

    defining at least one of digital rights management and an authorized medium for distribution of the uploaded digital content;

    entering and storing search queries from content buyers in a database of the central real-time exchange;

    continuously monitoring, at the central real-time exchange, the uploaded content to determine whether to offer license terms from content owners to content buyers;

    comparing, at the central real-time exchange, the uploaded content to a predetermined list of queries entered by the content buyers to locate content in the uploaded data that matches queries entered by the content buyers;

    continuing to monitor, at the central real-time exchange, the uploaded content to determine whether to offer license terms from the content owners to the content buyers if no matched queries are obtained;

    providing a digital rights management license associated with the uploaded content to a content buyer in accordance with the license terms offered from the content owners if a matching query is obtained;

    continually monitoring, at the central real-time exchange, the digital rights management license provided to the content buyer and collecting associated fees;

    sending the matching content, the defined digital rights management and the defined authorized medium to the content buyer for distribution of the uploaded digital content; and

    monitoring, at the central real-time exchange, the network to ensure digital rights management compliance in accordance with the license agreement.

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