Digital rights management and data license management
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1. A method for managing distribution and usage of digital content over a network;
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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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Abstract
A system and method for the exchanging, distributing and managing digital content, along with providing users with the ability to sell and transfer digital rights of products or services purchased from other users, wherein the system and method are used to manage synchronization and the use of applications, web services and media in combination with different digital rights management (DRM) solutions to authenticate and authorize such transactions.
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1. A method for managing distribution and usage of digital content over a network;
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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. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A system for managing distribution and usage of digital content over a network;
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a search engine configured to correlate owners of digital rights management related to the digital content; and a central real-time exchange operatively interfaced with the search engine, said central real-time exchange including a database and a plurality of modules for at least one of indicating pricing, searching, title indexing, digital contract management, fingerprinting and watermarking digital content that is uploaded to the database. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22)
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- 19. The system of claim 19, wherein the codes comprise at least one of watermarks, special tags or ID'"'"'s, scanning of files, audio sampling and character recognition.
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