SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RENDERING CONTENT ASSOCIATED WITH A DIGITAL WORK

• US 20100106658A1
• Filed: 12/31/2009
• Published: 04/29/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/23/1994
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ContentGuard Holdings, Inc. (Pendrell Corporation)
• Original Assignee: ContentGuard Holdings, Inc. (Pendrell Corporation)
• Inventors: STEFIK, Mark J., Pirolli, Peter L.T.
• Application Number:
  US12/650,926
• Publication Number:
  US 20100106658A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/310
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Abstract

A method, system and software for permitting use of digital works having rights associated therewith in a system having repositories configured to enable use of the digital work in accordance with the rights, including associating a transfer right with a digital work, the transfer right specifying that the digital work is transferred from a first repository to a second repository; transferring the digital work from the first repository to the second repository in accordance with the transfer right; and in response to the transferring, step updating transfer right information in respect of the digital work.

Claims

1. A rendering system for rendering content associated with a digital work, the digital work comprising a content file and a description file, the content file comprising the content to be rendered, the description file comprising a descriptor for the digital work and usage rights that define how the content can be used, the rendering system being operative to be coupled to an external repository to receive the content and the usage rights, the rendering system comprising:

a rendering device operative to use the content;

a storage component operative to store the content and the usage rights; and

a rendering repository operative to control use of the content by the rendering device in accordance with the usage rights, the rendering repository comprising a processing component that has a requester operation mode and a server operation mode,

wherein the processing component of the rendering repository in the requester operation mode requests access to the digital work stored in the external repository and receives the content and the usage rights from the external repository, and

wherein the processing component of the rendering repository in the server operation mode receives a request to use the content, determines if the requested use is allowed by the usage rights, and, if the requested use is allowed by the usage rights, allows the rendering device to use the content.

2. A rendering system as recited in claim 1, wherein the rendering device is configured to render the content into a desired form.

3. A rendering system as recited in claim 1, wherein the storage component is further operative to store the content after rendering.

4. A rendering system as recited in claim 1, wherein the storage component is further operative to store ephemeral copies of the content.

5. A rendering system as recited in claim 1, wherein the rendering repository comprises removable media.

6. A rendering system as recited in claim 1, wherein the storage component comprises removable media.

7. A rendering system as recited in claim 1, wherein the rendering device comprises at least one of a printer, a video system, an audio system, or a computer system in which the repository comprises software executed on the computer system.

8. A rendering system as recited in claim 1, wherein the rendering device and the rendering repository are integrated into a secure system having a secure boundary.

9. A rendering system as recited in claim 1, wherein the digital work has plural components having usage rights associated therewith and wherein the rendering repository enforces the usage rights for each component.

10. A rendering system as recited in claim 1, wherein the usage rights include at least one condition that must be satisfied to exercise the use of the digital work, and wherein the system further comprises a communications component operative to communicate with an authorization repository for authorizing a condition.

11. A rendering system as recited in claim 9, wherein the condition is possession of a digital ticket.

12. A method for rendering content associated with a digital work, the digital work comprising a content file and a description file, the content file comprising the content to be rendered, the description file comprising a descriptor for the digital work and usage rights that define how the content can be used, the method comprising:

receiving, at a rendering repository, a request to use the content from a rendering device;

requesting access to the digital work, the digital work being stored in an external repository;

receiving the content and the usage rights from the external repository;

storing the content and the usage rights in a storage component;

determining if the requested use is allowed by the usage rights; and

if the requested use is allowed by the usage rights, allowing use of the content by the rendering device.

13. A method as recited in claim 12, wherein the rendering device is configured to render the content into a desired form.

14. A method as recited in claim 12, wherein the storage component is further operative to store the content after rendering.

15. A method as recited in claim 12, wherein the storage component is further operative to store ephemeral copies of the content.

16. A method as recited in claim 12, wherein the rendering repository comprises removable media.

17. A method as recited in claim 12, wherein the storage component comprises removable media.

18. A method as recited in claim 12, wherein the rendering device comprises at least one of a printer, a video system, an audio system, or a computer system in which the repository comprises software executed on the computer system.

19. A method as recited in claim 12, wherein the rendering device and the rendering repository are integrated into a secure system having a secure boundary.

20. A method as recited in claim 12, wherein the digital work has plural components having usage rights associated therewith and wherein the rendering repository enforces the usage rights for each component.

21. A method as recited in claim 12, wherein the usage rights include at least one condition that must be satisfied to exercise the use of the digital work, and wherein the method further comprises communication with an authorization repository to authorize a condition.

22. A method as recited in claim 21, wherein the condition is possession of a digital ticket.