METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUBSCRIPTION DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT

• US 20150033359A1
• Filed: 10/14/2014
• Published: 01/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ContentGuard Holdings, Inc. (Pendrell Corporation)
• Original Assignee: ContentGuard Holdings, Inc. (Pendrell Corporation)
• Inventors: Lao, Guillermo, Thanh, Ta
• Application Number:
  US14/514,329
• Publication Number:
  US 20150033359A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/10 Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16 ; Digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/105 Arrangements for software license management or administration, e.g. for managing licenses at corporate level
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/62 Protecting access to data via a platform, e.g. using keys or access control rules
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6209 to a single file or object, e.g. in a secure envelope, encrypted and accessed using a key, or with access control rules appended to the object itself
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2141 Access rights, e.g. capability lists, access control lists, access tables, access matrices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2153 Using hardware token as a secondary aspect
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00086 Circuits for prevention of unauthorised reproduction or copying, e.g. piracy indicating unauthorised use of record carriers in general G11B23/28; scrambling for television signal recording H04N5/913; network architectures or network protocols for network security H04L63/00; cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for secret or secure communication H04L9/00
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/0021 involving encryption or decryption of contents recorded on or reproduced from a record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/0071 involving a purchase action
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2463/102 applying security measure for e-commerce data processing systems or methods, specially adapted for e-commerce G06Q30/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/60 Network streaming of media packets
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416

Abstract

A system and method for managing use of items having usage rights associated therewith. The system includes an activation device adapted to issue a software package having a public and private key pair, the public key being associated with a user, a license device adapted to issue a license, a usage device adapted to receive the software package, receive the license and allow the user to access the item in accordance with the license, and a subscription managing device adapted to maintain a subscription list including the public key associated with the user. License'"'"'s is issued by the license device upon verifying presence of the public key in the subscription list corresponding to requested content.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method executed by one or more computing devices associated with a subscriber for creating a digital work that is made available to a subscriber computing device through a subscription, the subscriber computing device being associated with the subscriber of the subscription, the method comprising:

before an instance of the content is available to the subscriber computing device through the subscription, receiving, by at least one of the one or more computing devices associated with the subscriber, a label associated with at least one usage right;

requesting, by at least one of the one or more computing devices associated with the subscriber, access to the instance of the content;

transmitting, by at least one of the one or more computing devices associated with the subscriber, information related to the environment of a computing device associated with the subscriber;

receiving, by at least one of the one or more computing devices associated with the subscriber, the instance of the content after the instance of the content becomes available to the subscriber computing device through the subscription, wherein the instance of the content is in a format appropriate to the environment of a computing device associated with the subscriber; and

associating, by at least one of the one or more computing devices associated with the subscriber, the at least one usage right with the instance of the content, thereby creating the digital work.

2. An apparatus for creating a digital work that is made available to a subscriber computing device through a subscription, the subscriber computing device being associated with a subscriber of the subscription, the apparatus comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more memories operatively coupled to at least one of the one or more processors and containing instructions that, when executed by at least one of the one or more processors, cause at least one of the one or more processors to;

before an instance of the content is available to the subscriber computing device through the subscription, receive a label associated with at least one usage right;

request access to the instance of the content;

transmit information related to the environment of a computing device associated with the subscriber;

receive the instance of the content after the instance of the content becomes available to the subscriber computing device through the subscription, wherein the instance of the content is in a format appropriate to the environment of a computing device associated with the subscriber; and

associate the at least one usage right with the instance of the content, thereby creating the digital work.

3. At least one non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed by one or more computing devices, create a digital work that is made available to a subscriber computing device through a subscription, the subscriber computing device being associated with a subscriber of the subscription, the instructions causing at least one of the one or more computing devices to:

before an instance of the content is available to the subscriber computing device through the subscription, receive a label associated with at least one usage right;

request access to the instance of the content;

transmit information related to the environment of a computing device associated with the subscriber;

receive the instance of the content after the instance of the content becomes available to the subscriber computing device, wherein the instance of the content is in a format appropriate to the environment of a computing device associated with the subscriber; and

associate the at least one usage right with the instance of the content, thereby creating the digital work.