CLOUD E-DRM SYSTEM AND SERVICE METHOD THEREOF

• US 20150067893A1
• Filed: 08/28/2013
• Published: 03/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Chung Jong Lee
• Original Assignee: Chung Jong Lee
• Inventors: LEE, Chung Jong
• Granted Patent: US 9,529,978 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/30
• 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]

Abstract

A digital rights management system and a service method thereof, and an enterprise digital rights management (E-DRM) system for document security installed in a cloud system are provided. The present systems can be implemented to be used in a variety of environments without being affected by the type or environment of a user terminal using a method which allows the client to use a contents data through a virtual machine system, and the E-DRM system is configured to include a cloud system, a security system and a virtual machine system.

Claims

1. A cloud E-DRM system comprising:

a cloud system in which an E-DRM solution is installed, for encrypting and storing a contents data or decrypting and providing the contents data if it is called;

a security system having access right information of a user, for confirming whether or not a client requesting the contents data has a proper right and requesting the contents data from the cloud system; and

a virtual machine system for receiving a request for the contents data from the client and transfers the request to the security system, and receiving the contents data from the security system and displaying the received contents data so that the client may view the contents data.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the cloud system includes:

a cloud server in which the E-DRM solution is installed;

an encryption and decryption server for encrypting and decrypting the contents data; and

a DRM storage device for storing DRM data.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the cloud system is configured of a plurality of systems, and encrypts, decrypts and stores the contents data in a parallel distributed method.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the security system includes:

an authentication server for authenticating the client; and

a policy server having access right information of the user and policy information for the contents data.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein the security system further includes a security server for creating an output data including at least one or more of the contents data, the output request client and an output date in the contents data in a form of a barcode or a watermark, in response to a request of the client for outputting the contents data.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the security system further includes a security server for creating an e-mail including a link to the contents data, in response to a request of the client for providing the contents data to outside of a network.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein the contents data returned to the virtual machine system from the cloud system or the security system is a copy of the contents data.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein the virtual machine system includes:

a virtual server having a screen display function; and

one or more device-type-specific servers, wherein

if the device-type-specific server receives a request for the contents data from the client, the virtual server transfers the request for the contents data to the security system, receives a result of the request and provides the device-type-specific server with a result screen.

9. The system according to claim 1, wherein when update of the contents data is requested, the contents data is updated after making an agreement on the contents data with a contents distributor or creator.

10. A cloud E-DRM service method comprising:

a data request reception step of receiving a request for a contents data from a client and transferring information on the client and the request for the contents data to a security system, by a virtual machine system;

a right confirmation step of confirming whether or not the client has a proper right on the contents data, by the security system;

a data request step of requesting the contents data from the cloud server, by the security system, if it is determined that the client has a proper right;

a contents return step of finding the contents data from a storage device, encrypting the contents data and returning the contents data to the security system or the virtual machine system, by the cloud server;

an image configuration step of configuring an image using the returned contents data, by the virtual machine system; and

a client response step of providing the client with the configured image, by the virtual machine system.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein at the contents return step, the contents data returned to the virtual machine system is a copy data, not an original data.

12. A cloud E-DRM service method comprising:

a data output request reception step of receiving a request for outputting a contents data from a client and transferring information on the client and the request for outputting the contents data to a security system, by a virtual machine system;

a right confirmation step of confirming whether or not the client has a proper right for outputting the contents data, by the security system;

a data request step of requesting the contents data from the cloud server, by the security system, if it is determined that the client has a proper right;

a contents return step of finding the contents data from a storage device, encrypting the contents data and returning the contents data to the security system, by the cloud server;

an output data configuration step of configuring an output data including at least one or more of the contents data, the output request client and an output date in the returned contents data in a form of a barcode or a watermark, by the security system; and

an output step of outputting the configured output data through a printing device.

13. A cloud E-DRM service method comprising:

a data provide request reception step of receiving a request for providing a contents data to outside of a network from a client and transferring information on the client and the request for providing the contents data to outside of the network to a security system, by a virtual machine system;

a right confirmation step of confirming whether or not the client has a proper right for providing the contents data to outside, by the security system;

a data request step of requesting the contents data from the cloud server, by the security system, if it is determined that the client has a proper right;

a contents return step of finding the contents data from a storage device, encrypting the contents data and returning the contents data to the security system, by the cloud server;

an e-mail creation step of creating an e-mail including a link to the returned contents data, by the security system; and

an e-mail transmission and confirmation step of transmitting the created e-mail to the client or an address of a destination requested by the client and confirming the contents data using the link included in the e-mail.