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Retail transactions involving digital content in a digital rights management (DRM) system

  • US 7,039,615 B1
  • Filed: 09/28/2000
  • Issued: 05/02/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for a retailer to facilitate issuance of a digital license from a licensor to a customer for a corresponding piece of digital content, the method comprising:

  • receiving, by the retailer from the customer, payment for the license, the payment to be shared with the licensor in a pre-determined manner;

    obtaining, by the retailer from the customer, customer-based information;

    composing, by the retailer, an actual license request including the obtained customer-based information, and including retailer-based information identifying the retailer to the licensor and acknowledging to the licensor that the retailer owes a portion of the received payment to the licensor;

    forwarding, by the retailer to the licensor, the actual license request, and issuing the digital license to the customer;

    wherein the customer has a digital rights management (DRM) system to ensure that the content is rendered in accordance with the licensewherein obtaining the customer-based information comprises;

    delivering, by the retailer to the customer, a dummy package having license acquisition information containing a site identifier for an interposing site controlled by the retailer, the dummy package absent any functional portion of the corresponding piece of digital content;

    delivering, by the retailer to the customer, a controller that can control the DRM system of the customer, wherein such controller directs such DRM system to send a dummy license request to the site identifier for the interposing site controlled by the retailer according to the license acquisition information in the dummy package; and

    receiving, by the retailer at the interposing site from the customer, the dummy license request including customer-based information, andwherein composing the actual license request comprises modifying, by the retailer, the dummy license request to add the retailer-based information;

    wherein the customer has a digital rights management (DRM) system to ensure that the content is rendered in accordance with the license, the method comprising obtaining the customer-based information by a request directed to the DRM system of the customer; and

    obtaining the customer-based information by delivering a controller to the customer that directs the DRM system of the customer to send the customer-based information to the retailer.

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