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Supervised license acquisition in a digital rights management system on a computing device

  • US 7,065,507 B2
  • Filed: 03/26/2001
  • Issued: 06/20/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of acquiring a digital license that authorizes rendering of corresponding digital content, the digital license to be acquired upon a rendering application on a computing device requesting a digital rights management (DRM) system on the computing device for authorization for such rendering based on such digital license and upon the DRM system notifying the rendering application that such digital license is not available on the computing device, the method comprising:

  • hosting, by the rendering application, a browser that is initiated by the rendering application, under the control of such rendering application, and viewed within the context of the rendering application;

    causing, by the rendering application, the browser to navigate to a license server;

    allowing a user to communicate with the license server by way of the hosted browser to acquire the digital license;

    receiving the digital license from the license server; and

    shutting down, by the hosting rendering application, the hosted browser upon receiving the digital license.

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