Digital rights management
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1. A method of augmenting digital rights management, the method comprising:
- associating a first field with an electronic property, wherein the first field identifies a current owner of the electronic property; and
associating a second field with the electronic property, wherein the second field includes a list of owners having an order according to a historical order of transfer of rights to the electronic property between a plurality of previous owners; and
wherein access control software allows access to the electronic property only upon verification that a user satisfies specified requirements for access, and wherein the specified requirements include the user being listed as the current owner in the first field.
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Abstract
A method, program, and system for augmenting digital rights management are provided. The invention comprises associating two fields with an electronic document. The first field identifies the current owner of the electronic document, and the second field contains information about previous ownership of the electronic document. If ownership of the electronic document is transferred from the current owner to a subsequent owner, the current owner'"'"'s name in the first field is replaced with the subsequent owner'"'"'s name. In addition, information about the subsequent owner is added to the ownership history field.
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35 Claims
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1. A method of augmenting digital rights management, the method comprising:
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associating a first field with an electronic property, wherein the first field identifies a current owner of the electronic property; and associating a second field with the electronic property, wherein the second field includes a list of owners having an order according to a historical order of transfer of rights to the electronic property between a plurality of previous owners; and wherein access control software allows access to the electronic property only upon verification that a user satisfies specified requirements for access, and wherein the specified requirements include the user being listed as the current owner in the first field. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A computer program product in a computer readable medium for use in a data processing system, for augmenting digital rights management, the computer program product comprising:
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instructions for associating a first field with an electronic property, wherein the first field identifies a current owner of the electronic property; and instructions for associating a second field with the electronic property, wherein the second field includes a list of owners having an order according to a historical order of transfer of rights to the electronic property between a plurality of previous owners; and wherein access control software allows access to the electronic property only upon verification that a user satisfies specified requirements for access, and wherein the specified requirements include the user being listed as the current owner in the first field. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. A system for augmenting digital rights management, the method comprising:
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a first register which associates a first field with an electronic property, wherein the first field identifies a current owner of the electronic document; a second register which associates a second field with the electronic property, wherein the second field includes a list of owners having an order according to a historical order of transfer of rights to the electronic property between a plurality of previous owners; and wherein access control software allows access to the electronic property only upon verification that a user satisfies specified requirements for access, wherein the specified requirements include the user being the current owner in the first field. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35)
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