Non-intrusive digital rights enforcement
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1. A method for controlling the viewing of copyrighted information, transmitted from a data source, on the Internet, comprising:
- receiving, by a data source, a request for information from a client;
transmitting information in an original format, from the data source to a proxy server, responsive to the request;
converting the information, at the proxy server, from the original format to a modified form, wherein converting to the modified form comprises temporally modulating a display of the information in a manner which hinders copying of the information;
transmitting the modified form of the information to the client; and
displaying the modified form of the information at the client so that the displayed information differs from the original format in such a manner that the information is less available for copying than in the original format.
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Abstract
A method for transferring information between a server (24) and a client (28), through a converter (22), comprising:
- analyzing at least a portion the information by the converter (22), to determine a standard used by the server (24) to encode the information in the portion; and
- replacing at least a portion of the analyzed information with other information, which other information uses a second standard,
- wherein, analyzing comprises parsing the information on a syntactic level and wherein the information comprises at least one Internet hypertext document.
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1. A method for controlling the viewing of copyrighted information, transmitted from a data source, on the Internet, comprising:
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receiving, by a data source, a request for information from a client; transmitting information in an original format, from the data source to a proxy server, responsive to the request; converting the information, at the proxy server, from the original format to a modified form, wherein converting to the modified form comprises temporally modulating a display of the information in a manner which hinders copying of the information; transmitting the modified form of the information to the client; and displaying the modified form of the information at the client so that the displayed information differs from the original format in such a manner that the information is less available for copying than in the original format. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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31. A method according to clan 30, wherein converting the information comprises converting said information to a form unusable by said client without said software.
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36. A method of providing copyright information by a server between a data source and a client computer, comprising:
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receiving information in a first format; determining that the received information requires format conversion for copyright protection; converting the information in to a second format, in which display of the information is easily accessible to the senses of a consumer, but is less accessible to data manipulation tool on a computer performing the display, than in the first format; and displaying the information in the second format, by the client computer so that the displayed information differs from the first format in such a manner that the information is less available for copying than in the first format. - View Dependent Claims (37, 38, 39, 40, 41)
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