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Method and apparatus for validating security components through a request for content

  • US 7,206,941 B2
  • Filed: 04/30/2003
  • Issued: 04/17/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system of controlling use of content in accordance with usage rights associated with the content, said system comprising:

  • means for analyzing a request for content by looking for a signature from a user device making the request to determine if the user device has security components for enforcing the usage rights, the user device including a standard application program having a rendering engine capable of being accessed to render content;

    means for determining if the request does not have the signature, sending a software agent to the user device to determine if the user device, including the rendering engine of the standard application program, is secure and resending the request with the signature if the user device is secure; and

    means for rendering the content with the rendering engine of the standard application program of the user device in accordance with the usage rights in response to the resent request.

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