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Rights management inter-entity message policies and enforcement

  • US 7,284,263 B2
  • Filed: 09/14/2006
  • Issued: 10/16/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2004
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. In a rights management system for protecting messages transferred between two trusted entities from unauthorized access, a method of determining if the messages can be transferred based on each others message policies, the method comprising acts of:

  • receiving a sending entity'"'"'s message policy, which defines the type of operations that a partner entity is allowed to perform on a protected portion of a message;

    receiving the partner entity'"'"'s message policy, which defines the type of operations that are to be performed on the message before the partner entity'"'"'s message server can accept the message;

    comparing the sending entity'"'"'s message policy with the partner entity'"'"'s message policy; and

    based on the comparison, determining if the policies are compatible for transferring the message between the sending and partner entities'"'"' message servers.

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