Digital content publication

• US 7,895,123 B1
• Filed: 06/12/2001
• Issued: 02/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited (Accenture PLC)
• Original Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited (Accenture PLC)
• Inventors: Flores, Gabriel Martin, Miceli, William Henry, Du, L. Garren, Lee, Bryant Chih-Ming
• Primary Examiner(s): Worjloh; Jalatee
• Application Number:
  US09/879,267
• Publication Number:
  US 20110047079A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,542 Days
• Field of Search: 705/1, 705 50- 59, 705/26, 713/200, 713/150, 713/182, 380200-202, 726/2, 726/4, 726 26- 33
• US Class Current: 705/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/10 Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16 ; Digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2463/101 applying security measures for digital rights management data processing systems or methods, specially adapted for commerce, e.g. marketing, shopping, billing, auctions or e-commerce G06Q30/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0442 wherein the sending and receiving network entities apply asymmetric encryption, i.e. different keys for encryption and decryption cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for public-key encryption H04L9/30
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]

Abstract

A method and system for receiving digital content and metadata associated with the digital content. In an embodiment, the method and system inputs publication information associated with the digital content, produces protected digital content, stores the protected digital content, and sends a message including the metadata and the publication information.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method implemented by a system that includes a content publisher, a digital content manager, a digital content publication server, a digital rights manager, and a content distributor, the method comprising:

obtaining, by the digital content publication server, first data that identifies unprotected digital content that has been stored at the digital content manager and that has been selected by the content publisher for distribution or publication;

obtaining, by the digital content publication server, second data from the digital content manager that causes a digital content publication module of the digital content publication server to be invoked;

in response to obtaining the second data from the digital content manager, invoking the digital content publication module by the digital content publication server;

in response to invoking the digital content publication module, receiving the unprotected digital content and metadata associated with the unprotected digital content from the digital content manager by the digital content publication server;

generating, by the digital content publication server, an interface for display by the content publisher, wherein the interface allows the content publisher to enter publication information associated with the unprotected digital content;

receiving, by the digital content publication server and from the content publisher, the publication information associated with the unprotected digital using the interface, the publication information comprising distribution information that identifies the content distributor that has been selected to distribute the digital content;

protecting, by the digital content publication server, the unprotected digital content by one or more processors and the digital content publication module, further comprising;

encrypting the unprotected digital content; and

storing the protected digital content in a directory of the digital content publication server without providing the protected digital content to the digital rights manager;

sending, by the digital content publication server, a rights label including the metadata and the publication information to the digital rights manager for registration by the digital rights manager;

obtaining, by the digital content publication server and from the digital rights manager, third data that indicates that the rights label has been registered with the digital rights manager; and

transmitting an alert, by the digital content publication server to the content distributor, to indicate that the content distributor can retrieve the rights label from the digital rights manager, making the protected digital content available for distribution from the digital content publication server to a customer of the content distributor.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the digital content includes at least one of streaming video content, music content, graphic content, print content, sound content, or audio content.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the metadata includes at least one of a name, length, publisher, location, or description associated with the digital content.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the publication information further comprises at least one of pricing, rights, or catalog information associated with the digital content.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the rights label comprises an eXtensible Rights Markup Language (XrML) rights label.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the digital content publication module comprises an active server page (ASP).

7. The method of claim 1, wherein obtaining data from the digital content manager further comprises receiving a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the interface further comprises populating fields of the interface with at least a portion of the metadata.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the content distributor, the digital content manager, the digital content publication server, and the digital rights manager are each implemented on discrete servers.

10. A system comprising:

one or more computers; and

a computer-readable medium coupled to the one or more computers having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the one or more computers, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising;

obtaining, by a digital content publication server, first data that identifies unprotected digital content that has been stored at a digital content manager and that has been selected by a content publisher for distribution or publication;

obtaining, by the digital content publication server, second data from the digital content manager that causes a digital content publication module of the digital content publication server to be invoked;

in response to obtaining the second data from the digital content manager, invoking the digital content publication module by the digital content publication server;

in response to invoking the digital content publication module, receiving the unprotected digital content and metadata associated with the unprotected digital content from the digital content manager by the digital content publication server;

generating, by the digital content publication server, an interface for display by the content publisher, wherein the interface allows the content publisher to enter publication information associated with the unprotected digital content;

receiving, by the digital content publication server and from the content publisher, the publication information associated with the unprotected digital, using the interface, the publication information comprising distribution information that identifies a content distributor that has been selected to distribute the digital content;

protecting, by the digital content publication server, the unprotected digital content by the digital content publication module, further comprising;

encrypting the unprotected digital content; and

storing the protected digital content in a directory of the digital content publication server without providing the protected digital content to a digital rights manager;

sending, by the digital content publication server, a rights label including the metadata and the publication information to the digital rights manager for registration by the digital rights manager;

obtaining, by the digital content publication server and from the digital rights manager, third data that indicates that the rights label has been registered with the digital rights manager; and

transmitting an alert, by the digital content publication server to the content distributor, to indicate that the content distributor can retrieve the rights label from the digital rights manager, making the protected digital content available for distribution from the digital content publication server to a customer of the content distributor.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the digital content includes at least one of streaming video content, music content, graphic content, print content, sound content, or audio content.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the metadata includes at least one of a name, length, publisher, location, or description associated with the digital content.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the publication information further comprises at least one of pricing, rights, or catalog information associated with the digital content.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the rights label comprises an eXtensible Rights Markup Language (XrML) rights label.

15. The system of claim 10, wherein the digital content publication module comprises an active server page (ASP).

16. The system of claim 10, wherein obtaining data from the digital content manager further comprises receiving a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request.

17. The system of claim 10, wherein providing the interface further comprises populating fields of the interface with at least a portion of the metadata.

18. The system of claim 10, wherein the content distributor, the digital content manager, the digital content publication server, and the digital rights manager are each implemented on discrete servers.

19. A computer storage medium encoded with a computer program, the program comprising instructions that when executed by data processing apparatus cause the data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:

obtaining, by a digital content publication server, first data that identifies unprotected digital content that has been stored at a digital content manager and that has been selected by a content publisher for distribution or publication;

obtaining, by the digital content publication server, second data from the digital content manager that causes a digital content publication module of the digital content publication server to be invoked;

in response to obtaining the second data from the digital content manager, invoking the digital content publication module by the digital content publication server;

in response to invoking the digital content publication module, receiving the unprotected digital content and metadata associated with the unprotected digital content from the digital content manager by the digital content publication server;

generating, by the digital content publication server, an interface for display by the content publisher, wherein the interface allows the content publisher to enter publication information associated with the unprotected digital content;

receiving, by the digital content publication server and from the content publisher, the publication information associated with the unprotected digital content, using the interface, the publication information comprising distribution information that identifies a content distributor that has been selected to distribute the digital content;

protecting, by the digital content publication server, the unprotected digital content by the digital content publication module, further comprising;

encrypting the unprotected digital content; and

storing the protected digital content in a directory of the digital content publication server without providing the protected digital content to a digital rights manager;

sending, by the digital content publication server, a rights label including the metadata and the publication information to the digital rights manager for registration by the digital rights manager;

obtaining, by the digital content publication server and from the digital rights manager, third data that indicates that the rights label has been registered with the digital rights manager; and

transmitting an alert, by the digital content publication server to the content distributor, to indicate that the content distributor can retrieve the rights label from the digital rights manager, making the protected digital content available for distribution from the digital content publication server to a customer of the content distributor.

20. The computer storage medium of claim 19, wherein the digital content includes at least one of streaming video content, music content, graphic content, print content, sound content, or audio content.

21. The computer storage medium of claim 19, wherein the metadata includes at least one of a name, length, publisher, location, or description associated with the digital content.

22. The computer storage medium of claim 19, wherein the publication information further comprises at least one of pricing, rights, or catalog information associated with the digital content.

23. The computer storage medium of claim 19, wherein the rights label comprises an eXtensible Rights Markup Language (XrML) rights label.

24. The computer storage medium of claim 19, wherein the digital content publication module comprises an active server page (ASP).

25. The computer storage medium of claim 19, wherein obtaining data from the digital content manager further comprises receiving a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request.

26. The computer storage medium of claim 19, wherein providing the interface further comprises populating fields of the interface with at least a portion of the metadata.

27. The computer storage medium of claim 19, wherein the content distributor, the digital content manager, the digital content publication server, and the digital rights manager are each implemented on discrete servers.