Digital rights management integrated service solution

• US 8,205,001 B1
• Filed: 06/11/2009
• Issued: 06/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Original Assignee: Sprint Communications Company LP (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Inventors: Zhu, Weiwen
• Primary Examiner(s): Serrao, Ranodhi
• Application Number:
  US12/483,127
• Time in Patent Office: 1,104 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/230, 726/26, 455/414.4
• US Class Current: 709/230
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/1073 Conversion
• 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 63/0823 using certificates cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication involving certificates H04L9/3263
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a system for accessing content secured according to differing digital rights management protocols. The system comprises a device that presents the content and a client component loaded on the device that uses and requests content according to a first digital rights management protocol. The system includes a first content server that receives a request for and provides content according to the first digital rights management protocol and a second content server that receives a request for and provides content according to a second digital rights management protocol. A mediation component maps requests and responses between the client component and the second content server, mediating between the first and second digital rights management protocols. The disclosure contemplates mediating between open digital rights language (ODRL) and extensible right markup language (XRML) digital rights management protocols as well as other digital rights management protocols.

Claims

1. A system for wirelessly accessing content and applications to play or use the content, comprising:

a mobile device configured to request the content, comprising;

a memory configured to store less than all of a plurality of applications at a time, wherein each of the plurality of applications is configured to play or use the content according to a corresponding one of a plurality of content management protocols, and wherein the plurality of applications comprises an application configured to play or use content according to the open digital rights language protocol and an application configured to play or use content according to the extensible rights markup language protocol; and

a content consumption component configured to play or use the content using one of the plurality of applications that is stored in the memory;

a swapping component configured to receive a request for any one of the plurality of the applications and to communicate the requested one of the plurality of applications to the mobile device for storage in the memory and use by the content consumption component; and

a content component configured to receive a request for the content from the mobile device and to communicate the content to the mobile device according to a first of the plurality of content management protocols,

wherein the swapping component receives a request for and communicates a first of the plurality of applications to the mobile device for storage in the memory and use by the content consumption component to play or use the content according to the first of the plurality of content management protocols.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile device further comprises:

an application manager configured to request one of the plurality of applications not stored in the memory from the swapping component, and

wherein the swapping component provides the requested one of the plurality of applications to the mobile device in response to the request from the application manager.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the application manager is further configured to determine which of the plurality of applications to request in order to access the content on the content component by one of receiving a designation of the one of the plurality of applications or discovering the one of the plurality of applications through communication with the content component.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the memory is configured to only store one of the plurality of applications at a time.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a second content component configured to receive a second request for second content from the mobile device and to communicate the second content to the mobile device according to a second of the plurality of content management protocols,

wherein the swapping component provides a second of the plurality of applications to the mobile device to present the second content with the content presentation device according to the second of the plurality of content management protocols.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the content is further defined to be selected from at least one of the group consisting of text, audio, video, music, audio/video, and encrypted contents.

7. A method for providing content management clients to a mobile device to access and play content secured according to different content management protocols, comprising:

receiving by a swapping component a request from the mobile device for one of a plurality of content management clients, wherein each of the different content management clients is configured to play content according to a corresponding one of the different content management protocols, and wherein the plurality of content management clients comprises a content management client configured to play content according to the open digital rights language protocol and a content management client configured to play content according to the extensible rights markup language protocol;

obtaining by the swapping component the requested content management client from a component that maintains the different content management protocols; and

communicating by the swapping component the requested content management client to the mobile device, wherein the mobile device has limited memory resources and is only capable of storing less than all of the plurality of content management clients at a time.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the mobile device is only capable of storing one of the plurality of content management clients at a time.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the content is selected from at least one of the group consisting of text, audio, video, music, audio/video, and encrypted contents.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the plurality of content management clients are programs.

11. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

receiving by the swapping component a request from the mobile device for a portion of one of the plurality of content management clients;

obtaining by the swapping component the requested portion of the one of the plurality of content management clients from a component that maintains the different content management protocols; and

communicating by the swapping component the requested portion of the content management client to the mobile device.

12. A method for providing content management clients to a mobile device to access and use content secured according to different content management protocols, comprising:

receiving by a swapping component a request from the mobile device for one of a plurality of content management clients, wherein each of the different content management clients is configured to use content according to a corresponding one of the different content management protocols, and wherein the plurality of content management clients comprises a content management client configured to use content according to the open digital rights language protocol and a content management client configured to use content according to the extensible rights markup language protocol;

obtaining by the swapping component the requested content management client from a component that maintains the different content management protocols; and

communicating by the swapping component the requested content management client to the mobile device, wherein the mobile device has limited memory resources and is only capable of storing less than all of the plurality of content management clients at a time.