Digital rights management dongle
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1. A method of digital rights management comprising:
- receiving source encrypted content at a computing device, wherein the computing device comprises a rendering module;
transferring the source encrypted content from the computing device to a dongle;
translating, by the dongle, a set of digital rights management rules associated with the source encrypted content to a set of digital rights management rules associated with the dongle;
generating, by the dongle, a managed copy of the source encrypted content by decrypting the source encrypted content, encrypting the decrypted source encrypted content using a dongle key and storing the managed copy in the memory of the dongle or in a storage media of the computing device;
decrypting the managed copy by the dongle and creating a rendering copy by re-encrypting the decrypted managed copy using a public key of the rendering module; and
transmitting by the dongle the rendering copy to the rendering module.
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Abstract
A dongle for digital rights management protection, in accordance with one embodiment of the present technology, includes a digital right management engine and an encryption/decryption engine. The digital rights management engine is adapted to port digital rights management rules of a source of content to digital rights management rules enforced by the digital rights management engine. The encryption/decryption engine is adapted to re-encrypting the source of content into a managed copy of the content, wherein the managed copy of the content is locked to the dongle.
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1. A method of digital rights management comprising:
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receiving source encrypted content at a computing device, wherein the computing device comprises a rendering module; transferring the source encrypted content from the computing device to a dongle; translating, by the dongle, a set of digital rights management rules associated with the source encrypted content to a set of digital rights management rules associated with the dongle; generating, by the dongle, a managed copy of the source encrypted content by decrypting the source encrypted content, encrypting the decrypted source encrypted content using a dongle key and storing the managed copy in the memory of the dongle or in a storage media of the computing device; decrypting the managed copy by the dongle and creating a rendering copy by re-encrypting the decrypted managed copy using a public key of the rendering module; and transmitting by the dongle the rendering copy to the rendering module. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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