Identifying and labeling licensed content in an embedded partition

• US 8,463,709 B2
• Filed: 04/11/2006
• Issued: 06/11/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/11/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dell Products LP (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Dell Products LP (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Inventors: Bracamontez, Steve, Zavelson, David, Walline, Erin Kurusz
• Primary Examiner(s): To, Tuan C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): CHEUNG, CALVIN K
• Application Number:
  US11/401,980
• Publication Number:
  US 20070239616A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,618 Days
• Field of Search: 705/51, 705/57, 705/59
• US Class Current: 705/59
• 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: G06Q 90/00 Systems or methods specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial or supervisory purposes, not involving significant data processing

Abstract

A system for providing users with an indication of files that are protected or licensed while a user is executing within the embedded partition set forth. The system enables users to quickly boot into an embedded environment and have an indication of all of their media files, whether the content is accessible via the embedded environment or the content is protected or licensed content stored within another partition. Thus, the user receives an indication that the protected or licensed content is still on their computer and that the user cannot access the protected or licensed content via the embedded environment.

Claims

1. A method for accessing digital content on an information handling system comprising:

providing the information handling system with a first operating system partition and a second operating system partition;

storing an operating system within the first operating system partition;

storing an instant on application within the second operating system partition, the instant on application providing the information handling system with an instant on function to enable access to files without having to boot an operating system;

storing a license management module within the first operating system partition;

determining via the license management module stored on the first operating system partition whether certain content is licensed, the license management module executing on the information handling system; and

presenting a list of content stored on the information handling system via the instant on application, the presenting differentiating providing an indication of a difference between content that is accessible by the instant on application and content that is inaccessible by the instant on application, the instant on application executing on the information handling system; and

wherein

the presenting includes presenting a graphical representation corresponding to each piece of content that is inaccessible by the instant on application.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein

the graphical representation includes a representation that the content that is inaccessible is locked.