Authenticating licenses for legally-protectable content based on license profiles and content identifiers
First Claim
1. A method for facilitating deployment of aggregated protectable content in an environment comprising:
- receiving, by a license authority device, a registration request message including at least a content ID, a license profile, and an owner ID from a content owner device;
accessing, by the license authority device, the content ID, the license profile, and the owner ID from the received registration message;
identifying, by the license authority device, an algorithm type used in forming the content ID;
computing, by the license authority device, a license identifier of an aggregated protectable content based on the content ID, the license profile, the owner ID, and the algorithm type;
storing, by the license authority device, the identified algorithm type, the computed license identifier, the content ID, the license profile, and the owner ID in one or more repositories;
transmitting, by the license authority device, the computed license identifier to the content owner device;
receiving, by the license authority device, a request message comprising a second license identifier from a content user device;
retrieving, by the license authority device, the computed license identifier from the one or more repositories;
comparing, by the license authority device, the second license identifier with the retrieved computed license identifier; and
providing, by the license authority device, an authenticity information of the second license identifier to the content user device based on the step of comparing.
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Abstract
The disclosed technology can mitigate the risk of infringing a content owner'"'"'s rights in legally-protectable content by operating as a trusted, third-party license authority between content owners and content users to ensure that a license governing at least some aspects of the protectable content is authentic and thus validly represents the restrictions imposed by content owners pertaining to the use, distribution, modification, combination, interaction, and/or other manipulation of such content. An identifier representative of the protectable content together with a profile of the license (which may include attributes that specify particular restrictions, uses, and interactions pertaining to the protectable content) can serve as a basis for determining the authenticity of the license associated with the protectable content. The protectable content can correspond to one or more multimedia presentations, video segments, audio segments, textual representations, works of art, visual representations, technological know-how, business know-how, contract rights, and/or software elements.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for facilitating deployment of aggregated protectable content in an environment comprising:
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receiving, by a license authority device, a registration request message including at least a content ID, a license profile, and an owner ID from a content owner device; accessing, by the license authority device, the content ID, the license profile, and the owner ID from the received registration message; identifying, by the license authority device, an algorithm type used in forming the content ID; computing, by the license authority device, a license identifier of an aggregated protectable content based on the content ID, the license profile, the owner ID, and the algorithm type; storing, by the license authority device, the identified algorithm type, the computed license identifier, the content ID, the license profile, and the owner ID in one or more repositories; transmitting, by the license authority device, the computed license identifier to the content owner device; receiving, by the license authority device, a request message comprising a second license identifier from a content user device; retrieving, by the license authority device, the computed license identifier from the one or more repositories; comparing, by the license authority device, the second license identifier with the retrieved computed license identifier; and providing, by the license authority device, an authenticity information of the second license identifier to the content user device based on the step of comparing. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A system for facilitating deployment of aggregated protectable content, the system comprising:
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one or more processors; and memory storing computer executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform the operation of; receiving a registration request message including at least a content ID, a license profile, and an owner ID from a content owner device; accessing the content ID, the license profile, and the owner ID from the received registration message; identifying an algorithm type used in forming the content ID; computing a license identifier of an aggregated protectable content based on the content ID, the license profile, the owner ID, and the algorithm type; storing the identified algorithm type, the computed license identifier, the content ID, the license profile, and the owner ID in one or more repositories; transmitting the computed license identifier to the content owner device; receiving a request message comprising a second license identifier from a content user device; retrieving the computed license identifier from the one or more repositories; comparing the second license identifier with the retrieved computed license identifier; and providing an authenticity information of the second license identifier to the content user device based on the comparison. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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