Enforcing conditions of use associated with disparate data sets

• US 9,032,546 B2
• Filed: 11/20/2013
• Issued: 05/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Khosravy, Moe, Mall, Roger Soulen
• Primary Examiner(s): BAYOU, YONAS A
• Application Number:
  US14/085,485
• Publication Number:
  US 20140149589A1
• Time in Patent Office: 538 Days
• Field of Search: 726/28
• US Class Current: 726/28
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/18 Legal services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/70 Admission control; Resource allocation

Abstract

Techniques are described herein that are capable of enforcing conditions of use associated with disparate data sets. For example, content may be published. Conditions of use that are associated with the published content may be specified. The published content may include disparate data sets. Each data set may be associated with its own condition(s) of use. The condition(s) of use associated with each data set may be enforced.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

at least one element including at least one of (a) one or more processors or (b) hardware logic/electrical circuitry;

a publication module, implemented using the at least one element, configured to publish content;

a condition generation module, implemented using the at least one element, configured to specify conditions of use that are associated with published content from the publication module, the published content including a plurality of disparate data sets, each data set of the plurality of disparate data sets associated with its own one or more conditions of use;

an enforcement module, implemented using the at least one element, configured to enforce the one or more conditions of use that are associated with each data set; and

an access information generator, implemented using the at least one element, configured to generate a report that indicates at least one of one or more services or one or more data sets that are accessed in the published content, the access information generator configured to group information in the report based on a plurality of account keys, at least one of each of the one or more services or each of the one or more data sets associated with an account key of the plurality of account keys.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the enforcement module is configured to monitor the use of the published content.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the enforcement module is configured to disallow a disallowed activity indicated by at least one of the one or more conditions of use that are associated with at least one of the plurality of disparate data sets based on the monitored use.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the enforcement module comprises:

an information rights management module configured to disallow the disallowed activity in contravention of the at least one of the one or more conditions of use that are associated with the at least one of the plurality of disparate data sets.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the conditions of use that are associated with the published content include a limit with regard to usage of the published content.

6. The system of claim 1,

wherein the report indicates the one or more data sets that are accessed in the published content.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the report indicates a trend with regard to the use of the published content.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the published content is from a plurality of types of sources.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the enforcement module is configured to enforce the one or more conditions of use that are associated with each data set over a plurality of types of platforms.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the enforcement module is configured to monitor the use of the published content;

and

wherein the enforcement module is configured to disallow a disallowed activity indicated by at least one of the one or more conditions of use that are associated with at least one of the plurality of disparate data sets over the plurality of types of platforms based on the monitored use.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the report indicates the one or more services.

12. A method comprising:

publishing content from a plurality of types of sources, using at least one element that includes at least one of (a) one or more processors or (b) hardware logic/electrical circuitry, to provide published content that includes a plurality of disparate data sets;

specifying conditions of use that are associated with the published content, each data set of the plurality of disparate data sets associated with its own one or more conditions of use; and

enforcing the one or more conditions of use that are associated with each data set.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein enforcing the one or more conditions of use that are associated with each data set comprises:

monitoring the use of the published content.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein enforcing the one or more conditions of use that are associated with each data set further comprises:

disallowing a disallowed activity indicated by at least one of the one or more conditions of use that are associated with a specified data set based on the monitored use.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the conditions of use that are associated with the published content include a limit with regard to usage of the published content.

16. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

generating a report that indicates at least one of one or more services or one or more data sets that are accessed in the published content.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the report indicates a trend with regard to the use of the published content.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein generating the report comprises:

generating the report that indicates the one or more services.

19. The method of claim 12, wherein enforcing the one or more conditions of use that are associated with each data set comprises:

enforcing the one or more conditions of use that are associated with each data set over a plurality of types of platforms.

20. A method comprising:

publishing content, using at least one element that includes at least one of (a) one or more processors or (b) hardware logic/electrical circuitry, to provide published content that includes a plurality of disparate data sets;

specifying conditions of use that are associated with the published content, each data set of the plurality of disparate data sets associated with its own one or more conditions of use;

enforcing the one or more conditions of use that are associated with each data set;

generating a report that indicates at least one of one or more services or one or more data sets that are accessed in the published content; and

grouping information in the report based on a plurality of account keys,

at least one of each of the one or more services or each of the one or more data sets associated with an account key of the plurality of account keys.

21. A computer-readable storage device having instructions stored thereon that, when executed, cause a processor to perform functions comprising:

publishing content to provide published content that includes a plurality of disparate data sets;

specifying conditions of use that are associated with the published content, each data set of the plurality of disparate data sets associated with its own one or more conditions of use; and

enforcing the one or more conditions of use that are associated with each data set over a plurality of types of platforms.

22. The computer-readable storage device of claim 21, wherein enforcing the one or more conditions of use that are associated with each data set comprises:

monitoring the use of the published content.

23. The computer-readable storage device of claim 21, wherein enforcing the one or more conditions of use that are associated with each data set further comprises:

disallowing a disallowed activity indicated by at least one of the one or more conditions of use that are associated with a specified data set based on the monitored use.

24. The computer-readable storage device of claim 21, wherein the conditions of use that are associated with the published content include a limit with regard to usage of the published content.

25. The computer-readable storage device of claim 21, wherein the functions further comprise:

generating a report that indicates at least one of one or more services or one or more data sets that are accessed in the published content.

26. The computer-readable storage device of claim 25, wherein the report indicates a trend with regard to the use of the published content.

27. The computer-readable storage device of claim 25, wherein the report indicates the one or more services.

28. The computer-readable storage device of claim 21, wherein the published content is from a plurality of types of sources.

29. A computer-readable storage device having instructions stored thereon that, when executed, cause a processor to perform functions comprising:

publishing content to provide published content that includes a plurality of disparate data sets;

specifying conditions of use that are associated with the published content, the conditions of use including a limit with regard to usage of the published content, each data set of the plurality of disparate data sets associated with its own one or more conditions of use;

enforcing the one or more conditions of use that are associated with each data set;

generating a report that indicates at least one of one or more services or one or more data sets that are accessed in the published content; and

grouping information in the report based on a plurality of account keys,

at least one of each of the one or more services or each of the one or more data sets associated with an account key of the plurality of account keys.