Digital rights management and behavioral traits

• US 9,953,142 B2
• Filed: 07/29/2015
• Issued: 04/24/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Anantharaman, Arun
• Primary Examiner(s): Paliwal, Yogesh
• Application Number:
  US14/812,825
• Publication Number:
  US 20170032109A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,000 Days
• Field of Search: 726 1
• 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]

Abstract

Digital rights management and behavioral trait techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a method is described of specifying and controlling access to content to be created. Data is received, by one or more computing devices. The data describes characteristics of the content to be created along with a digital rights management policy specifying traits of a behavior to be met by a user in order to access one or more portions of the content. The content is created, based at least in part on the received characteristics, as specified by a user interacting with the one or more computing devices. The digital rights management policy is embedded as part of the created content by the one or more computing devices as a digital rights management module to control access to the one or more portions of the content based on whether the traits are met by a user that requests the access.

Claims

1. A method of creating content in a digital medium environment, the method comprising:

receiving, by at least one computing device, data describing characteristics of the content to be created along with a digital rights management policy specifying traits of a behavior to be met by a user in order to access one or more portions of the content;

receiving, by the at least one computing device and subsequent to receiving the data, at least one user input to create the content as having the characteristics described by the received data;

creating, by the at least one computing device, the content based on the received at least one user input; and

embedding, by the at least one computing device, the digital rights management policy formed based on the traits of the behavior as part of the created content as a digital rights management module to control access to the one or more portions of the content based on whether the traits are met by a user that requests the access, the digital rights management module not being particular to the user that requests the access.

2. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the specified traits of the behavior are not unique to the user but rather are usable to define the behavior of a user population as a whole such that a plurality of said users are likely to meet the characteristics.

3. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the digital rights management module is embedded as part of the created content such that the one or more portions are available offline to the digital rights management module locally and without network access.

4. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the digital rights management module is configured to control access such that access to a first said portion of the content is made available when a first set of said traits are met and access to a second said portion of the content is made available when a second set of said traits are met.

5. A method as described in claim 4, wherein the first and second set of said traits are mutually exclusive such that the user that meets the first set of said traits cannot met the second set of said traits.

6. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the traits of the behavior include age, gender, geographic location.

7. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the traits of the behavior include membership in a particular organization, business status, or job title.

8. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the traits of the behavior involve characteristics of a device used to access the content.

9. A system for creating content in a digital medium environment, the system comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more computer-readable storage media storing computer-executable instructions that, responsive to execution by the one or more processors, cause the system to perform operations including;

receiving data describing characteristics of the content to be created along with a digital rights management policy specifying traits of a behavior to be met by a user in order to access one or more portions of the content;

receiving, subsequent to receiving the data, at least one user input to create the content as having the characteristics described by the received data;

creating the content based on the received at least one user input; and

embedding the digital rights management policy formed based on the traits of the behavior as part of the created content as a digital rights management module to control access to the one or more portions of the content based on whether the traits are met by a user that requests the access, the digital rights management module not being particular to the user that requests the access.

10. A system as described in claim 9, wherein the specified traits of the behavior are not unique to the user but rather are usable to define the behavior of a user population as a whole such that a plurality of said users are likely to meet the characteristics.

11. A system as described in claim 9, wherein the digital rights management module is embedded as part of the created content such that the one or more portions are available offline to the digital rights management module locally and without network access.

12. A system as described in claim 9, wherein the digital rights management module is configured to control access such that access to a first said portion of the content is made available when a first set of said traits are met and access to a second said portion of the content is made available when a second set of said traits are met.

13. A system as described in claim 12, wherein the first and second set of said traits are mutually exclusive such that the user that meets the first set of said traits cannot met the second set of said traits.

14. A system as described in claim 9, wherein the traits of the behavior include age, gender, geographic location.

15. A system as described in claim 9, wherein the traits of the behavior include membership in a particular organization, business status, or job title.

16. A system as described in claim 9, wherein the traits of the behavior involve characteristics of a device used to access the content.

17. One or more computer-readable storage media comprising instructions stored thereon that, responsive to execution by one or more processors of a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:

receiving data describing characteristics of the content to be created along with a digital rights management policy specifying traits of a behavior to be met by a user in order to access one or more portions of the content;

receiving, subsequent to receiving the data, at least one user input to create the content as having the characteristics described by the received data;

creating the content based on the received at least one user input; and

embedding the digital rights management policy formed based on the traits of the behavior as part of the created content as a digital rights management module to control access to the one or more portions of the content based on whether the traits are met by a user that requests the access, the digital rights management module not being particular to the user that requests the access.

18. One or more computer-readable storage media as described in claim 17, wherein the specified traits of the behavior are not unique to the user but rather are usable to define the behavior of a user population as a whole such that a plurality of said users are likely to meet the characteristics.

19. One or more computer-readable storage media as described in claim 17, wherein the digital rights management module is embedded as part of the created content such that the one or more portions are available offline to the digital rights management module locally and without network access.

20. One or more computer-readable storage media as described in claim 17, wherein the digital rights management module is configured to control access such that access to a first said portion of the content is made available when a first set of said traits are met and access to a second said portion of the content is made available when a second set of said traits are met.