Accessibility Content Copyright Permission

• US 20080155650A1
• Filed: 03/06/2008
• Published: 06/26/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ServiceNow Incorporated
• Original Assignee: ServiceNow Incorporated
• Inventors: Dutta, Rabindranath, Hartley, John C., Schwerdtfeger, Richard Scott
• Granted Patent: US 9,183,548 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 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]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2117 User registration
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2135 Metering
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2153 Using hardware token as a secondary aspect
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/12 specially adapted for electronic shopping systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/123 Shopping for digital content
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/1235 with control of digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/184 Intellectual property management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/0014 for vending, access and use of specific services not covered anywhere else in G07F17/00 meter-controlled dispensing of liquid, gas or electricity G07F15/00
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 21/006 using audible presentation of the information
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 21/008 using visual presentation of the information for the partially sighted

Abstract

A copyright server receives a copyright request from a requester, such as a portal server. The copyright request corresponds to a user requesting a particular content to be transcoded. The copyright server identifies content copyright permissions associated with the requested content that indicate whether it is permissible to transcode the requested content. If the copyright server does not locate content copyright permissions associated with the requested content, the copyright server identifies the owner of the content and sends a message to the content owner requesting content copyright permission. The copyright server receives a response from the content owner, stores the response on a local storage area, and forwards the response to the requester. The content copyright permissions may include an amount of a transcoding fee that the content owner requires in order to transcode the requested content.

Claims

1. An information handling system comprising:

one or more processors;

a memory accessible by the processors;

one or more nonvolatile storage devices accessible by the processors; and

a copyright permission handling tool to manage copyright permissions, the copyright permission handling tool including;

means for receiving a copyright request from a requester at a copyright server, wherein the copyright request includes a content identifier, the content identifier corresponding to a copyrighted electronic content;

means for identifying a content owner corresponding to the copyrighted electronic content;

means for sending a permission request from the copyright server to the content owner in response to the identifying;

means for receiving a permission response from the content owner at the copyright server in response to the permission request;

means for determining whether it is permissible to transcode the copyrighted electronic content based upon the permission response, wherein the means for determining further comprises;

means for identifying whether a transcoding fee is associated with transcoding the copyrighted electronic content; and

authorizing payment for the transcoding fee; and

means for transcoding the copyrighted electronic content from a visual presentation form to an audible presentation form based upon the determination.

2. The information handling system as described in claim 1 wherein the means for transcoding is performed at a location selected from the group consisting of a portal server, a transcoding proxy server, a client, and a web server.

3. The information handling system as described in claim 1 wherein the means for determining further comprises:

means for matching the content identifier with one or more entries located on one of the nonvolatile storage devices; and

means for identifying permission rights based upon the matching.

4. The information handling system as described in claim 1 wherein the permission response includes permission rights.

5. The information handling system as described in claim 4 further comprising:

means for storing the permission rights on one of the nonvolatile storage devices.

6. The information handling system as described in claim 5 further comprising:

means for identifying a time limit corresponding to the permission rights; and

means for assigning a permission expiration data corresponding to the time limit.

9. The computer program product as described in claim 1 wherein the means for determining further comprises:

means for matching the content identifier with one or more entries located in a local permission storage area; and

means for identifying permission rights based upon the matching.

7. A computer program product stored on a computer operable media for managing copyright permissions, said computer program product comprising:

means for receiving a copyright request from a requester at a copyright server, wherein the copyright request includes a content identifier, the content identifier corresponding to a copyrighted electronic content;

means for identifying a content owner corresponding to the copyrighted electronic content;

means for sending a permission request from the copyright server to the content owner in response to the identifying;

means for receiving a permission response from the content owner at the copyright server in response to the permission request;

means for determining whether it is permissible to transcode the copyrighted electronic content based upon the permission response, wherein the means for determining further comprises;

means for identifying whether a transcoding fee is associated with transcoding the copyrighted electronic content; and

authorizing payment for the transcoding fee; and

means for transcoding the copyrighted electronic content from a visual presentation form to an audible presentation form based upon the determination.

8. The computer program product as described in claim 7 wherein the means for transcoding is performed at a location selected from the group consisting of a portal server, a transcoding proxy server, a client, and a web server.

10. The computer program product as described in claim 7 wherein the permission response includes permission rights.

11. The computer program product as described in claim 10 further comprising:

means for storing the permission rights on a local permission storage area.

12. The computer program product as described in claim 11 further comprising:

means for identifying a time limit corresponding to the permission rights; and

means for assigning a permission expiration date corresponding to the time limit.