Digital Rights Management of Captured Content Based on Capture Associated Locations

• US 20090217344A1
• Filed: 02/26/2008
• Published: 08/27/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Cohen, Gabriel A., Grigsby, Travis M., Bellwood, Thomas A., Paolini, Michael A.
• Granted Patent: US 8,185,959 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 21/16 Program or content traceability, e.g. by watermarking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/60 Digital content management, e.g. content distribution
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/603 Digital right managament [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/64 Self-signed certificates
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2463/103 applying security measure for protecting copy right protecting software against unauthorised usage in a vending or licensing environment, e.g. protection the software providers copyright G06F21/10; data processing systems or methods, specially adapted for payment schemes, architectures or protocols G06Q20/00; secrecy systems or subscription systems H04N7/16
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/107 wherein the security policies are location-dependent, e.g. entities privileges depend on current location or allowing specific operations only from locally connected terminals

Abstract

When captured content is detected, the captured content is analyzed to determine whether any portion of the content is subject to digital rights management protection specified for content captured, where captured content is content captured independent of distribution of the content by an owner of at least one restricted element within the captured content. In response to determining that a portion of the captured content is subject to digital rights management protection, a database is queried to select at least one digital rights management rule associated with the portion and comprising at least one location based criteria. At least one relevant location is associated with the captured content. At least one digital rights management rule is applied to restrict usage of the captured content, with the at least one location based criteria specified by the at least one relevant location. In addition, in response to determining that the captured content is not subject to digital rights management protection, a certification is applied to the captured content designating a particular system that determined no portion of the captured content is subject to digital rights management protection.

Claims

1. A method of digital rights management of captured content, comprising:

analyzing captured content to determine whether a portion of the captured content is subject to digital rights management protection specified for content captured independent of distribution of at least one restricted element within the captured content by an owner of the at least one restricted element;

in response to determining that a portion of the captured content is subject to digital rights management protection, querying a database to select at least one digital rights management rule associated with the portion and comprising at least one location based criteria;

detecting at least one relevant location associated with the captured content; and

applying the at least one digital rights management rule with the at least one location based criteria specified by the at least one relevant location to restrict usage of the captured content.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

in response to determining that the captured content is not subject to digital rights management protection, applying a certification to the captured content designating a particular system that determined no portion of the captured content is subject to digital rights management protection.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein detecting at least one relevant location associated with the captured content further comprises:

detecting a location of an image capture device used for capturing the captured content comprising at least one image of the at least one restricted element.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein detecting at least one relevant location associated with the captured content further comprises:

detecting a distance between a first position of the at least one restricted element and a second position of a device capturing the captured content comprising the at least one restricted element.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein detecting at least one relevant location associated with the captured content further comprises:

detecting a network address of a website originally comprising the captured content.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein applying the at least one digital rights management rule with the at least one location based criteria specified by the at least one relevant location to restrict usage of the captured content further comprises:

applying the at least one digital rights management rule specified for any content captured within a particular location detected in the at least one relevant location.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein applying the at least one digital rights management rule with the at least one location based criteria specified by the at least one relevant location to restrict usage of the captured content further comprises:

restricting usage of the captured content according to the applied at least one digital rights management rule with the at least one location based criteria specified by the at least one relevant location to at least one of storage of the captured content, use of the captured content by an application, and uploading the captured content to a web service.

8. A system for digital rights management of captured content, comprising:

a content management enabled device for receiving captured content;

a content analysis controller for analyzing the captured content to determine whether a portion of the content is subject to digital rights management protection specified for content captured independent of distribution of at least one restricted element within the captured content by an owner of the at least one restricted element;

a captured content rights controller, responsive to the content analysis controller determining that a portion of the captured content is subject to digital rights management protection, for querying a database to select at least one digital rights management rule associated with the portion and comprising at least one location based criteria;

a location detector for detecting at least one relevant location associated with the captured content; and

the captured content rights controller for applying the at least one digital rights management rule with the at least one location based criteria specified by the at least one relevant location received from the location detector to restrict usage of the captured content.

9. The system according to claim 8, further comprising the captured content rights controller, responsive to the content analysis controller determining that the captured content is not subject to digital rights management protection, for applying a certification to the captured content designating a particular system that determined no portion of the captured content is subject to digital rights management protection.

10. The system according to claim 8, the location detector further comprising means for detecting a location of an image capture device used for capturing the captured content comprising at least one image of the at least one restricted element.

11. The system according to claim 8, the location detector further comprising means for detecting a distance between a first position of the at least one restricted element and a second position of a device capturing the captured content comprising the at least one restricted element.

12. The system according to claim 8, the location detector further comprising means for detecting a network address of a website originally comprising the captured content.

13. The system according to claim 8, the captured content rights controller for applying the at least one digital rights management rule with the at least one location based criteria specified by the at least one relevant location to restrict usage of the captured content further comprises:

means for applying the at least one digital rights management rule specified for any content captured within a particular location detected in the at least one relevant location.

14. The system according to claim 8, the captured content rights controller for applying the at least one digital rights management rule with the at least one location based criteria specified by the at least one relevant location to restrict usage of the captured content further comprises:

means for restricting usage of the captured content according to the applied at least one digital rights management rule with the at least one location based criteria specified by the at least one relevant location to at least one of storage of the captured content, use of the captured content by an application, and uploading the captured content to a web service.

15. A program product comprising a storage-type computer-usable medium including a computer-readable program for digital rights management of captured content, wherein the computer-readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to:

analyze captured content to determine whether a portion of the content is subject to digital rights management protection specified for content captured independent of distribution of at least one restricted element within the captured content by an owner of the at least one restricted element;

in response to determining that a portion of the captured content is subject to digital rights management protection, query a database to select at least one digital rights management rule associated with the portion and comprising at least one location based criteria;

detect at least one relevant location associated with the captured content; and

apply the at least one digital rights management rule with the at least one location based criteria specified by the at least one relevant location to restrict usage of the captured content.

16. The program product according to claim 15, wherein the computer-readable program is transmitted over a network.

17. The program product according to claim 15, wherein the computer-readable program when executed on the computer further causes the computer to:

detect a location of an image capture device used for capturing the captured content comprising at least one image of the at least one restricted element.

18. The program product according to claim 15, wherein the computer-readable program when executed on the computer further causes the computer to:

detect a distance between a first position of the at least one restricted element and a second position of a device capturing the captured content comprising the at least one restricted element.

19. The program product according to claim 15, wherein the computer-readable program when executed on the computer further causes the computer to:

detect a network address of a website originally comprising the captured content.

20. The program product according to claim 15, wherein the computer-readable program when executed on the computer further causes the computer to:

apply the at least one digital rights management rule specified for any content captured within a particular location detected in the at least one relevant location.