Accessibility content copyright permission

• US 9,183,548 B2
• Filed: 03/06/2008
• Issued: 11/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ServiceNow Incorporated
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Dutta, Rabindranath, Hartley, John C., Schwerdtfeger, Richard Scott
• Primary Examiner(s): Hewitt, II, Calvin L
• Assistant Examiner(s): SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN
• Application Number:
  US12/043,922
• Publication Number:
  US 20080155650A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,805 Days
• Field of Search: 705 51- 59
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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:

a portal server computer, comprising one or more portal processors, one or more nonvolatile portal storage devices accessible by said one or more portal processors, and a portal memory accessible by said one or more portal processors, the portal memory storing a set of instructions that, when executed by at least one of said one or more portal processors, cause at least one of said one or more portal processors to perform actions of;

receiving, by the portal server computer, a content request from a client, the content request including user data;

sending the content request from the portal server computer to a content provider;

receiving content by the portal server computer from the content provider;

determining, by the portal server computer, that the content is copyrighted electronic content;

sending a copyright request from the portal server computer to a copyright server computer, wherein the copyright request includes a content identifier, the content identifier corresponding to the copyrighted electronic content;

sending an authorization request for a transcoding fee from the portal server computer to an accounting server computer;

receiving, by the portal server computer, permission from the accounting server computer to transcode the content; and

transcoding, by the portal server computer, the copyrighted electronic content from a visual presentation form to an audible presentation form in response to receiving permission from the accounting server computer; and

a copyright server computer, comprising one or more copyright processors, one or more nonvolatile copyright storage devices accessible by said one or more copyright processors, and a copyright memory accessible by said one or more copyright processors, the copyright memory storing a set of instructions that, when executed by at least one of said one or more copyright processors, cause at least one of said one or more copyright processors to perform actions of;

identifying, by the copyright server computer, a content owner corresponding to the copyrighted electronic content;

in response to the identifying, sending a permission request from the copyright server computer to the content owner to transcode the copyrighted electronic content;

receiving a permission response from the content owner by the copyright server computer in response to the permission request, the permission response including a content transcoding permission to transcode the copyrighted electronic content and a fee structure; and

sending the permission response from the copyright server computer to the portal server computer.

2. The information handling system as described in claim 1 further comprising:

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

identifying permission rights based upon the matching.

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

4. The information handling system as described in claim 3 further comprising:

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

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

identifying a time limit corresponding to the permission rights; and

assigning a permission expiration data corresponding to the time limit.

6. A method comprising:

receiving, by a portal server computer, a content request from a client, the content request including user data;

sending the content request by the portal server computer to a content provider;

receiving content by the portal server computer from the content provider;

determining, by the portal server computer, that the content is copyrighted electronic content;

sending a copyright request by the portal server computer to a copyright server computer, wherein the copyright request includes a content identifier, the content identifier corresponding to the copyrighted electronic content;

sending an authorization request for a transcoding fee by the portal server computer to an accounting server computer;

receiving, by the portal server computer, permission from the accounting server computer to transcode the content;

transcoding, by the portal server computer, the copyrighted electronic content from a visual presentation form to an audible presentation form in response to receiving permission from the accounting server computer;

identifying, by the copyright server computer, a content owner corresponding to the copyrighted electronic content;

in response to the identifying, sending a permission request from the copyright server computer to the content owner to transcode the copyrighted electronic content;

receiving a permission response from the content owner by the copyright server computer in response to the permission request, the permission response including a content transcoding permission to transcode the copyrighted electronic content and a fee structure; and

sending the permission response from the copyright server computer to the portal server computer.

7. The method as described in claim 6, further comprising:

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

identifying permission rights based upon the matching.

8. The method as described in claim 6 wherein the permission response includes permission rights.

9. The method as described in claim 8, further comprising:

storing the permission rights on a local permission storage area.

10. The method as described in claim 9, further comprising:

identifying a time limit corresponding to the permission rights; and

assigning a permission expiration date corresponding to the time limit.