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Method and Apparatus for Digital Rights Management

a technology of digital rights and management methods, applied in the field of digital rights management, can solve the problems of affecting the business and affecting the success of digital content owners

Inactive Publication Date: 2016-04-21
INT BUSINESS MASCH CORP
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This solution allows for flexible and scalable digital rights management, enabling multiple DRM agent devices to be registered under a single user account with multiple rights issuers, enhancing the system's applicability to diverse business models by supporting many-to-many relationships and ensuring secure content access.

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However, since digital contents are subject to copy and propagation, digital contents for online transaction are confronted with a large quantity of piracies and infringements, which jeopardize the interests of digital content owners and dampens their enthusiasm for expanding business via the Internet.
It is unreasonable for many business modes, for example, IPTV.

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[0049]Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described hereinafter.

[0050]The basic idea of the present invention is to support the many-to-many relationships among DRM entities in a DRM system, wherein the DRM entities include DRM agent device, user account, rights issuer and the like.

[0051]In the present invention, relationships among user accounts, DRM agent devices and rights issuers are established through registration. Before a user account requests the rights object for a protected content from a rights issuer via a DRM agent device, the user account and the DRM agent device should register to one of a plurality of rights issuers, so that a relationship among the user account, the DRM agent device and the rights issuer can be established in the DRM agent device and the rights issuer. Thus, the rights object for a protected content can be acquired by requesting the rights issuer for the rights object when needed.

[0052]In the present invention, a relationship amo...

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Abstract

A method and apparatus for digital rights management (DRM) with steps and means for receiving a registration request from one of a plurality of DRM agent devices requesting to register one of a plurality of user accounts and the one DRM agent device to one of a plurality of rights issuers, completing a registration process in the one rights issuer, including establishment of a relationship among the one user account, the one DRM agent device and the one rights issuer; and returning a registration completion response to the one DRM agent device. The invention provides support to the many-to-many relationships among DRM entities, such as DRM agent device, user account and rights issuer, so that the DRM system can be applied to more business modes.

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PRIORITY[0001]This application is a divisional of and claims priority from U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13 / 611,394, filed on Sep. 12, 2012, entitled “METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT,” which in turn claims priority from U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11 / 821,985 filed on Jun. 26, 2007, which in turn claims priority from the Chinese patent application 200610094699.8 filed on Jun. 26, 2006, the entire contents of all of the applications listed above are incorporated herein by reference.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]The present invention relates to digital rights management (DRM) and, more particularly, to a method and an apparatus of registering / deregistering a DRM agent device in a DRM system and a DRM agent device.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0003]With the rapid development of the Internet and digitization technologies, there are more and more digital contents for online transaction, such as electronic books, electronic newspapers, music, movies, pictures, games ...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G06F21/10H04L29/06H04L29/08G06F21/31
CPCG06F21/105H04L63/08H04L67/306G06F21/10G06F21/31G06F2221/2101G06F2221/2117G06F2221/2135G06F2221/2137H04L2463/101G06Q20/203
Inventor DANG, YA BINFENG, BOSHAO, LINGYAN, RONG
Owner INT BUSINESS MASCH CORP
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