Geolocation-Independent Content Rights Management via Device Registration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing content rights management systems rely on geolocation to control access to content, limiting users' flexibility in accessing content across different devices and locations, while also restricting content providers' ability to fulfill obligations to content owners and control content distribution.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a geolocation-independent content rights management system that allows content providers to register and authenticate devices, enabling access to content based on digital rights management policies, regardless of the device's location, by using tokens and persistence policies to manage access and ensure compliance with content owner restrictions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If geolocation-based content rights management is used, then content providers can control content access by location, but users lose flexibility to access content across different devices and locations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the geolocation restriction into two parts: the account remains associated with a home geolocation, but multiple content access devices can be registered to that account. This allows the geolocation control to be maintained at the account level while enabling device-level flexibility, resolving the contradiction between reliable content control and user access versatility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces registered content access devices as intermediaries between the user's home geolocation account and external access points. These registered devices act as mediators that enable users to access content from various locations without directly exposing the geolocation restriction, thus maintaining control reliability while improving access flexibility.
2Ease of operation
If multiple devices are allowed to access content, then user convenience improves, but content provider control over content distribution weakens
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary registration of content access devices with the content provider system before users can access content. This advance registration process establishes control rules and policies upfront, allowing multiple devices to be convenient for users while maintaining the content provider's ability to control and monitor content distribution through pre-configured restrictions.
3Reliability
If content access is restricted to home geolocation, then content owner obligations are met, but users cannot access content when traveling
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a virtual copy of the home geolocation access rights through registered devices. Instead of requiring physical presence at the home geolocation, the system copies the content access permissions to registered devices, allowing users to access content anywhere while the account maintains its association with the original home geolocation for compliance with content owner obligations.
Data Source
AI summary
An electronic device for providing geolocation independent content rights management includes a non-transitory storage medium and a processing unit. The processing unit executes instructions stored in the non-transitory storage medium to receive a request for content from a content access device and, if the content access device is registered to an account associated with a geolocation, provides access to the content. In some implementations, the processing unit may determine if the content access device is registered using a token corresponding to the request. In various implementations, the processing unit may verify that one or more digital rights management and/or persistence policies allow the access, such as where access may be provided to one copy of the content at a time.