Digital Rights Management Server Transaction Right Automation
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Solution Overview
Problem
The resale of digital content items is not feasible without a concrete solution for managing the right to resell, as content providers need to set and record numerous restrictions for different digital content items and utilization rights, which is cumbersome and costly.
Innovation Solution
A method for managing transaction rights in a digital rights management server, where transaction rights are generated based on pre-stored rules and attributes of digital content items, allowing for flexible and dynamic restriction settings, including restrictions on transaction times, frequency, geographic area, and price, without requiring individual setting for each item.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If content providers individually set and record transaction rights for each digital content item, then the management of resale rights becomes precise and controlled, but the work量和 database requirements become tremendous and costly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the transaction right management into two distinct components: utilization rights (what users can do with the content) and transaction rights (what users can do with the resale). This segmentation allows the system to manage each type of right independently, reducing the complexity of managing all rights individually for each content item.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal transaction right structure that can be applied across different digital content items. By defining a standardized set of transaction right attributes (transaction times, geographic restrictions, price ranges, etc.) that can be configured through metadata and rules, the system achieves consistent management across diverse content without requiring custom solutions for each item.
2Adaptability or versatility
If content providers set different transaction rights for different utilization rights of the same digital content item, then the control over resale becomes flexible and precise, but the complexity of setting and recording rights increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic transaction right management where rights are not statically assigned but generated based on metadata attributes and predefined rules. The system dynamically determines transaction rights by evaluating content attributes (genre, author, publication date) against stored rules, allowing flexible configuration without manual setting for each utilization right.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameters of transaction rights based on metadata attributes of the digital content. By using attributes such as content genre, author, publication date, and other metadata fields, the system automatically adjusts transaction right parameters (transaction times, geographic restrictions, price ranges) according to predefined rules, eliminating the need for manual configuration.
3Productivity
If the system supports a huge number of digital content items and utilization rights, then the coverage and scalability improve, but the individual setting and recording of rights becomes prohibitively expensive
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses metadata and predefined rules as templates to generate transaction rights for numerous digital content items. Instead of manually creating unique rights for each item, the system copies and adapts standardized right structures through automated rule evaluation, dramatically reducing the cost and effort of managing rights across large volumes of content.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a self-service mechanism where the system automatically generates and manages transaction rights without requiring manual intervention for each digital content item. The automated rule-based system evaluates metadata and assigns appropriate transaction rights independently, reducing labor costs and enabling scalable management of vast content libraries.
Data Source
AI summary
This invention provides a method for managing a transaction right in a digital rights management server. The transaction right is the right to a transaction of a utilization right of a digital content item. The method comprises steps of obtaining an attribute associated with the digital content item from metadata of the digital content item; and generating the transaction right on the basis of a pre-stored rule and the attribute of the digital content item. Since the transaction right is generated on the basis of the attribute of the digital content item, or in other words, the transaction right is dependent on the attribute of the digital content item, the generated transaction right of digital content items can be different if the corresponding attribute associated with the digital content items are different. Furthermore, in additional to the metadata, the generation of the transaction right only requires the pre-stored rule, resulting in affordable complexity and cost. Since the transaction right is also dependent on the pre-stored rule, the content providers need not to individually set the transaction right for each digital content item, but are still able to set the transaction right by setting the pre-stored rule.