Personalized Data Store for Digital Object Transfer and Rights Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
The challenge lies in enabling users to transfer digital objects while maintaining scarcity and adhering to digital rights management, as digital objects can be easily copied and sold, leading to issues with the first sale doctrine and license obligations.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for placing digital objects in a personalized data store, allowing permissible transfers through direct or indirect placement, with thresholds to limit moves and downloads, ensuring compliance with licensing requirements and maintaining scarcity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If digital objects are transferred to personalized data stores, then accessibility and security are improved, but scarcity and digital rights management are compromised due to easy copying
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a personalized data store as an intermediary between the user's device and the digital object source. This intermediary maintains controlled access to digital objects, allowing users to access and transfer objects while the system tracks and enforces licensing terms, thereby preserving scarcity through centralized management rather than physical control
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms by tracking transfer history, licensing terms, and usage rights of digital objects. The personalized data store monitors each transfer and provides feedback to enforce digital rights management rules, ensuring that scarcity is maintained through active monitoring and control of object distribution
2Ease of operation
If digital objects are transferred multiple times, then ease of operation is improved, but compliance with licensing requirements becomes difficult to maintain
Solution Approach 1:
The personalized data store automatically manages licensing compliance without requiring user intervention. The system self-services by tracking transfer counts, monitoring licensing terms, and automatically enforcing restrictions, thereby maintaining compliance while allowing easy operation for users who don't need to understand the complex licensing rules
Solution Approach 2:
The personalized data store acts as a mediator that handles the complexity of licensing compliance between the user and the digital object source. It manages transfer permissions, tracks usage rights, and enforces licensing terms, allowing users to operate easily while compliance is maintained through the intermediary's control
3Quantity of substance
If digital rights management is enforced, then scarcity is maintained, but ease of transfer is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The personalized data store serves as an intermediary that manages digital rights management enforcement. It handles the complexity of DRM rules, transfer tracking, and licensing verification in the background, allowing users to transfer objects easily while scarcity is maintained through the intermediary's automated control mechanisms
Data Source
AI summary
An electronic marketplace for used digital objects is disclosed. Digital objects including e-books, audio, video, computer applications, etc., may be placed in a personalized data store upon purchase from a merchant. Placement may be manual or occur automatically. A server prompt or downloader application may be used to set preferences for manual or automatic placement. Placement may be direct or indirect. Direct placement occurs upon placement of the digital object in the personalized data store directly by the merchant. Indirect placement occurs upon transfer of the digital object to an intermediate storage location, such as the user's electronic device, then placing the digital object in the personalized data store. The user, via streaming, download, or other transfer, may then access content placed in the personalized data store.