Rights-Aware Content Playlists for Authorized Personalized Playback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Consumers desire to create personalized content clips from digital rights protected content for personal enjoyment or sharing, which often leads to illegal copying and distribution due to lack of access rights, and existing clips reflect editorial preferences rather than consumer choices.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that allows users to create playlists for personalized content compilations with metadata for identified segments, ensuring only accessible content is included, and enables automated rights verification for both the creator and recipients, allowing legal sharing and playback.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If consumers create personalized content clips by copying and distributing digital rights protected content, then consumers can enjoy and share favorite segments quickly, but this leads to illegal copying and distribution violating intellectual property rights
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a content management system that acts as an intermediary between consumers and digital rights protected content. This system includes a rights management server that verifies licensing information and an entitlement database that stores access rights, enabling consumers to legally create and share personalized clips without direct copying of protected content.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary verification of consumer entitlement and content licensing status before allowing clip creation. The rights management server checks licensing information in advance, and the system only enables clip generation when proper rights are confirmed, preventing illegal distribution before it occurs.
2Adaptability or versatility
If consumers create personalized content clips with their own selections, then consumers gain artistic freedom and personalization, but existing legal clips reflect editorial preferences rather than consumer choices
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables consumers to independently select and create their own personalized content clips by identifying favorite segments from digital rights protected content. The system provides tools for consumers to denote and string together their chosen segments, allowing them to create customized clips according to their own preferences rather than relying on editorially produced content.
Solution Approach 2:
The content management system serves as a mediator that facilitates consumer-created personalization while ensuring legal compliance. It verifies rights information and manages entitlements automatically, allowing consumers to freely personalize clips without manually handling the complexity of rights management.
3Reliability
If the system verifies rights information for each content segment, then intellectual property protection is ensured, but this increases system complexity and processing requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary verification of licensing information and entitlement status before allowing clip creation or distribution. The rights management server checks rights information in advance and stores verification results, so that subsequent operations can proceed without repeated complex verification processes.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent divides the rights verification process into separate functional components: a rights management server for verifying licensing information, an entitlement database for storing access rights, and a content management system for coordinating operations. This segmentation allows each component to handle specific verification tasks independently, reducing overall system complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A system for performing digital rights protected content playing includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a software code. The hardware processor executes the software code to receive, from a first user, metadata identifying one or more content segment(s), determine whether the first user has a right to access the content segment(s), produce a playlist using the metadata when the first user has the right, and output the playlist to the first user and/or a second user. The hardware processor may further execute the software code to receive the playlist from the second user, determine each content segment identified by the playlist that the second user has a right to access, generate a content compilation that omits any content segment identified by the playlist to which the second user lacks the right, and playout the content compilation to the second user.