US 2002/0186843 A1 · System and method for a commercial multimedia rental and distribution system

Abstract

A system and method for securing intellectual property rights in distributed intellectual property. The present invention grants and polices rights in electronically distributed intellectual property. Use limitations are established by agreement by the content provider and the client. The use limitations are reflected in time-based, usage-based and player based component codes that are used to determine if the client is entitled to use the intellectual property. The present invention further protects the intellectual property from unauthorized use by encrypting the intellectual property with a key created from some or all of the component codes. As the component codes are known to both the client and the content provider, no key exchange is required by the present invention.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A method for securing intellectual property distributed electronically comprising:

receiving an intellectual property product wherein the intellectual property product further comprises content data and rights data in digital form;
storing the intellectual property product on a player, the player further comprising a player data record and wherein the player data record comprises component codes;
comparing the rights data and the player data record to determine entitlement to play the content data;
and
playing the content data on the player if entitlement has been determined.

2 more elements

A system for securing intellectual property distributed electronically comprising:

a network;
a player connected to the network, the player comprising a processor, a storage device connected to the processor, and memory;
the storage device further comprising a player data record;
the player data record further comprising component codes;
and
the memory including software instructions, the software instructions comprising instructions for:
receiving over the network an intellectual property product wherein the intellectual property product further comprises content data and rights data in digital form;
storing the intellectual property product in the storage device, comparing the rights data and the player data record to determine entitlement to play the content data;
and
playing the content data on the player if entitlement has been determined.

7 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

10/155,582Filed 23 May 2002

Priority

23 May 2001

Published

12 Dec 2002

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

G06Q 20/1235
Shopping for digital content: with control of digital rights management [DRM]
G06F 21/10
Security arrangements for protecting computers, components thereof, programs or data against unauthorised activity: protecting distributed…
G06Q 30/06
Commerce: buying, selling or leasing transactions
G07F 17/0014
Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services: for vending, access and use of specific services not covered anywhere…

System and method for a commercial multimedia rental and distribution system

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System and method for a commercial multimedia rental and distribution system

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Abstract

Claims19