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AssigneeIntertrust Technologies Corporation
InventorsVictor H. Shear, David M. Van Wie, Robert P. Weber
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Rights management information is used at least in part in a matching, narrowcasting, classifying and/or selecting process. A matching and classification utility system comprising a kind of Commerce Utility System is used to perform the matching, narrowcasting, classifying and/or selecting. The matching and classification utility system may match, narrowcast, classify and/or select people and/or things, non-limiting examples of which include software objects. The Matching and Classification Utility system may use any pre-existing classification schemes, including at least some rights management information and/or other qualitative and/or parameter data indicating and/or defining classes, classification systems, class hierarchies, category schemes, class assignments, category assignments, and/or class membership. The Matching and Classification Utility may also use at least some rights management information together with any artificial intelligence, expert system, statistical, computational, manual, or any other means to define new classes, class hierarchies, classification systems, category schemes, and/or assign persons, things, and/or groups of persons and/or things to at least one class.
A method including:
A system including
A system including:
A Commerce Utility System providing a secure execution space, the Commerce Utility System performing at least one component based service function including at least one secure component for execution within the secure execution space, the Commerce Utility System including a communications facility permitting communication of secure control information with at least one electronic community participant,
A system or method including:
A class-based system including at least one computer that processes digital information, said system including at least one element that uses at least some rights management information.
A method of operating a class-based system including at least one computer that processes digital information, said method including the step of using at least some rights management information.
A system for assigning at least one thing or person to at least one class including at least one computer that processes digital information, said system including at least one element that uses at least some rights management data in making said assignment.
A system for making and/or using at least one class-based assignment including at least one computer that processes digital information, said system including at least one element that uses at least some rights management information.
A system for clearing at least one transaction including at least one computer that processes digital information, said system including at least one element that uses at least one class defined, assigned, selected, and/or matched based at least in part on rights management information.
A method for authorizing at least one computer and/or computer user including the step of using at least one class defined, assigned, selected, and/or matched based at least in part on rights management information.
A method for authorizing at least one electronic transaction including the step of using at least one class defined, assigned, selected, and/or matched based at least in part on rights management information.
A method for initiating and/or performing at least one at least in part secure electronic transaction including the step of using class related information defined, assigned, selected, and/or matched based at least in part on rights management information.
An information processing method including the steps of:
A method for securely exchanging digital information including the step of at least in part defining, assigning, selecting, and/or matching at least one class based at least in part on rights management information.
A method for performing at least one rights operating system based transaction including the step of defining, assigning, selecting, and/or matching at least one class based at least in part on rights management information.
A method for performing at least one protected processing environment operation including the step of defining, assigning, selecting, and/or matching at least one class based at least in part on rights management information.
A method of pushing information including the steps of classifying recipients and/or information to be sent to said recipients based at least in part on rights management information, and selecting said information to distribute to said recipients based at least in part on said classifying.
A method of pushing information including the steps of classifying recipients and/or information to be sent to said recipients based at least in part on rights management information, and matching at least a portion of said information with at least one class of said recipients based at least in part on said classifying.
A subject switch for matching subscribers and/or recipients desiring information in one or more classes with one or more sources of information, wherein the subject switch matches at least one subscriber and/or participant with at least one information source on a mapping based at least in part on rights management information.
A digital narrowcasting arrangement comprising:
An information distribution system including:
An enterprise information system including a computer system for classifying employees, said system including at least one rights management component that distributes information to the employees based at least in part on employee classification.
A method for conducting a chain of handling and/or control including the steps of allowing plural parties to contribute rules and/or consequences, and performing at least one classification based at least in part on said rules and/or consequences.
A directory services system for classifying confidential information, the system including:
A microsegmented merchandising technique including the steps of performing classification based at least in part on usage data and/or lifestyle profiles, and distributing offers for products and/or services based at least in part on the classification.
A trading network including:
A securities trading method including the step of performing a classification process at least in part using at least one rights management element, and using the classification process to select securities for trade.
A currency/debt trading system including:
A financial institution selection system including a computer that classifies financial institutions based at least in part on rights management information.
A software distribution method including the steps of generating class information based at least in part on rights management information, and selecting software to be distributed and/or recipients who are to receive distributed software based at least in part on class information.
A classification technique including the step of authenticating class membership based at least in part on digital credentials and/or certificates.
A computer system including:
A health care computer system including an arrangement for issuing health care workers, administrators and insurers class-based digital credentials and/or certificates, wherein the digital information sent to said health care workers and administrators includes class-based controls that condition use and/or access to information based at least in part on said class-based digital credentials and/or certificates.
A work process automation system including a matching and/or classification computer that matches tasks to resources based at least in part on assigning classifying the tasks and/or the resources to at least one class.
An automatic governmental and/or societal rights supporting system including a matching and/or classification computing element that assigns and/or classifies entities to at least one class based at least in part on rights management information.
An automatic taxing authority computer including means for issuing tax class control sets based at least in part on taxbased class definitions, and means for using said tax control sets at least in part to collect and/or enforce taxation.
A method for adaptively presenting information differently to different participants, including associating said participants with classes, and controlling presentation based at least in part on class-based control sets included within the information.
A method for adaptively presenting information differently to different participants including:
A method for adaptively presenting information differently to different participants including:
An information searching mechanism including a matching computer element that classifies information based at least in part on rights management information, said computing element including means responsive to user requests to search for information based at least in part on said classification.
An information handling method including the step of using class-based controls to control support extraction and/or aggregation of information.
An information classification method including the step of generating at least one class hierarchy from other plural classification hierarchies based at least in part on rights management information and/or class-based rights management information based at least in part on classification metadata.
An electronic gambling system including a computer that matches gamblers with plural gambling providers based at least in part through classifying the gambling providers using rights management information.
An electronic ticketing system including a computer that matches recipients with tickets to events through classifying said recipients, said system including a computer that matches tickets and/or said events based at least in part on rights management information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.