US 2004/0003139 A1 · Secure server plug-in architecture for digital rights management systems

Abstract

Systems and methods for providing digital rights management services are disclosed. Such a system includes a service program that provides a processing framework for performing a digital rights management service, such as publishing or licensing rights managed digital content. A plurality of plug-in components are provided, each of which performs a respective task associated with the digital rights management service. The plug-in components are integrated into the processing framework according to predefined sets of interface rules.

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Dependent claims

A system for providing digital rights management services, the system comprising:

a service program that provides a processing framework for performing a digital rights management service;
and
a plurality of plug-in components, each of which performs a respective task associated with the digital rights management service,
wherein each of the plurality of plug-in components is integrated into the processing framework according to a respective predefined set of interface rules.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

10/185,906Filed 28 Jun 2002

Published

1 Jan 2004

Term ends

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Classification6 codes

H04L 63/0823
For authentication of entities: using certificates
H04L 63/126
Applying verification of the received information: the source of the received data
H04L 2463/062
Additional details relating to network architectures or network communication protocols for network security covered by H04L63/00: applying…
Y10S 707/99933
Database or file accessing: query processing, i.e. searching

Secure server plug-in architecture for digital rights management systems

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Secure server plug-in architecture for digital rights management systems

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Abstract

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