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AssigneeKoninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
InventorsHong Li, Milan Petkovic, Eric Wilhelmus Josephus Moors, Albert Maria Arnold Rijckaert, Roland Peter Jan Mathijs Manders
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The present invention relates to a method and a device of enabling inheritance of a digital content item. There is provided a method and a device by which inheritance of a digital content item is enabled by means of acquiring an inheritance license for an encrypted digital content item. The inheritance license specifies operations that are allowed to be performed on the content item after the death of its proprietor. Further, a death certificate of the proprietor of the encrypted content item is accessed, wherein authorization is given to perform at least a subset of the operations specified in the inheritance license on the encrypted content item.
A method of enabling inheritance of a digital content item, comprising:
The method according to 12, wherein the ownership license specifies operations that are allowed to be performed on the content item after the death of its current proprietor and the ownership license further provides an identity of a new intended inheritor of said encrypted content item.
A device for enabling inheritance of a digital content item, comprising:
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