Digital rights management provision apparatus, system, and method
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsNam-Geol Lee, Hyung-Chan Kim, Gyu-Baek Kim
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Abstract
Provided is digital rights management (DRM) provision technology, and more particularly, are an apparatus, system, and method which can easily provide content using one or more DRM systems. A DRM provision apparatus includes a content download unit which downloads encrypted real content and dummy content from a download server and which manages the downloaded real content and dummy content; a license management unit which manages a license issued by a license server; and a processing unit which manages the downloaded real content and dummy content and the issued license.
Claims11
A Digital Rights Management (DRM) provision system comprising:
- a packaging server which performs a first packaging process and a second packaging process on unencrypted real content and which generates encrypted real content and dummy content respectively;
- a download server which downloads the encrypted real content and the dummy content;
- a license server which generates and issues a license for the encrypted real content;
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- a DRM provision apparatus which receives and manages the encrypted real content, the dummy content, and the license.
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