Apparatus and method for digital home domain management
AssigneeElectronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
InventorsDo-Won NAM, Yeon Jeong Jeong, Jee Hyun Park, Jung Soo Lee, Jung Hyun Kim, Kisong Yoon
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Abstract
An apparatus for digital home domain management includes a home domain server which manages in one user domain all user terminals within a home group and provides each user terminal with a domain license in contents; and a DRM coupler which provides the contents and domain licenses converted to conform to a DRM type loaded in user terminals if contents sharing is requested among user terminals loaded with different DRMs within the home group.
Claims18
An apparatus for digital home domain management, comprising:
- a home domain server which manages in one user domain all user terminals within a home group and provides each user terminal with a domain license in contents;
- and
- a DRM coupler which provides said contents and domain licenses converted to conform to a DRM type loaded in user terminals if contents sharing is requested among user terminals loaded with different DRMs within said home group.
A method for digital home domain management, comprising:
- managing in one user domain all user terminals within a home group;
- converting a license in contents that was purchased for one of said user terminals in order to conform to each user terminal with a domain license issued for said user domain;
- converting said contents to conform to each DRM type if contents sharing is requested among user terminals loaded with different DRMs;
- and
- providing said converted domain license and contents for each user terminal within said home group.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.