Method, system, and device for license-centric content consumption
AssigneeContentGuard Holdings, Inc.
InventorsMichael Charles RALEY, Eddie J. CHEN
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Abstract
A method, system, and device for license-centric content use or distribution, including a pre-existing digital rights management (DRM) system having a unique interface to a repository of data thereof to govern use of content; a shared license repository configured to access the data to govern the use of the content and to communicate with the unique interface of the pre-existing DRM system; and a user interface configured to interact with the pre-existing DRM system, and configured to allow the user to send a license associated with the content from the shared license repository to the pre-existing DRM system or to another shared license repository.
Claims16
A license repository device having a computer readable memory with instructions recorded thereon to define modules that carry out functions when executed by a processor, said license repository device being configured to manage one or more licenses on behalf of a user associated with the license repository device, said modules comprising:
- an interface module configured to receive at least one identifier of a permitted use of a user for one or more content titles on at least one instance of a DRM computer system;
- a user input module configured to receive a request from the user for an inventory of at least one content title for which the user has a permitted use on the at least one instance of a DRM computer system;
- a determination module configured to determine a type of the at least one instance of DRM computer system;
- an authentication module configured to authenticate the user as an authenticated user;
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- a license management user interface module configured to generate an inventory of the content titles for which the authenticated user has a permitted use on the at least one instance of a DRM computer system.
A method for managing one or more licenses on behalf of a user associated with a license repository device, said method comprising:
- authenticating a user as an authenticated user;
- receiving at least one identifier of a permitted use of a user for one or more content titles on at least one instance of a DRM computer system;
- receiving a request from the user for an inventory of at least one content title for which the user has a permitted use on the at least one instance of a DRM computer system;
- determining a type of the at least one instance of DRM computer system;
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- generating an inventory of the content titles for which the authenticated user has a permitted use on the at least one instance of a DRM computer system.
A rendering device having a computer readable memory with instructions recorded thereon to define modules that carry out functions when executed by a processor, said rendering device being configured to communicate with at least one license repository device to manage one or more licenses on behalf of a user associated with the rendering device, said license repository device storing at least one identifier of a permitted use of a user for one or more content titles on at least one instance of a DRM computer system, said modules comprising:
- a request module configured to transmit a request to a license repository device for an inventory of at least one content title for which the user has a permitted use on the rendering device as an instance of a DRM system;
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- a license management module configured to receive from the license repository device an inventory of the content titles for which the user has a permitted use on the rendering device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.