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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsYa Bin Dang, Bo Feng, Ling Shao, Rong Yan
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A method and apparatus for digital rights management (DRM) with steps and means for receiving a registration request from one of a plurality of DRM agent devices requesting to register one of a plurality of user accounts and the one DRM agent device to one of a plurality of rights issuers, completing a registration process in the one rights issuer, including establishment of a relationship among the one user account, the one DRM agent device and the one rights issuer; and returning a registration completion response to the one DRM agent device. The invention provides support to the many-to-many relationships among DRM entities, such as DRM agent device, user account and rights issuer, so that the DRM system can be applied to more business modes.
A method for digital rights management (DRM) by a server having at least one processing device, comprising the steps of:
A method for digital rights management (DRM) for a computer having at least one processing device comprising the steps of:
A tangible computer program product storage medium for storing computer program codes in a computer readable form thereon so as to enable the computer system to execute the computer program codes to implement a method for digital rights management (DRM), said method comprising the steps of:
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