System and method for federated rights management
OwnerScott Andrew Irwin, Robert Dennis Birch +2inventors
InventorsScott Andrew Irwin, Robert Dennis Birch, Joseph Paul Lupo, Stephen DeWayne Weagraff
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Abstract
A system is disclosed for a digital rights management system which enforces license rights by establishing an account domain of registered consumer devices which may each receive a decryption key to be used to decode digital content bought by any of the devices within the account domain. Such system further enables the decentralization of content sharing by establishing a network of trusted intermediate devices to manage licenses on end devices for a central rights provider.
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An electronic system for managing distribution of digital content comprising:
- a. an electronic central rights provider;
- b. an electronic intermediate rights provider;
- c. at least one electronic consumer device;
- wherein
- said central rights provider that grants and transmit an electronic master license to said intermediate rights provider wherein said master license includes a right to create a child license for a set of digital content associated with said master license for transmission to said at least one electronic consumer device;
- said intermediate rights provider that establishes an account domain comprising at least said consumer device wherein said consumer device registers with said intermediate rights provider by transmitting an identifier and a set of security credentials to said intermediate rights provider;
- said intermediate rights provider that creates and transmit a unique account key to each of said registered consumer devices in a given account domain;
- said intermediate rights provider that recieves a request for a set of digital content from a first registered consumer device;
- said intermediate rights provider that creates an electronic child license according to said request and within a set of parameters dictated by said master license;
- said intermediate rights provider that combines at least said child license, a set of account data associated with said first registered device requesting content, and said digital content in a digital rights package;
- said intermediate rights provider that encrypts said digital rights package by using said account key;
- said intermediate rights provider that transmits said encrypted package to said requesting device;
- said intermediate rights provider that processes a charge associated with said request using said account data associated with said requesting device;
- and
- said intermediate rights provider that transmits a set of settlement data associated with said charge to said central rights provider.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.