Interoperable digital rights management
AssigneeDisney Enterprises, Inc.
InventorsArnaud Robert, Scott Watson, Jeffrey Lotspiech
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Abstract
The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a method and/or system for enabling access to media content using different digital rights management formats.
Claims12
A method for use by an authorization server to provide a client device access to an encrypted version of a media content in a media disc using a particular digital rights management (DRM) format of a plurality of DRM formats, the server including the plurality of DRM formats for supporting various encrypted versions of said media content, the method comprising:
- receiving product information associated with the media disc and the client device;
- using the product information associated with the media disc and the client device to locate a key associated with the particular DRM format among the plurality of DRM formats supported by the server, wherein the particular DRM format is compatible with the client device for decrypting the encrypted version of the media content using the key;
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- providing the key associated with the particular DRM format to the client device for decrypting the encrypted version of the media content using the key.
An authorization server for providing a client device access to an encrypted version of a media content in a media disc using a particular digital rights management (DRM) format of the plurality of DRM formats, the authorization server comprising:
- a memory including the plurality of DRM formats for supporting various encrypted versions of said media content;
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- a computing platform configured to:
- receive the product information associated with the media disc and the client device;
- use the product information associated with the media disc and the client device to locate a key associated with the particular DRM format among the plurality of DRM formats supported by the server, wherein the particular DRM format is compatible with the client device for decrypting the encrypted version of the media content using the key;
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- provide the key associated with the particular DRM format to the client device for decrypting the encrypted version of the media content using the key.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.