DISTRIBUTING PROTECTED CONTENT

摘要

A method apparatus and media for distributing protected content. An exemplary embodiment, including receiving a selection of content, packaging the selected content to generate packaged content, encrypting the packaged content to generate an encrypted content package, transmitting the encrypted content package to a content server, receiving content location information corresponding to the location of the encrypted content package on the content server, receiving a selection of one or more rights, combining the one or more rights with the content location information to generate a rights package including the content location information, transmitting the rights package to a license server, receiving license location information corresponding to the location of the rights package on the license server, and distributing the license location information.

主权项

1. An apparatus for accessing protected contents, wherein each of the protected contents is configured to be governed by a license server in a plurality of possible license servers, the apparatus comprising:
one or more processors; and one or more memories operatively coupled to at least one of the one or more processors and having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by at least one of the one or more processors, cause at least one of the one or more processors to:
receive license location information corresponding to a rights package, the rights package being stored on a license server system and comprising a data structure including content location information and one or more usage rights, wherein the content location information corresponds to a location of an encrypted content package;transform the license location information to generate transformed license location information, wherein the transformed license location information includes identity information that identifies at least one aspect of the apparatus;determine a license server system indicated by the license location information from a plurality of license server systems;transmit the transformed license location information to the license server system, wherein the identity information included in the transformed license location information is configured to be utilized by the license server system to determine whether the apparatus can be trusted to honor a usage license;receive a usage license from the license server system including the content location information and the one or more usage rights based at least in part on a determination that the apparatus can be trusted to honor the usage license;retrieve the encrypted content package based on the content location information; andrender content in the encrypted content package in accordance with the one or more usage rights.