SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT USING ADVANCED COPY WITH ISSUE RIGHTS, AND MANAGED COPY TOKENS

摘要

A system, method and computer program product for a digital content player having a DRM agent to perform rights management operations on a digital content package, including loading rights management instructions to be executed by the digital content player, the rights management instructions being associated with the digital content package, executing the rights management instructions on the digital content player, and loading supporting licenses associated with the digital content package for processing by the DRM agent. The DRM agent deciding whether to permit the rights management operations requested by the rights management instructions. Further exemplary embodiments include systems, methods and computer program products for associating usage rights with digital content packages, managing of digital rights tokens, managing of digital content packages having predetermined broadcast dates, preserving of usage rights when content is transferred between DRM environments, and distributing content packages.

主权项

1. A method for a digital content player having a DRM agent to perform rights management operations on a digital content package, said method comprising:
receiving, by said digital content player, rights management instructions to be executed by said digital content player, the rights management instructions being associated with said digital content package; executing, by said digital content player, the rights management instructions, the rights management instructions requesting rights management operations and the rights management operations include issuing rights to content; and loading supporting licenses associated with the digital content package for processing by said DRM agent; said DRM agent determining whether to permit said rights management operations requested by the rights management instructions, according to said supporting licenses.