Digital content download insurance

摘要

Methods, apparatuses, and systems for monitoring a browser's download activity to detect a download event associated with a digital content file, to determine an insurance policy related to the digital content file, and to provide a user with an option to insure the digital content file as described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

主权项

1. An apparatus comprising:
a browser configured to be communicatively coupled to a network; and a download agent coupled to the browser and including
a monitoring element configured to operate contemporaneously with the browserto monitor activity of the browser to detect a download event associated with downloading a digital content file from a content server, wherein the download event is a request sent by the browser to the content server; andan insuring element configured:to send a request, to a download protection (DLP) server, for an insurance policy related to the digital content file, wherein the request for the insurance policy is sent in response to a detection of the download event by the monitoring element and prior to downloading of the digital content file to the apparatus;
to provide a user of the apparatus with an option to insure the digital content file based at least in part on receipt of the insurance policy;to receive, as user input, a selection indicating a desire to insure the digital content file; andto upload, subsequent to a downloading of the digital content file to the apparatus, the digital content file to the download protection server based on receipt of the selection.