MESH NETWORK WITH DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT INTEROPERABILITY

摘要

A wireless mesh network with digital rights management (DRM) interoperability is disclosed. A first DRM-capable mesh point (MP) performs a discovery procedure for detecting neighbor MPs and identifies at least one other DRM-capable MP among the detected neighbor MPs. The first DRM-capable MP then performs an association procedure only with the DRM-capable MPs. The first DRM-capable MP assigns DRM roles to the associated DRM-capable MPs. A digital content is then distributed from the first DRM-capable MP to another DRM-capable MP via the mesh network. The DRM interoperability may be based on a networked environment for media orchestration (NEMO) architecture proposed by the Coral Consortium or any DRM interoperability architectures.