CA2467974A1 - System for tracking end-user electronic content usage - Google Patents

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CA2467974A1
CA2467974A1 CA002467974A CA2467974A CA2467974A1 CA 2467974 A1 CA2467974 A1 CA 2467974A1 CA 002467974 A CA002467974 A CA 002467974A CA 2467974 A CA2467974 A CA 2467974A CA 2467974 A1 CA2467974 A1 CA 2467974A1
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John Dorak
Edgar Downs
George Gregory Gruse
Marco Hurtado
Christopher Lehamn
Jeffrey Lotspiech
Cesar Medina
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A system for tracking usage of digital content on user devices. Electronic stores coupled to a network sell licenses to play digital content data to users. Content players, which receive from the network the licensed content data, are used to play the licensed content data.
Additionally, a logging site that is coupled to the network tracks the playing of the content data. In particular, the logging site receives play information from the network, and the play information includes the number of times that the content data has been played by the associated content player.
Also provided is a method for tracking usage of digital content on user devices. According to the method, a license to play digital content data is sold to a user, and the licensed content data is transmitted to a content player for the user. Further, information is transmitted to a logging site whenever the content data is played by the content player or copied from the content player to an external medium so that usage of the licensed content data can be tracked.

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1. A digital content data player for playing digital content data, said data player comprising a transmitter for transmitting usage information, the usage information being at least one of the occurrence of the playing or copying of the digital content data, the number of times the digital content data was played or copied, the time the digital content data was played or copied, and the identification of a user that plays or copies the digital content data.
2. The data player as defined in claim 1, wherein the digital content data includes digital music data.
3. A system for tracking usage of digital content comprising:
a license to play or copy digital content data;
licensed digital content data; and information on at least one of the occurrence of playing or copying of the licensed digital content data, the number of times the licensed digital content data was played or copied, the time the digital content data was played or copied and the identification of a user that plays or copies the licensed digital content data.
4. The system of claim 3 further comprising prohibiting further playing or copying based on the information.
5. The system in claim 3, wherein the digital content data includes digital music data.
6. The system of claim 3, wherein the information is transmitted at a predetermined time or at a predetermined interval.
7. A computer readable medium containing program instructions for tracking usage of digital content data on user devices, comprising instructions for:

obtaining a license to play or copy digital content data;
accepting the licensed digital content; and transmitting information on at least one of playing of the digital content data, copying of the digital content data, the time the digital content data was played or copied and the identification of a user that plays or copies the digital content data.
8. A digital content data player for playing digital content data stored on a storage device and for providing usage information related to the digital content to a remote site, said data player comprising:
an interface for connecting with a storage device;
a receiver for receiving previously encrypted digital content data which has been encrypted with a first encrypting key, and the receiver receiving a from a clearing house an encrypted first decrypting key which has been encrypted with an encrypting key from the digital content player;
a tamper resistant environment for decrypting the first decrypting key with a decrypting key from the digital content player, wherein the tamper resistant environment forming reencrypted digital content data by reencrypting the digital content data with a locally generated digital content player encrypting key, wherein the previously encrypted digital content has been decrypted with the first decrypting key, and the tamper resistant environment storing the reencrypted digital content on the storage device;
a player coupled to the interface for decrypting and playing the stored reencrypted digital content data and generating usage information describing the reencrypted digital content; and a transmitter for transmitting the usage information to a remote logging site, the usage information informing the remote logging site of at least one of a playing of the reencrypted digital content data by the player and a copying of at least part of the reencrypted digital content data from the storage device to an external medium.
9. The data player as defined in claim 8, wherein the receiver receives the previously encrypted digital content data from a digital content host.
10. The data player as defined in claim 8, wherein the storage device is one of a hard disk, a removable disk, flash memory, and an optical disk.
11. The data player as defined in claim 8, wherein the external medium is one of a compact disc, a DVD disc, a mini-disc, flash memory, and a digital tape.
12. The data player as defined in claim 8, wherein the previously encrypted digital content data includes digital music data.
13. The data player as defined in claim 8, wherein the usage information includes a last time the reencrypted digital content has been played.
14. The data player as defined in claim 8, wherein the usage information includes an identification of the user playing the reencrypted digital content on the data player.
15. A system for remotely tracking usage of digital content on digital content players, said system comprising:
a plurality of electronic stores for granting licenses to play digital content data to users, each electronic store being coupled to a network;
a plurality of content players for playing content data, each digital content player including;
a receiver for receiving from the network previously encrypted digital content data licensed by one of the users, wherein the previously encrypted digital content data which has been encrypted with a first encrypting key, the receiver receiving a from a clearing house an encrypted first decrypting key which has been encrypted with an encrypting key from the digital content player;
a tamper resistant environment for decrypting the first decrypting key with a decrypting key from the digital content player, wherein the tamper resistant environment forming reencrypted digital content data by reencrypting the digital content data with a locally generated digital content player encrypting key, wherein the previously encrypted digital content has been decrypted with the first decrypting key; and a remote logging site coupled to the network for tracking playing of the reencrypted digital content data, wherein the remote logging site receives, from the network, play information from each of the digital content players, the play information for each digital content player including a number of times that the reencrypted digital content data has been played by the digital content player.
16. The system as defined in claim 15, wherein the previously encrypted digital content data includes digital music data.
17. The system as defined in claim 15, further comprising a digital content site coupled to the network, the digital content site sending the previously encrypted digital content data to the to the digital content players.
18. The system as defined in claim 15, wherein the play information also includes a last time the reencrypted digital content has been played.
19. The system as defined in claim 15, wherein the play information also includes an identification of the user playing the reencrypted digital content on the content player.
20. The system as defined in claim 15, wherein each time one of the digital content players plays the reencrypted digital content data, the logging site receives the play information from the one digital content player.
21. A method for remotely tracking usage of digital content on digital content players, said method comprising the steps of:
granting a license to play digital content data to a user on a digital content player;
accepting under the terms of the license, previously encrypted digital content data, wherein the previously encrypted digital content has been encrypted with a first encrypting key;
receiving from a clearing house an encrypted first decrypting key which has been encrypted with an encrypting key from the digital content player;
decrypting, in a tamper resistant environment, the first decrypting key with a decrypting key from the digital content player;
forming reencrypted digital content data by reencrypting the digital content data with a locally generated digital content player encrypting key, wherein the previously encrypted digital content has been decrypted with the first decrypting key; and transmitting information to a remote logging site each time the reencrypted digital content data is at least one of played by the digital content player and copied from the digital content player to an external medium so that usage of the reencrypted digital content data can be tracked.
22. The method as defined in claim 21, further comprising the steps of decrypting and playing the reencrypted digital content data on the digital content player.
23. The method as defined in claim 24, further comprising the step of granting a license to the user by an electronic commerce host.
24. The method as defined in claim 21, further comprising the step of storing the reencrypted digital content data on at least one of a hard disk, flash memory, a removable disk, and an optical disk.
25. The method as defined in claim 24, further comprising the steps of:
copyingthe reencrypted digital content data to an external medium; the external medium being one of a compact disc, a DVD disc, a mini-disc, flash memory, and a digital tape; and transmitting information to the logging site each time the reencrypted digital content data is copied from the digital content player to the external medium.
26. The method as defined in claim 21, wherein the previously digital content data includes digital music data.
27. The method as defined in claim 21, wherein the transmitted information includes a last time the reencrypted digital content has been played.
28. The method as defined in claim 21, wherein the transmitted information includes an identification of the user playing the reencrypted digital content on the content player.
29. A method for remotely tracking usage of digital content on digital content players, said method comprising the steps of accepting a license to play digital content data on a digital content player;
receiving the licensed previously encrypted digital content data to a digital content player for the user, wherein the previously encrypted digital content has been encrypted with a first encrypting key;
receiving from a clearing house an encrypted first decrypting key which has been encrypted with an encrypting key from the digital content player;
decrypting, in a tamper resistant environment, the first decrypting key with a decrypting key from the digital content player;
forming reencrypted digital content data by reencrypting the digital content data with a locally generated digital content player encrypting key, wherein the previously encrypted digital content has been decrypted with the first decrypting key; and logging play information in the digital content player each time the reencrypted digital content data is played by the digital content player; and sending the logged play information to a remote logging site at a predetermined time or at predetermined intervals to enable the tracking of use of the reencrypted digital content data.
30. The method as defined in claim 29, wherein the license is granted to the user by an electronic commerce host.
31. The method as defined in claim 29, further comprising the step of storing the reencrypted digital content data on at least one of a hard disk, a removable disk, flash memory, and an optical disk.
32. The method as defined in claim 30, further comprising the steps of copying the reencrypted digital content data to one of a compact disc, a DVD
disc, a mini-disc, flash memory, and a digital tape;
logging copy information in the digital content player each time the reencrypted digital content data is copied; and sending the logged copy information to the logging site at the predetermined time or at the predetermined intervals.
33. The method as defined in claim 29, wherein the reencrypted digital content data includes digital music data.
34. The method as defined in claim 29, wherein the play information includes a last time the reencrypted digital content has been played.
35. The method as defined in claim 29, wherein the play information includes an identification of the user playing the reencrypted digital content on the content player.
36. A method for remotely tracking usage of digital content on digital content players, said method comprising the steps of:
granting licenses to play digital content data to a plurality of users;
for each user, sending previously encrypted digital content data to a digital content player for the user, wherein the previously encrypted digital content has been encrypted with a first encrypting key;
receiving from a clearing house an encrypted first decrypting key which has been encrypted with an encrypting key from the digital content player;
decrypting, in a tamper resistant environment, the first decrypting key with a decrypting key from the digital content player;
forming reencrypted digital content data by reencrypting the digital content data with a locally generated digital content player encrypting key, wherein the previously encrypted digital content has been decrypted with the first decrypting key; and sending to a remote logging site, play information from each of the digital content players, the play information including the number of times that the reencrypted digital content data has been played by each user for enabling the tracking of usage of the reencrypted digital content data.
37. The method as defined in claim 36, further comprising the step of sending the play information to the logging site at a predetermined time or at predetermined intervals.
38. The method as defined in claim 37, wherein the licenses are granted by electronic commerce hosts.
39. The method as defined in claim 37, further comprising the step of storing the reencrypted digital content data on at least one of a hard disk, a removable disk, and an optical disk.
40. The method as defined in claim 37, further comprising the step of sending to a remote logging site that receives the play information, the play information further includes sending the number of times that the reencrypted digital content data has been copied to an external medium by each user.
41. The method as defined in claim 37, wherein the previously encrypted digital content data includes digital music data.
42. The method as defined in claim 37, wherein the play information includes a last time the reencrypted digital content has been played.
43. The method as defined in claim 37, wherein the play information includes an identification of the user playing the reencrypted digital content on the content player.
44. A computer readable medium containing program instructions for remotely tracking usage of digital content on digital content players, comprising instructions for:

granting a license to play digital content data to a user on a digital content player;
accepting previously encrypted digital content data, wherein the previously encrypted digital content has been encrypted with a first encrypting key;
receiving from a clearing house an encrypted first decrypting key which has been encrypted with an encrypting key from the digital content player;
decrypting, in a tamper resistant environment, the first decrypting key with a decrypting key from the digital content player;
forming reencrypted digital content data by reencrypting the digital content data with a locally generated digital content player encrypting key, wherein the previously encrypted digital content has been decrypted with the first decrypting key; and transmitting information to a remote logging site each time the reencrypted digital content data is at least one of played by the digital content player and copied from the digital content player to an external medium so that usage of the reencrypted digital content data can be tracked.
45. The computer readable medium in claim 44 further comprising the instructions for decrypting and playing the reencrypted digital content data on the digital content player.
46. The computer readable medium in claim 44, wherein the license is granted to the user by an electronic commerce host.
47. The computer readable medium in claim 44, further comprising the step of storing the reencrypted digital content data on at least one of a hard disk, flash memory, a removable disk, and an optical disk.
48. The computer readable medium in claim 47, further comprising instructions for:
copying the reencrypted digital content data to an external medium, the external medium being one of a compact disc, a DVD disc, a mini-disc, flash memory, and a digital tape; and transmitting information to the logging site each time the reencrypted digital content data is copied from the digital content player to the external medium.
49. The computer readable medium in claim 44, wherein the previously encrypted digital content data includes digital music data.
50. The computer readable medium in claim 44, wherein the transmitted information includes a last time the digital content has been played.
51. The computer readable medium in claim 44, wherein the transmitted information includes an identification of the user playing the digital content on the content player.
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