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Abstract
Processes and systems for offering and granting digital rights that govern distribution and usage of content, services and resources. The processes and systems provide a basis for flexible business models and negotiation transactions between content providers and users. The concept of meta-rights, which permit digital rights to be derived, permits upstream parties in a content distribution chain to dictate rights granted and received by downstream parties. Therefore, each transaction can be considered as a two party transaction between a rights supplier and a rights consumer.
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The copyright notice item
Part during this patent discloses comprises the data that belongs to copyright protection.The copyright owner does not oppose to occur any facsimile copy spare of patent document or patent announcement in patent and trademark office patent document or archives, but keeps all suchlike copyrights under other situation.
Invention field
The present invention relates to be used for a kind of method and system of digitizing managing entitlement, relate in particular to a kind of method and system, be used for automatically providing and permitting right by communication network or other channel.
Background of invention
The digitizing age has increased the stake of entitlement, visit and control aspect about copyright information, restricted services and valuable resource widely.Development has fast taken place and applied widely for computing machine and other electronic installation such as cell phone, pager, PDA (personal digital assistant) and E-book reader, and these devices interconnect by the communication link that comprises the Internet, intranet and other network.The device of these interconnection helps to come published content, service is provided and obtains available resources by electronic method especially.
Hinder the digitizing works (promptly, go out document or other content of form by computer-readable) pass through electronically, particularly by the Internet, a sixty-four dollar question of widely disseminating is the current ability that lacks pressure content owner's intellecture property in the distribution of digitizing works with between the operating period.Be the term definition of the achievement that addresses this problem " intellectual property right management " (" IPRM "), " digitizing intellectual property right management " (" DPRM "), " intellectual property right management " (" IPM "), " managing entitlement " (" RM ") and " electronic copyright management " (" ECM "), be referred to as " digitizing managing entitlement (DRM) " here.In realizing the DRM system, consider many problems.For example, should be devoted to evaluation, mandate, charging, payment and financial liquidation, right stipulation, rights verification, right pressure and document protection problem.United States Patent (USP) 5,530,235,5,634,012,5,715,403,5,638,443 and 5,629,980 disclose the DRM system be devoted to these problems, and the announcement of quoting these patents here is as a reference.
Two basic DRM schemes have been used, safety container and system trusty." safety container " (or simply, encrypted document) provides encryption that a kind of method keeps document content up to meeting one group of authorising conditional and fulfiling some copyright project (for example, paying for use).Providing with document after device verifies various conditions and fund, by form (clear form) expressly to user's published document.Such as Cryptolopes
TMAnd Digiboxes
TMAnd so on commercial product belong to this classification.Clearly; a solution of protection document during secure container approach is provided at and transmits on the dangerous channel, but do not provide any mechanism to prevent that legal users from obtaining the plaintext document and violating content owner's intellecture property then and distribute expressly document again.
In " system trusty " method, total system is responsible for preventing unwarranted use and distributing documents.Usually set up system trusty and need introduce novel hardware such as safe processor, safe storage and safe reproducer.This requires also to guarantee that all application softwares that make at system uplink trusty all are trusty.Though set up a system trusty that prevents to distort and be the real challenge to prior art, the trend suggestion of current market will become the main system that visits the digitizing works such as PC (personal computer) that uses browser access WWW (Web) and the open and fly-by-night system the workstation.In this sense, be equipped with popular operating system (for example, Windows
TM, Linux
TMAnd UNIX) and the reproduction application such as browser be not system trusty such as existing computing environment such as PC and workstations, and their structure is not carried out great change and just can not become trusty.Certainly, the initial purpose of WWW has been broken in the change of structure, that is, and and dirigibility and compatibility.
Some DRM system allows the content owner to stipulate to use right and condition, and they are associated with content.These use the recipient of right control content can how to use content.Usually finished for after the selection of certain content and ordering content distributor or consumer, give the recipient distribution of contents from some content resource storehouse by the electronics mode, or by traditional distribution channel for distribution, such as the tangible medium that send by common carrier, give the recipient distribution of contents.The corresponding D RM system that uses of recipient's (for example, distributor or consumer) right and condition that decipher is associated with content then, and use them to control and how to distribute and/or use content.The example of use right comprises watches, prints and extract content, and distributes, re-assemblies and borrow or lend money content.The condition that is associated can comprise any, can be according to these any Xiang Erding such as rights such as payment, identification, time cycles.
United States Patent (USP) 5,634,012 discloses a kind of system, is used for the distribution of control figure document.Each reproducer has the resources bank that is associated with it.Use right for the pressure that is associated with document, use the predetermined group of agreement that the definition resources bank uses of transaction step.Use right to exist with document content.Use right can allow various use-patterns, such as only watch, use once, distribution etc.Use right to decide with payment or other condition.
Yet, there is the restriction be associated with above-mentioned example, wherein other conferrer of content owner or right only stipulates the use right and the condition that are associated with content.In case the final user has bought, the consumer of content and its use right and condition or distributor be the next recipient's transmission in distribution chain legally just.In addition, the use right that is associated does not provide proscribed rights to derive other right, that is, make amendment, transmit, provide, permit, obtain, transmit, represent, follow the tracks of, abandon, exchange, transmit, the right of utilization, abolishment etc.The public content distribution module generally includes many grade distributions and uses chain.For all participants along distribution of contents and use chain, known DRM system does not promote its ability to come proscribed rights and condition.Therefore, the content owner is difficult in the commercial content of utilizing, and all there is relation in each group that removes in nonowners and the distribution chain.
Brief summary of the invention
A first aspect of the present invention is a kind of method, is used to transmit the adaptive use right that will be associated with project.Described method comprises by the supplier and produces at least one use right that comprises project and surmount first of right (meta-rights) and provide, a kind of use-pattern of described use right defined item purpose, the described right stipulation right that surmounts uses right or other to surmount right to derive, described providing presented first consumer, reception from first consumer, the desired use right of expression and a selection surmounting right, and produce first consumer permitted desired use right and surmounts first licence of right.
A second aspect of the present invention is a kind of system, is used to transmit the adaptive use right that will be associated with project, and described project will obtain licence in the multistage passage of the distribution with the downstream right of distributing by at least one grade and condition.Described system comprises supplier's parts, and it comprises supplier's Subscriber Interface Module SIM, be used to produce and comprise resources bank, the supplier's management database that the right that generator module is provided, is used to constitute the licence rough draft of using right at least and surmounting that of right provides constitutes device module and supplier's right.System further comprises consumer's parts, and it comprises consumer's Subscriber Interface Module SIM, be configured to analyze that supplier's parts produce provides and select resources bank, the consumer's management database that the right of considering module and consumer is provided that provide according to analyzing.
A third aspect of the present invention is a kind of method, for the management of digitized content use and distribute at least one, the licence of the digitized content that generation will will be used in system.Described method comprises presents the consumer comprising that of surmounting right provides, receive by the consumer in providing at least one surmounted the selection of right, according to select producing licence, wherein licence allows the consumer that at least one is surmounted right to use and allow the consumer to provide from least one and surmount the right of at least one derivation that right derives and the licence of the right that generation comprises at least one derivation.
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To be described in detail with reference to the attached drawings example embodiment of the present invention, wherein:
Fig. 1 is the synoptic diagram of three grades of models of distribution of contents;
Fig. 2 is a synoptic diagram, and the right that provides and authorize process in the model of Fig. 1 is described;
Fig. 3 (a) is used to produce, send the synoptic diagram that pushes away model (push model) with the simple supplier-consumer of exercise the right;
Fig. 3 (b) is used to produce, send the synoptic diagram that pushes away model (push model) with the simple supplier-consumer of exercise the right;
Fig. 4 is the block scheme that provides-authorize structure according to the right of preferred embodiment;
Fig. 5 a and 5b be have respectively push away and the right supplier of draw model and right consumer between workflow diagram with the example of vest right is provided;
Fig. 6 is the process flow diagram that production process is provided according to the right of preferred embodiment;
Fig. 7 is the process flow diagram that the consideration process is provided according to the right of preferred embodiment;
Fig. 8 is the process flow diagram that customization procedure is provided according to the right of preferred embodiment;
Fig. 9 can get in touch preferred embodiment and the block scheme of the DRM system that uses;
Figure 10 is the block scheme that comprises the use right of preferred embodiment and surmount the licence example structure of right; And
Figure 11 is the illustrative of the right label of preferred embodiment.
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Before the detailed description that is provided for providing with the equipment of vest right and method, at first describe to be used for to specific content, service or other project specifies and to force the explanation using right and surmount the DRM system of right below.
Fig. 9 illustrates DRM system 10, and this DRM system 10 comprises the user's driver unit that forms excitation server 20, and user's driver unit 20 is right public keys and private key by shielded mode, or other recognition mechanism sends to content user, as everyone knows.Generally, when the user used DRM system 10 for the first time, user installation software, this software were worked with the reproduction application of particular content format or are comprised the reproduction application of particular content format.Install software in client environment 30 (for example, the computing machine that is associated with content reception person).Software is the part of DRM 10 systems, and is used for carrying out the use right of protected content.During the process of motivation, some information of exchange between excitation server 20 and client environment 30.Client components 60 preferably prevents to distort, and comprises both privately and publicly owned's set of cipher key and other parts that excitation server 20 sends, for example, and such as reappearing parts.
Right label 40 is associated with content 42, when satisfying corresponding condition, stipulates the available use right of recipient (that is the consumer of right) and surmounts right.License server 50 managing cryptographic keys and the licence 52 that sends protected content 42.52 couples of final users of licence implement to comprise the actual allowance of using right and surmounting the right of right.For example, right provides 40 can allow the user to come view content and come print What with ten dollars expense with five dollars expense, or it can allow the user that right is offered another user, for example, and by utilizing the following notion that surmounts right.When paying five dollars of expenses, can send the licence 52 of watching right.That client components 60 deciphers and carry out have been stipulated in licence, comprise the right of using right and surmounting right.Describe right label 40 and licence 52 below in detail.
Figure 11 explanation is according to the right label 40 of preferred embodiment.Right label 40 comprises a plurality of right options 44.Each right option 44 comprises uses right 44a, condition 44b and content provided 44c.Content provided 44c can comprise any mechanism, be used for reference to, call, search or in addition the regulation with right 44 associated content 42 are provided.
As shown in Figure 10, licence 52 comprises licence 52a, permits 52b and digitized signature 52c.Allowance 52b comprises from the use right through permitting of label selection and/or surmounts right.The structure of permitting also comprises one or more clientages (principal) (the use right of regulation and/or surmount right be to authorize to these clientages'), condition list and the needed state variable of exequatur.As using right, visit that surmounts right and the utilization by condition list and state variable control through permitting, as described below.
Can prepare expressly (not shielded) content with the document preparation application program 72 that is installed on the computing machine 70 that is associated with content publisher, content distributor, content service supplier or any other group.The preparation of content comprises that regulation uses right, surmounts right and can use and the condition of distributing contents 42, right label 40 is associated with content 42, and protects content 42 with some cryptographic algorithm.Can use such as XrML
TMAnd so on rights language come proscribed rights and condition.Yet, can come regulation use right by any means and surmount right.Right can also be by the predefine specification that only is associated with content or the form of template.Therefore, the process of proscribed rights is any process of instigating right to be associated with content.Can and be used for the right label 40 that is associated with content 42 encryption key of content-encrypt is sent to license server 50.
Right can stipulate to transmit right, such as distribution rights, and can allow right to authorize the derivation of other side or right.This right is called " surmounting right ".Surmount right and be and to operate, revise or derive some rights that other surmounts right or uses right in other mode.Can regard as using the use right of right surmounting right.Surmount right can comprise provide, permit, obtain, transmit, represent, follow the tracks of, abandon, exchange and abolish/from some rights of its side's use right.Surmount right and can comprise the right of revising any condition that is associated with other right.For example, surmounting right can be the right that enlarges and reduce the scope of specific rights.Surmounting right can also be the right that enlarges or reduce the effective period of a right.
Usually, must satisfy condition so that be used in use-pattern in the proscribed rights.For example, condition can be the payment of the expense before the utilization that allows use-pattern, submission or any other requirement of personal data.For example, condition can also be " access consideration ", and access consideration can be applied to particular group of users, for example, and the club member of student in the university or books.In other words, condition is that the user is the specific people or the member of particular group.Right and condition can be used as independent entity and exist and maybe can make up and exist.
State variable is followed the tracks of the dynamical state condition potentially.State variable is some variablees of value that have the expression project, use the state of right, licence or other dynamic condition.Can come the tracking mode variable by inner clearance (cleaninghouse) 90 licences or server 30 other devices according to the identification mechanism in the licence 52.In addition, can be in condition the value of user mode variable.For example, using right can be that content 42 is printed three times right.The each enforcement used right, and the value " printing times " of state variable is increased progressively.In this example, when the value of state variable is three, no longer satisfy condition and print What 42 again.Another example of state variable is the time.The condition of licence 52 may require print What 42 within 30 days.The serviceable condition variable is followed the tracks of 30 days expiration.In addition, can follow the tracks of of the set of the state of right as state variable.The set that changes is to use the state of right, represents the use history of this right.
The typical workflow of DRM system 10 is described now.Be activated at the recipient such as the user of operation in the client environment 30 with received content by excitation server 20.This causes public-private key that (and certain user/machine customizing messages) downloaded to client environment 30 by the form of the client software parts 60 of known way.Any time before sending licence can be realized this process of motivation.
When the user wished to use shielded content 42, the user made the request for content 42.For example, the user can use the browser that is installed in the client environment 30 browse enforcement with Web server 80 that the allowance device (such as content distributor) of right is associated on the website, and attempt to download shielded content 42.During this process, the user can be by comprising the series of steps of expense transaction (as in sales of the contents) or other transaction (such as the collection of information).When satisfying appropriate condition and other condition precedent (collection and checking such as expense have encouraged the user), Web server 80 is by secure communication channel (such as the channel of socket layer safe in utilization (SSL)) contact license server 50.License server 50 produces the licence 52 of content then, and Web server 80 is downloaded shielded content 42 and licence 52 boths.Can download licence 52 from license server 50 or the device that is associated.Can download content 42 from the computing machine 70 that is associated with publisher, distributor or other group.
Client components 60 in the client environment 30 will proceed to right and the condition decipher licence 52 according to regulation in the licence 52 then, and allow to use content 42.Generally, the execution of decipher and use right all is well-known.Above-mentioned these steps can sequentially take place, or are similar to generation simultaneously or press various order generations.
DRM system 10 is devoted to protect the secure context of content 42.Especially, DRM system 10 can identify the licence 52 that license server 50 has been sent.A kind of method that realizes this evaluation is to be determined whether to trust licence by application program 60.In other words, application program 60 is had the ability to the cryptographic signatures of digitized signature 52c, or other recognition feature of licence, verifies and is effective.During above-mentioned incentive step, client environment 30 and license server 50 boths receive the tamper-resistant software that also comprises other parts (such as the essential parts of excitation client environment 30) " encapsulation " and in a group key, with the signature 52 of verifying licence 52 in the known manner.Certainly, above-mentioned example is just realized a kind of method of DRM system.For example, can license and content from different entity branches.Also have, can make right provide 40 to be associated by a side different with a side of preparing content with content.Also have, before sending licence, can use inner clearance 90 to handle payment transaction and validation of payment.
Any group of right has all comprised two class entities, " supplier " with " consumer ".Supplier's function provides right and may permit right, and consumer's function is to select right and possibility exercise the right.In fact supplier and consumer can represent two or more entities.Generally, a plurality of entities can the venue be made providing of right to a plurality of entities and are permitted.Supplier and consumer representative has any two entities in the content value chain of the direct mutual relationship relevant with the allowance of right.At the place that begins of value chain, supplier and consumer can be author and publisher.Downward along value chain, supplier and consumer can be publisher and (properties collection) another publisher, publisher and (distribution of contents) distributor, distributor and (multistage distribution of contents) another distributor, distributor and (content retail) retailer, retailer and (content consumption) consumer and consumer and (provide-distribute or the individual taxi) another consumer for content.
The use right how " providing of right " or " right provides " expression consumer (for example, content distributor or user) can be associated with content and/or surmount the particular instance that right obtains content.Provide and to comprise or can not comprise financial indicator.Providing just commercial affairs to consult the expression of wish, also is the expression of permitting the wish of described project.Can represent to provide by the form of right label." consideration of right " is that wherein the right consumer has been provided by the right that is provided as a process of the part of right allowance, and may bargain to them and associated item and condition." selection of right " is the selection that accessory rights provides project that right and they are associated and condition to carry out.It represents that the consumer accepts the intention of these rights and corresponding project and condition.For example, selection can comprise from option 44 of label 40 selections." customization of right " is a process of a part of permitting as right, and wherein the right supplier is according to right consumer's selection collect right and project and condition.The output of this process can be the licence rough draft that the right consumer accepts." licence of right " is the expression of right, and may be the expression of the condition of right supplier and consumer's acceptance and agreement.It is the output that right provided and permitted process.Licence is an allowance for exercise the right, the use of described managing entitlement content (may comprise further distribution) or other project.
As mentioned above, the right label such as right label 40 can comprise and allows consumer's make one's options and hold consultation many options 44 of (if permission), and licence 52 comprises the right that the consumer has selected and accepted.Notice that the right of acceptance can comprise the right that side provides that gives it or the right that the selection that provides is provided.
An example of distribution chain model shown in Figure 1.Distribution chain comprises content provider 100, distributor 110 and final user 120.Certainly come preparing content in a manner described.Suppose in the model of Fig. 1 content all set.Fig. 1 is at the transmission of content, and supplier 100 is shown in this example can be to distributor's 110 publication contents, or receive the content that is used to re-use from distributor 110.Distributor 110 can give user 120 distribution of contents successively, or receives the content of returning from user 120.User 100 can use content.In order to further specify the potential complicacy of multistage distribution chain, supplier 100 can gather the content from its side, and the content that distributor 110 can receive from other distributor is used for distributing again, and user 120 can with other user's content shared.Can be clear that a plurality of stages are arranged in the content life cycle, and multiple relation is arranged between each side.At the different phase place of life cycle and relation, the accurate and conforming regulation of right is very important, and plays a decisive role for the lasting protection of the content in multistage distribution and use.
Fig. 2 illustrates the flow process of the right in the same model, comprises that right produces, gathers, sends, recalls, drives, permits, abandons, represents and exercises.The model of Fig. 2 comprises identical entity, supplier 100, distributor 110 and user 120.Flow process with respect to right can see that each can and accept right with allowance.User 120 can permit and accept the right from other user, is a process that is called as " representative " in this example.
The model of Fig. 2 comprises that many certain contents are published, distributed and use concerns.Different merging or isolation by some groups can be derived other model from this model.For example, each supplier can be a distributor.This is " directly publishing ", and this allows other their content of author's distribution/sale and need not any middle publisher.In addition, each consumer can be possible distributor.This allows the consumer to transmit content mutually.This comprises super-distribution, gives a present and individual's taxi.In one " WWW community ", everyone can publish, distribution and content of consumption." properties collection " allows publisher forming the combination works from the content of other publisher.On-the-spot licence and enterprise use and allow to share the middle content of consumer.
Generally, as shown in Fig. 3 (a) and 3 (b), two general supplier-consumer's models can obtain all authority relation shown in figure 2.Fig. 3 (a) illustrates " pushing away " model, and Fig. 3 (b) illustrates " drawing " model.Pushing away in the model that Fig. 3 (a) illustrates, right supplier 200 starts by producing rights to right consumer 210 and provide and permitting right that right provides and the allowance process.In the draw model shown in Fig. 3 (b), right consumer 210 provides and accepts right and start-up course by accessory rights supplier 200 request rights.
The structure that provides and permit the preferred embodiment of right shown in Figure 4.Can implement structure 400 as the combination of computer hardware and software and comprise right provider parts 402, right consumer's parts 438 and link the communication channel 422 of these two parts.For example, communication channel 42 can be the Internet, the direct computing machine that connects to computing machine, LAN (LAN (Local Area Network)), wireless connections or or the like.Provider's parts 402 are associated with the provider, even the entity that supplier's right can supply consumer's (it is to exercise, and promptly consumes an entity of right) to use.The provider can be content owner or supplier, maybe can be distributor or any " go-between ", such as the operator of retailer or Web website.Consumer's parts 438 are associated with the consumer, and described consumer may be final user's (that is content consumer) or " go-between " such as retailer, wholesale person or the person of reselling.Be noted that consumer spending right rather than essential use the (that is consumption) content.The hardware unit of any kind or software module can be implemented provider's parts 402 and consumer's parts 438 such as personal computer, handheld computer, mobile phone, server, network or these any combination.Provider's parts 402 produce right label 40 as providing, and give the licence rough draft and the consumer is permitted licence 52.Consumer's parts 438 send request, and accessory rights label 40 is selected option 44, counter providing is provided, and accepts licence 52.Can in same apparatus, implement provider's parts 402 and consumer's parts 438, and communication channel 422 can be an internal channel.
Provider's parts 402 comprise Subscriber Interface Module SIM 404, communication interface modules 420, identity module 406, are used for provider's right the resources bank 412 of the form of sending licence (for example, by) and are used to manage for information about database 414.404 couples of users of user interface realize the demonstration of component function and the interactive action of accepting the user by known way.Communication interface 422 provides appropriate form and agreement for the message in the middle of provider's parts 402 and the consumer's parts 438.Identity module 406 guarantees that consumer's parts 438 can identify the identity of provider's parts 402, and can comprise the authentication information of the user's who resembles password, cryptographic key or provider's parts 402 biometric information etc.Right resources bank 412 is stored the right for user's allowance of provider's parts 402, and can comprise the function of retrieval, search and updated stored right therein.Use and management database 414 right is provided and the allowance process during the information filing that produces.This information comprise with initially provide, the consumer selects, possible instead provide, agreement and the final relevant information of licence.
Consumer's parts 438 comprise Subscriber Interface Module SIM 428, communication interface modules 424, identity module 426, are used for consumer's right the resources bank 434 of the form of sending licence (for example, by) and are used to manage for information about database 436.User interface 424 is handled the user's of parts demonstration and the interactive action of accepting the user.Communication interface 422 provides for the right between provider's parts 402 and the consumer's parts 438 and permits message provides appropriate form and agreement.Identity module 426 guarantees that provider's parts 402 can identify the identity of consumer's parts 438, and can comprise the authentication information of the biometric information that resembles password, cryptographic key or user etc.Right resources bank 434 is stored the user's of grant consumers parts 438 right, and can comprise the function of retrieval, search and updated stored right therein.Use and management database 436 right is provided and the allowance process during the information filing that produces.This information comprises and the information that provides 44, the consumer selects, possible instead provide, agreement and licence 52 are relevant.Notice that database 436 can be stored and database 414 identical or different information, because therefore each side can have different archive information with other each side's interactive action.
Provider's parts 402 also comprise produce provide generator module 408 is provided; Be used to constitute the right composition module 410 of licence; What be used to provide template provides formwork module 418, and described template is used for producing according to former transaction and the common form that provides to be provided; And be used for according to past consumer characteristic and the consumer's overview module 416 that concerns customization and allowance right.
Consumer's parts 438 also comprise provides analyzer module 430, is used for understanding in the right that appearance is provided and their project and condition; Select fabricator's module 432, be used for being chosen in the favourable option that regulation is provided; Provider's relative importance value module 438 is used for according to past and existing provider's feature and concerns describing any preferable provider; And preference pattern module 440, be used for being provided at the pattern and the interests (interest) of the selection option that provides.For example, preference pattern module 440 can comprise for the preferable provider's of the interested project of consumer the tabulation or the tabulation of lowest price.Can be respectively analyzer module 430 being provided and selecting fabricator's module 432 to be combined into a module.
The process that provides in structure 400 and permit right is based on the agreement followed by provider's parts 402 and consumer's parts 438.These agreements generally comprise to be provided and acceptance that this provides.Especially, these agreements comprise a side to the providing and accept this by personnel and provide of the opposing party's right, and this provides for described personnel and makes.In case having made one provides, this is provided form a kind of form, so that before accepting, can abolish it, or the supplier can make it form a kind of form, so that under the definable all situations of supplier or only all can not abolish it in some cases.Can also make by variety of way expiration is provided, for example, if the deadline date of accepting pass by.If there is no Gui Ding deadline date, then provide and to expire by the predetermined reasonable time according to the theme that provides.For available content periodically, such as magazine, periodical, and even newspaper, for example, reasonably the time can meet the cycle that content is published.For the content that dynamically produces or provide, such as the content that becomes stream, reasonably the time can be to obtain the content any time before.Right provider can order other project of acceptance, and right consumer is the constraint that is subjected to other project of described acceptance.For example, provide and to need by Email or the acceptance that sends it back by certain form by certain Web web-page interface.
Fig. 5 (a) illustrates the workflow of the agreement that pushes away model 500 that right is permitted.For example, provider's parts 402 produce by the providing of right form, that may have many options 44 of right label 40, and it is sent to consumer's parts 438 (510).Consumer's parts 438 consider to provide the possible option with it, and provide 44 selection to provider's parts 402 respond (512) with any optional right.Provider's parts 402 customize right according to consumer's response, and right are sent to the user (514) of consumer's parts 432 by the form of licence rough draft.
Consumer's parts 438 are accepted the licence rough draft then, if it is corresponding to the selection of having done, and are acceptable other modes (516).One when acceptance, and provider's parts 402 produce licences 52, and licence 52 is sent to consumer's parts (518).Notice that the allowance 52b of licence 52 can comprise the use right and/or surmount right.Therefore licence 52 user that can allow consumer's parts 438 authorizes its side by similar manner with right.Yet by surmounting the use of right, upstream group has controlled the right that can derive.In addition, agreement can comprise some steps, and wherein 402 requests of provider's parts are paid by the user's of consumer's parts 438 credit card, and provider's parts 402 provide information and authorization of charge.When process success or failure, provider's parts 402 and consumer's parts 438 boths can produce status report.In addition, during process, each side can identify mutually, and keep evaluation in whole process.
Fig. 5 (b) illustrates the agreement of the drawing-die piece of right allowance.At first, consumer's parts 438 send to provider's parts 402 to request, to represent obtaining some right (520) interested in the content.Providing in response of the right that provider's parts 402 are asked with topped consumer's parts 438 then, described providing by having a plurality of forms that the label 40 of option 44 (right that comprises consumer's parts 438 request) is provided, and this is provided send to consumer's parts 438 (522).
Consumer's parts 438 are considered to provide and its option then, and one of select to provide in the option and to respond provider's parts 402 (524).Provider's parts 402 customize right according to response, and with the form of licence rough draft to consumer's vest right (526).Consumer's parts 438 are accepted licence rough draft (528) and provider's parts 402 and are sent consumer's parts 438 are granted the licence 52 (530) of rights then.Once more, right can comprise and surmounts right.
Fig. 6 explanation in provider's parts 402 provide that generator module 408 carries out production process 600 is provided.In production process 600 is provided, at first in piece 602, collect available right.Can from before the provider obtain right, by deriving, maybe can be the right of original establishment from the right that surmounts of authorizing the provider.In step 604, whether the judgement provider has to the consumer, and the right that provides is provided.For example, be to be limited to the consumer that grows up if known consumer is minor and content, if or the consumer be in a tabulation forbidding received content, then the provider will not make provides.In this case, in step 606, stop providing production process.Provide if the provider has the right to make, then process is judged in step 608 and can be provided all authority to the consumer by analyze the right of collecting in step 602 then.Then, in step 610, process judges whether the consumer has asked any specific rights.If received request, then the established right that can provide further is provided process, considers the right of the consumer's request received, and these rights with can obtain right and compare.Then, whether process is judged to need to use in step 614 provides template.
For example, may provide the standard that is included in template right, such as the printing right of content, filing right etc. to the consumer.If template is provided is available and be essential, then using in step 616 provides template.In step 618, can provide artificial intervention, with further to providing template to regulate and the available so far right that provides in the process being made adjusting.Then, can apply restriction by condition and/or state variable.For example, in step 620, can on some right, time restriction be set.Finally, in step 622, provide digitized signature or other to identify with the set of the right that will provide, and in step 624, make with right label 40 forms through providing of identifying, and in step 624, offer consumer's parts 438.
The right customization procedure 800 that the right composition module 410 of Fig. 8 explanation in provider's parts 402 carried out.Beginning receives consumer's selection in step 802.Selection is the right and the condition (Fig. 6) of option 44 of the selected label 40 of step 624.Process judges whether provider's parts 402 have the right to consumer's parts 438 vest rights in step 804 then.For example, if the consumer can not meet some requirement, prove such as minimal ages or the inhabitation in the place that content can be permitted that for example, licensure may be inappropriate, then right customization procedure 800 stops in step 806.Otherwise, in step 808, analyzing the selection that the consumer selects, whether can distinguish to determine them by provider's parts 402.For example, whether they are intelligible can to analyze selection.
Then, process judges whether consumer information is available in step 810.For example, can be stored in (Fig. 4) in the database 414 to consumer's overview.If can obtain, then in step 812, consider consumer information, be used for the further analysis that the consumer selects.In step 812, it is also conceivable that multidate information, as described below.For example, overview can comprise the class rating or the address of consumer's trust, makes it become requirement in not requiring so that some right to be provided.Process judges in step 814 whether select is rational then.For example, can be by calculating or artificially getting involved and carry out this judgement.If think that consumer's selection is irrational, then in piece 816, carry out the negotiation again of consumer's selection then.At this again in the negotiations process, provide providing of new suggestion according to the selection of former analysis to the consumer, the have an opportunity selection that proposes newly to provide of consumer is provided, and in step 802, begins right customization procedure 800 once more.Otherwise in step 818, create the licence that comprises selected right.
After creating licence,, then in step 822, offer the consumer and examine if consumer's acceptance is essential (step 820).If the consumer disagrees with the project in the licence in step 824, then beginning is consulted again in step 816, has restarted right customization procedure 800 in step 802 once more.In step 820,, identify in step 826 that then licence to create the licence of finishing 52 in step 828, sends the licence of finishing 52, and is associated with content 42 if do not need consumer's examination.
Fig. 7 explanation provides analyzer module 430 and selects to make that device module 432 carries out that consideration process 700 is provided by consumer's parts 438.Available providing at first is provided in step 702.In step 704, process 700 judges whether it has the right to accept providing from the provider.For example, if some restriction of couple consumer is arranged on the content of buying, such as age limit or for the restriction of accepting content from the enterprise outside, then the consumer can not accept to provide.In this case, in step 706, stop providing the consideration process.If the consumer has the right to accept from the providing of provider, then analyzing in step 708 provides to determine whether they are recognizable.If judge to obtain provider's relative importance value in step 710, then leaching according to relative importance value in step 712 provides.For example, the consumer may trust specific provider, or in addition preference is concluded the business with this provider, and is more than the transaction of carrying out with other provider.Then, step 714 judges whether can obtain consumer's relative importance value, if can obtain, then in step 716 they being put on provides.In case require logic that all providing has been provided by logic and any other that applies step 708-714, the consumer just selects option in piece 718, and in piece 720, stipulate the possibility item.Can automatically finish the selection of option.If ask for help to getting involved, then the consumer can interfere and desired additional selection of further regulation or condition.Can use any relative importance value, rule or other logic analysis to provide.
Generally speaking, as in above-mentioned Fig. 6,7 and 8 explanation, seeing that the consumer sends a request, construct a licence then.Provider or consumer can draft license content, but be provider's draft in above-mentioned example.The subclass that provides of request, and provide and have one or more options.The provider makes the consumer of the request of transmission that (if desired, other consumer can be provided) can be provided, and consumer's (if favourable, comprising other consumer) makes one's options.The provider analyzes selection then, and structure licence (that is the allowance of right).Note, also can refuse request, maybe can make a counter proposal, identical process is repeated by counter proposal.
Also have, when provider's analysis request, can automatically or by artificial intervention finish analysis.When the consumer considers to provide, can be automatically or finish by artificial intervention and to select or accept.Can produce according to multidate information, consumer's information and consumer's request provides or licence, or both, as mentioned above.
Multidate information can comprise multiclass information, these information comprise with the state of price, network, Web website in each constantly traffic, given discount, given complimentary ticket, consumer's hobby, use this content to reach how many times, use and how long have in this, this content is used for where waiting relevant information.Multidate information can be followed the tracks of as state variable, and the value with the update mode variable can be checked on demand.
Multidate information is to change or the information created (though, in fact must be not so) by the nonstatic unit or by reference nonstatic unit.For example, can obtain multidate information, according to the number percent of: formula, database, curve, predetermined form, value, function, to the reference of other data, such as the variation of interested prime rate or stock index and/or by user or distributor's artificial intervention and/or consumer's input.
Consumer's information can comprise some information, such as consumer's age, consumer's credit history as well as, consumer's credit limit, consumer's income, the right that obtains what type or licence, consumer's password, the key of distributing to the consumer, visit or discounted clubber's qualification, according to the consumer's of predetermined criterion rank or any other data, recognition feature and information.Provider's information can comprise the some or all of message subject as consumer's information, for example, can also comprise available option or variation, provider, Shipping Information and out of Memory.
System that the present invention discloses and process are supported the multistage and super distribution (superdistribution) of content.Being a kind of operating position below, how this situation can carry out modelling and support to this if illustrating.By illustrate right that right provider (being content distributor in this case) is provided be transformed into process explanation to right consumer (being the final user in this case) granted entitlements process with vest right be provided.Illustrate especially how to produce from existing licence provide, how with selecting to consider that this provides and how to send final licence.Surmounting right provides a kind of mechanism, is used for allowing to transmit right from a side to next side in content distribution chain.
The content provider P that supposes some content C wishes to stipulate that distributor D can be to any final user in the united states (us) zone by 1 dollar sell at a reasonable price " broadcast " right and sell " printing " right (both pays P by D) by the price of 4 dollars in every copy.The supplier also allows content distributor that its condition is appended to it to issue on " broadcast " and " printing " right of final user.
Below can being similar to, uses by licence from content provider to distributor XrML
TMThe licence of rights language.
| <license><xu Kezheng><grant><permit><forAll varName＝"user"/><for all name variables=Yong Hu><forAll varName＝"distributorConditionForPlay"/><distributor's Tiao Jian ﹠gt for all name variable=broadcasts;<principal id＝"distributor"/><clientage's identifier=Fen Fazhe><issue/><fa Chu><grant><permit><principal varRef＝"user"/><clientage's variable reference=Yong Hu><play/><play><digital Resource licensePartid＝"book"/><digitalization resource licence part identifier=Tu Shu><allCondition><suo Youtiaojian><region regionCode＝"US"/><regions code=Mei Guo><condition varRef＝"distributorConditionForPlay"/><distributor's Tiao Jian ﹠gt of conditional-variable reference=broadcast;<allCondition><suo Youtiaojian></grant><permit><fee><fei Yong> |
| <flat currencycode＝"USD">1</flat><par currency code=dollar>1</Ping Jia><to licensePartid＝"provider"/><to licence part identifier=Ti Gongzhe><fee><fei Yong></grant><permit> |
| <grant><permit><forAll varName＝"user"/><for all name variables=Yong Hu><forAll varName＝"distributorConditionForPrint"/><distributor's Tiao Jian ﹠gt for all name variable=printings;<principal id＝"distributor"/><clientage's identifier=Fen Fazhe><issue/><fa Chu><grant><permit><principal varRef>=" user "/〉<clientage's variable reference=Yong Hu><play/><play><digital Resource licensePartid＝"book"/><digitalization resource licence part identifier=Tu Shu><allCondition><suo Youtiaojian><region regionCode＝"US"/><regions code=Mei Guo><condition varRef＝"distributorConditionForPrint"/><distributor's Tiao Jian ﹠gt of conditional-variable reference=printing;<allCondition><suo Youtiaojian></grant><permit><fee><fei Yong><perUse regioncode＝"USD">5</perUse)><each area code=dollar ﹠gt that uses; 5</Shi Yong ﹠gt at every turn; |
| <to licensePartid＝"provider"/><to licence part identifier=Ti Gongzhe><fee><fei Yong></grant><permit><issuer id＝"provider"/><the person's of sending identifier=Ti Gongzhe></license><xu Kezheng> |
The distributor can make providing for the final user according to the right that it has been explained in above-mentioned licence.Note, the use right and the condition of each option are defined as＜grant XML between the mark
TMElement.In the providing below, note, the distributor adds the fee condition that obtains " broadcast " right, to final user charge 2 dollars (expense of paying the supplier than it is Duoed 1 dollar), and add another fee condition for " printing " right, to final user's 6 dollars in every copy (expense of paying the supplier than it is Duoed 1 dollar) of charging.The distributor also limits the time cycle (on Dec 31st, 2002) that acceptance provides.The right that surmounts that the distributor is authorized allows the distributor to revise allowance in the licence, as mentioned above, and makes and providing.
| <offer><ti Gong><grant><permit><forAll varName＝"user"/><for all name variables=Yong Hu><principal varRef＝"user"/><clientage's variable reference=Yong Hu><obtain/><de Dao><grant><permit><principal varRef＝"user"/><clientage's variable reference=Yong Hu><play/><play><digital Resource licensePartid＝"book"/><digitalization resource licence part identifier=Shu Ji><region regionCode＝"US"/><regions code=Mei Guo> |
| </grant><permit><fee><fei Yong><flat currencyCode＝"USD">2</flat><par currency code=dollar>2</Ping Jia><to licensePartid＝"provider"/><to licence part identifier=Ti Gongzhe></fee><fei Yong></grant><permit><grant><permit><forAll varName＝"user"/><for all name variables=Yong Hu><principal varRef＝"user"/><clientage's variable reference=Yong Hu><obtain/><de Dao><grant><permit><principal varRef＝"user"/><clientage's variable reference=Yong Hu><print/><print><digital Resource licensePartid＝"book"/><digitalization resource licence part identifier=Shu Ji><allCondition><suo Youtiaojian><region regionCode＝"US"/><regions code=Mei Guo><fee><fei Yong><perUse currencyCode＝"USD">6</perUse><each currency code=dollar ﹠gt that uses; 6</Shi Yong ﹠gt at every turn;<to licensePartid＝"distributor"/><to licence part identifier=Fen Fazhe></fee><fei Yong></allCondition><suo Youtiaojian></grant><permit></grant><permit><issuer id＝"distributor"/><the person's of sending identifier=Fen Fazhe><validityinterval><effective time is ﹠gt at interval;<until>2002:12:31</until><up on Dec 31st, 2002; |
| </validityinterval><effective time is ﹠gt at interval;</issuer><the person of sending></offer><ti Gong> |
When the final user provides, the final user can select to have to " broadcast " right of 2 dollars of par expenses, and with being defined as＜choice〉XML between the mark
TMA selection of element responds the distributor, and is as follows.
| <choice>(selection)<grant>(allowance)<principal id＝"anEndUser"/>(clientage identifier=final user)<obtain/>(obtaining)<grant>(allowance)<principal id＝"anEndUser"/>(clientage identifier=final user)<play/>(broadcast)<digitalResource licensePartid＝"book"/>(digitalization resource licence part identifier=books)<region regionCode＝"US"/>(regions code=U.S.)</grant>(allowance)<fee>(expense)<flat currencyCode＝"USD">2</flat>(par currency code=dollar〉2＜/par)<to licensePartid＝"distributor"/>(to licence part identifier=distributor)</fee>(expense)</grant>(allowance)<issuer id＝"anEndUser">(person of sending identifier=final user)<validityinterval>(effective time at interval)<until>2002:12:31</until>(up on Dec 31st, 2002)</validityinterval>(effective time at interval)</issuer>(person of sending) |
| </choice>(selection) |
Note, also can refuse request.Be also noted that can also constitute response is not that the counter of right that is originally provided by the distributor provides.When the distributor accepted selection from the final user, it just issues the user to licence, and was as follows.
| <license>(licence)<grant>(allowance)<principal id＝"anEndUser"/>(clientage identifier=final user)<obtain/>(obtaining)<grant>(allowance)<principal id＝"anEndUser"/>(clientage identifier=final user)<play/>(broadcast)<digitalResource licensePartid＝"book"/>(digitalization resource licence part identifier=books)<region regionCode＝"US"/>(regions code=U.S.)</grant>(allowance)<fee>(expense)<flat currencyCode＝"USD">2</flat>(par currency code=dollar〉2＜/par)<to licensePartid＝"distributor"/>(to licence part identifier=distributor)</fee>(expense)</grant>(allowance)<issuer id＝"distributor">(person of sending identifier=distributor)<issuedTime>(sending the time) 2002:05:06 (on May 6th, 2002)</issuedTime>(sending the time)</issuer>(person of sending)</license>(licence) |
Notice that in above-mentioned all XML document, the person of sending can select to use some digitized signature algorithm that document is carried out digitized signature.These file receiver have an opportunity to verify validity of these documents by the validity of checking appended digital signature.Use known technology can control for the wherein visit of various documents and element.
In some cases, provide and permit causing licence to have the Flushing status that uses for content.When the beginning exercise the right, can inherit and/or shared and right associated state variate-value as the right that the result who surmounts right obtains through deriving.For example, when permitting a personal right when printing 5 times and making 4 parts of copies of some document, all new copies will have identical rights group but with original paper shared state (or keeping right).After printing original paper 2 times and having made new copy, 2 parts of new copies can be printed 3 times and make to copy and original paper together again.
Preferred embodiment can utilize various devices, such as personal computer, server, workstation, PDA, thin client etc.For example, client environment can be a hand-held device, such as mobile phone or PDA.Can use the various channels that are used to communicate by letter.In addition, can be integrated into various functions in the device.For example, can realize the license server function by the software in the client environment.In addition, can in identical device, realize being used to make providing, selecting right and permit the license server of licence or the function of other module.For the sake of clarity, the functional module that is disclosed is separated according to function.Yet, can make up or separate various functions by any means as hardware and/or software.Various functions separately or combination all are useful.
Can be stored in wherein each unit and part in same apparatus or the different device.For example, can store licence with content, or with the content separate storage.In addition, can be stored in each unit of licence in the independent device.For example, can be stored in the value of state variable in the state variable resources bank of a system of currency of tracking mode variable.Can use various links, reference, specification etc. to be associated with the unit.
The present invention has been described by preferred embodiment and example.Yet, can carry out various modifications and not depart from as appending claims and the legal defined scope of the present invention of equivalent.
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1. method is used to transmit and is applicable to the use right that is associated with project, and described method comprises the following steps:
At least one that is produced the use right comprise project and surmounted right by the provider first provides, described use right defined item purpose use-pattern, and described some rights of right stipulation that surmount use right or other to surmount right to derive;
Described providing presented first consumer;
Receive desired use right of expression and the selection that surmounts right from first consumer; And
Generation is authorized the desired use right of first consumer and is surmounted first licence of right.
2. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, one or more conditions that described licence regulation must satisfy so that described use right is exercised, and regulation one or more conditions that must satisfy, surmount right and exercised so that make.
3. the method for claim 1 further comprises from the step of first consumer reception for the request of licence.
4. the method for claim 1 further comprises the following steps:
That reception is produced by second consumer, at least one request using right and surmount the licence of right that comprises project;
Producing second by second provider provides, and described second provides to comprise from second described providing is provided and surmount the right that right derives, and wherein second provider is first consumer; And
Produce second licence by second provider, described second licence comprises from second described providing is provided and surmounts the right that right derives, and wherein second provider is first consumer.
5. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, described project comprises digitized content.
6. the method for claim 1 further comprises the following steps:
Described first licence is offered first consumer as the draft license that customizes;
Receive the affirmation of the draft license of described customization from first consumer; And
Authenticate described draft license to create certified licence.
7. the method for claim 1, it is characterized in that, described first licence comprises that licence identification, digitized signature and at least one permit, and described at least one allowance comprises to be used right, surmount right, specifies and authorize clientage (named principal) and a condition list to first consumer's nomination right.
8. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, at least one among the described first provider person of providing, distributor, retailer, consumer or the user.
9. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, at least one among the described first consumer person of providing, distributor, retailer, consumer or the user.
10. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, at least one described step that provides is provided comprises the following steps:
The available use right that collection will be provided and surmount right;
Judge whether the provider has the right to provide available use right and surmount right;
Other right of using right and surmounting right if there is no is provided, one group of generation that provides then is provided;
Provide other right of using right and surmounting right if the provider has, then constituting according to available right provides; And
Described providing is provided.
11. method as claimed in claim 10 is characterized in that, described formation step comprises:
Judge whether the consumer has asked to comprise specific use right and providing of right is provided;
Apply specific use right and surmount right according to filtrator to providing; And
Whether judge provides template corresponding to providing of leaching, if, then apply the described template that provides as providing.
12. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, the described step that produces first licence further comprises the following steps:
Judge whether the provider has the right of vest right;
If the provider does not have the right of vest right, then stop the step of customization draft license;
One or more selections that analysis receives from the consumer;
Judge whether described selection is acceptable; And
If described selection is acceptable, then according to selecting to create draft license.
13. method as claimed in claim 12 is characterized in that, the step of described generation further comprises the following steps:
Draft license is presented the consumer;
If first licence does not obtain consumer's approval, then consult licence again; And
If first consumer acceptance's draft license is then identified draft license.
14. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, described use right stipulation copy, transmission, lease, broadcast, printing, standby, recover, deletion, extract, embed, editor, authorize, install or the right of installation project not.
15. transmit to use a kind of system of right, described use right is applicable to project and is associated, obtain licence in the channels such as many of the distribution of using the downstream right of distributing by at least one grade and condition, described system comprises:
Provider's parts comprise:
Provider's Subscriber Interface Module SIM;
Generator module is provided, is used to produce and comprises and use right at least and providing of right be provided;
Right constitutes the device module, is used to constitute draft license;
The resources bank that is used for provider's right;
Provider's management database; And
Consumer's parts comprise:
Consumer's Subscriber Interface Module SIM;
The consideration module is provided, and being configured to analyze by what provider's parts produced providing and carrying according to analyzing selection
Supply;
The resources bank that is used for consumer rights;
Consumer's management database; And
The communication link of described provider's parts and described consumer's parts is coupled.
16. system as claimed in claim 15, it is characterized in that, described provider's parts further comprise provides template and consumer's profile information, wherein saidly provide template to comprise one or more predetermined use rights and surmount right, wherein said consumer's profile information comprises in consumer's identifying information, charge information, purchase historical information, consumer's priority level information and the credit quota class information at least one.
17. system as claimed in claim 15 is characterized in that, described consumer's parts further comprise provider's relative importance value module, are used to provide provider's information.
18. system as claimed in claim 15 is characterized in that, described providing considers that module comprises:
Be used to judge whether the consumer device that provides can be provided;
Be used for selecting logic to put on the device that this provides;
The device that is used for regulation possibility item; And
Be used to authenticate the device of selecting and this selection being offered described provider's parts.
19. system as claimed in claim 18 is characterized in that, the described device that is used to apply comprises:
Be used for analyzing and provide and the device of selecting preferable use right and surmounting right is being provided;
Be used for leaching the device that provides according to provider's relative importance value;
Be used to apply the device of consumer's relative importance value; And
The described device that is used for according to the described device, the described device that is used to leach that are used to analyze and is used to apply consumer's relative importance value is selected the device of option.
20. for management use and the distribution of digitized content at least one, be used for a kind of method to the digitized content generation licence that will use in system, described method comprises the following steps:
Comprise to consumer submission providing of right is provided;
During consumer's reception provides at least one surmounts the selection of right;
According to selecting to produce a licence, wherein this licence allows consumer to exercise at least one to surmount right, and allow the consumer that at least one right through deriving that surmounts the right derivation from least one is provided, and produce the licence that comprises at least one right through deriving.
21. method as claimed in claim 15 is characterized in that, is used at least one right through deriving second party, licence and comprises the use right that second party will be exercised and allow the right through deriving is offered the third-party right that surmounts.
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