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The present invention provides systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection. Electronic appliances such as computers equipped in accordance with the present invention help to ensure that information is accessed and used only in authorized ways, and maintain

The present invention provides systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection. Electronic appliances such as computers equipped in accordance with the present invention help to ensure that information is accessed and used only in authorized ways, and maintain the integrity, availability, and/or confidentiality of the information. Such electronic appliances provide a distributed virtual distribution environment (VDE) that may enforce a secure chain of handling and control, for example, to control and/or meter or otherwise monitor use of electronically stored or disseminated information. Such a virtual distribution environment may be used to protect rights of various participants in electronic commerce and other electronic or electronic-facilitated transactions. Distributed and other operating systems, environments and architectures, such as, for example, those using tamper-resistant hardware-based processors, may establish security at each node. These techniques may be used to support an all-electronic information distribution, for example, utilizing the "electronic highway."

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[ We claim:] [1.] A method for negotiating electronic contracts, comprising:receiving a first control set from a remote site;providing a second control set;performing, within a protected processing environment, an electronic negotiation between said first control set and said second control set, inc

[ We claim:] [1.] A method for negotiating electronic contracts, comprising:receiving a first control set from a remote site;providing a second control set;performing, within a protected processing environment, an electronic negotiation between said first control set and said second control set, including providing interaction between said first and second control sets; andproducing a negotiated control set resulting from said interaction between said first and second control sets.