Decoupling rights in a digital content unit from download
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IPC분류정보
국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
G06F-021/10
G06Q-020/38
H04L-009/08
H04L-009/32
H04L-029/06
출원번호
US-0550701
(2006-10-18)
등록번호
US-10102351
(2018-10-16)
발명자
/ 주소
Zweig, Jonathan M.
Woodyatt, James H.
출원인 / 주소
APPLE INC.
대리인 / 주소
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
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초록▼
Systems and methods for enabling a user to obtain rights in a legitimate copy of a digital content unit without downloading the copy from a digital content store are provided. The systems and methods provide an encrypted copy of a digital content unit to a first user and transcript the encrypted cop
Systems and methods for enabling a user to obtain rights in a legitimate copy of a digital content unit without downloading the copy from a digital content store are provided. The systems and methods provide an encrypted copy of a digital content unit to a first user and transcript the encrypted copy to generate the legitimate copy to a second user. The encrypted copy is encrypted with a first encrypt key that may be associated with the first user and the legitimate copy is encrypted with a second encrypt key that may be associated with the second user.
대표청구항▼
1. For a first electronic device, a method for providing access to digital content, the method comprising: receiving a piece of content from a second electronic device, wherein the received piece of content comprises a first portion selected as a preview of the piece of content by a user of the seco
1. For a first electronic device, a method for providing access to digital content, the method comprising: receiving a piece of content from a second electronic device, wherein the received piece of content comprises a first portion selected as a preview of the piece of content by a user of the second electronic device, wherein the first and second electronic devices are user devices;identifying the piece of content as content to which the first electronic device does not have access to an entirety of;storing, on the first electronic device, the piece of content to which the first electronic device does not have access to the entirety of;at the first electronic device, receiving a selection by a user of the first electronic device of a second portion of the piece of content, received from the second electronic device and stored on the first electronic device, as a preview of the piece of content for the first electronic device that is different from the preview of the piece of content selected by the user of the second electronic device;at the first electronic device, presenting the second portion of the piece of content, wherein the receiving of the piece of content, identifying, storing, receiving the selection, and presenting are performed by the first electronic device;contacting, by the first electronic device, an authorization mechanism; andreceiving, from the authorization mechanism, authorization for the first electronic device to access the piece of content. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the piece of content is of a same quality as the second portion of the piece of content. 3. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the piece of content as content to which the first electronic device does not have access to the entirety of comprises identifying that the first electronic device has partial access to the piece of content, wherein the method further comprises, upon receiving the authorization to access the piece of content, enabling access to the entirety of the piece of content. 4. The method of claim 1, wherein the piece of content comprises at least one pointer not accessible in the second portion of the piece of content. 5. The method of claim 4 further comprising, upon receiving the authorization to access the piece of content, enabling access to the at least one pointer that is not accessible in the second portion of the piece of content. 6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and second portions of the piece of content are equal-duration time-based subsets of the piece of content starting at different times in a duration of the piece of content. 7. A non-transitory computer readable medium of a first electronic device, the non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program which when executed by at least one processing unit of the first electronic device provides access to digital content, the program comprising sets of instructions for: receiving a piece of content from a second electronic device, wherein the received piece of content comprises a first portion selected as a preview of the piece of content by a user of the second electronic device, wherein the first and second electronic devices are user devices;identifying the piece of content as content to which the first electronic device does not have access to an entirety of;storing, on the first electronic device, the piece of content to which the first electronic device does not have access to an entirety of;at the first electronic device, receiving a selection by a user of the first electronic device of a second portion of the piece of content, received from the second electronic device and stored on the first electronic device, as a preview of the piece of content for the first electronic device that is different than the preview of the piece of content for the second electronic device;at the first electronic device, presenting the second portion of the piece of content, wherein the receiving of the piece of content, identifying, storing, receiving the selection, and presenting are performed by the first electronic device;contacting an authorization mechanism; andreceiving, from the authorization mechanism, authorization for the first electronic device to access the piece of content. 8. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 7, wherein the set of instructions for identifying the piece of content as content to which the first electronic device does not have access comprises a set of instructions for identifying that the first electronic device has partial access to the piece of content, wherein the program further comprises a set of instructions for enabling access to a remainder of the piece of content that is not yet accessed by the first electronic device upon receiving the authorization to access the piece of content. 9. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 8, wherein the second portion of the piece of content is of a same quality as the remainder of the piece of content. 10. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 8, wherein the piece of content comprises a pointer that separates the second portion and the remainder of the piece of content. 11. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 7, wherein the first and second portions of the piece of content are equal-duration time-based subsets of the piece of content starting at different times in a duration of the piece of content. 12. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 7, wherein the program further comprises a set of instructions for deauthorizing the piece of content after a period of time. 13. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 12, wherein the set of instructions for deauthorizing comprises a set of instructions for removing a key associated with the piece of content. 14. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 8, wherein the program further comprises a set of instructions for deauthorizing the remainder of the piece of content after a period of time. 15. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 7, wherein the authorization mechanism comprises at least one of a digital content store and a playback mechanism. 16. A first electronic device comprising: a set of processing units; anda non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program which when executed by at least one of the processing units provides access to digital content, the program comprising sets of instructions for: receiving a piece of content from a second electronic device, wherein the received piece of content comprises a first portion selected as a preview of the piece of content by a user of the second electronic device, wherein the first and second electronic devices are user devices;identifying the piece of content as content to which the first electronic device does not have access to an entirety of;storing, on the first electronic device, the piece of content to which the first electronic device does not have access to the entirety of;at the first electronic device, receiving a selection by a user of the first electronic device of a second portion of the piece of content, received from the second electronic device and stored on the first electronic device, as a preview of the piece of content for the first electronic device that is different than the preview of the piece of content for the second electronic device;at the first electronic device, presenting the second portion of the piece of content, wherein the receiving of the piece of content, identifying, storing, receiving the selection, and presenting are performed by the first electronic device; andcontacting, by the first electronic device, an authorization mechanism; andreceiving, from the authorization mechanism, authorization for the first electronic device to access the piece of content. 17. The first electronic device of claim 16, wherein the second portion is of a same quality as the piece of content. 18. The first electronic device of claim 16, wherein the set of instructions for identifying the piece of content as content to which the first electronic device does not have access comprises a set of instructions for identifying that the first electronic device has partial access to the piece of content, wherein the program further comprises a set of instructions for enabling access to a remainder of the piece of content that is not yet accessed by the first electronic device upon receiving the authorization to access the piece of content. 19. The first electronic device of claim 16, wherein the program further comprises a set of instructions for, upon receiving the authorization to access the piece of content, enabling access to at least one pointer that is not accessible in the second portion of the piece of content. 20. The first electronic device of claim 19, wherein the first and second portions of the piece of content are equal-duration time-based subsets of the piece of content starting at different times in a duration of the piece of content. 21. The method of claim 1, wherein the second portion of the piece of content is a time-based subset of an entire multimedia stream. 22. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 7, wherein the second portion of the piece of content is a time-based subset of an entire multimedia stream. 23. The first electronic device of claim 16, wherein the program further comprises a set of instructions for deauthorizing the piece of content after a period of time.
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