Nokia Corporation

Jeffrey Miles Wilkinson

Leon Hurst

Julian Durand

Mulligan Michael

A method and apparatus for consumption of content () is described in which a licensor is able to exercise control over consumption based on a personal identity in the form of a set of binding attributes (). The control may be exercised for a number of consuming terminals () including rendering machines such as portable video and audio players.

Consumption of content

Methods and systems for selectively capturing content and delivering the captured content to mobile communications devices via wireless communications are disclosed. In some embodiments, a mobile unit sends a request for content to a nearby content server, to which the content server may respond with a list of available content items. The mobile unit may send a second, refined request for a specific content item. The content server may send the requested content item to the mobile unit, or the content server may send a pointer to the mobile unit, which indicates a network location from which a user may later retrieve the actual content item. In another embodiment, a mobile unit sends a request to a content server for presently displayed content. The content server may capture a screen image and send the captured image to the mobile unit. Alternatively, the content server may send the file in a native file format of the file from which the displayed content was generated.

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Wellesley Hills, MA, United States of America

Jeffrey Miles Wilkinson