Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Kumar B Parambir

Blair Brewster Dillaway

Charles F Rose

Rushmi U Malaviarachchi

Chandramouli Venkatesh

Steve Bourne

Pierre Jacomet

Yevgeniy Eugene Rozenfeld

Scott C Cottrille

Peter David Waxman

Gregory Kostal

Yuhui Zhong

Abhijat A Kanade

Yevgeniy (Eugene) Rozenfeld

Rushmi U Malviarachchi

Syed A Mehdi

Patricia Priest

Li Ren

A publishing user publishes digital content and issues to itself a corresponding digital publisher license to allow itself to render the published digital content. The publishing user is supplied with a publishing certificate from a digital rights management (DRM) server, where the publishing certificate allows the publishing user to so publish the digital content and to so issue the publisher license.

Issuing a publisher use license off-line in a digital rights management (DRM) system

One embodiment includes a method which may be practiced in a computing environment where resources are distributed. The method includes acts for obtaining policy information defining restrictions on resources distributed in the computing environment. The method includes sending a request to a server for metadata about one or more resource protection policies at the server. In response to the request, metadata about one or more resource protection polices at the server is received from the server. The metadata from the server is analyzed. Based on analyzing the metadata, one or more resource protection policies stored at the client are updated.

Distribution of information protection policies to client machines

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Kumar B Parambir