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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 24, 1999
Marcus Peinado, Bellevue, WA (US);
John L. Manferdelli, Redmond, WA (US);
Jeffrey R. C. Bell, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A rendering application determines that digital content is in an encrypted rights-protected form and invokes a Digital Rights Management (DRM) system which includes a license store having at least one digital license stored therein. Each license corresponds to a piece of digital content and includes a decryption key (KD) for decrypting the corresponding digital content. The DRM system locates each license in the license store corresponding to the digital content to be rendered, selects one of the located licenses, obtains (KD) from the selected license, decrypts the digital content with (KD), and returns the decrypted digital content to the rendering application for actual rendering.