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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2001
Rajasekhar Abburi, Medina, WA (US);
James M. Alkove, Woodinville, WA (US);
William P. Mcneill, Seattle, WA (US);
Jeffrey R. Mckune, Issaquah, WA (US);
Rajasekhar Abburi, Medina, WA (US);
James M. Alkove, Woodinville, WA (US);
William P. McNeill, Seattle, WA (US);
Jeffrey R. McKune, Issaquah, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An enforcement architecture and method for implementing roaming digital rights management are disclosed. A license distributed from a license server to a computing device of a user may be uploaded to a license synchronization server, and rebound to other devices registered with the service, thereby enabling access to the licensed content from other computing devices. A second digital license of a second computing device is set to expire prior to a first digital license of a first computing device. Reactivating a decayed first digital license, that is deactivated during transmission of the second digital license, to the second device to access content of the first computing device.