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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2007
Filed:
May. 31, 2001
Bijan Tadayon, Germantown, MD (US);
Aram Nahidipour, Mill Creek, WA (US);
Xin Wang, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Michael C Raley, Downey, CA (US);
Guillermo Lao, Torrance, CA (US);
Thanh T Ta, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Charles P Gilliam, Darien, CT (US);
Bijan Tadayon, Germantown, MD (US);
Aram Nahidipour, Mill Creek, WA (US);
Xin Wang, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Michael C Raley, Downey, CA (US);
Guillermo Lao, Torrance, CA (US);
Thanh T Ta, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Charles P Gilliam, Darien, CT (US);
ContentGuard Holdings, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for facilitating transfer of usage rights for digital content. The system comprises digital content, a usage rights module containing usage rights information associated with the content for a user, a transfer permission module containing transfer permission information for the content, a current user identification module containing identity information indicating the identity of the user, and means for manipulating the current user identification module to change the identity information. The content can be transferred form one user to another and the current user identification module can be manipulated to reflect the current user and to permit the current user to have usage rights in the document.