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Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2010

Filed:

May. 23, 2006
Applicants:

Alexander Bessonov, San Jose, CA (US);

John H. Grossman, Iv, Fremont, CA (US);

Inventors:

Alexander Bessonov, San Jose, CA (US);

John H. Grossman, IV, Fremont, CA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/04 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 21/00 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04N 7/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A rights management system is described in which, subsequent to recording a media resource, client-side equipment receives and stores recording definition information (RDI). The RDI provides information that can be used to recover the keys used to decrypt the media resource. When a client device subsequently wishes to consume the media resource, it can forward the RDI to an operations center. At the operations center, a transcription module validates the client device's rights and converts the RDI into client targeted information (CTI) by recovering the keys used to decrypt the media resource. The client device receives the CTI from the transcription module and uses it to consume the media resource. The CTI has an expiration date, after which it can no longer be used.


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