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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2005
Carmi Bogot, Maaleh Adumim, IL;
Hillel Solow, Beit Shemesh, IL;
Carmi Bogot, Maaleh Adumim, IL;
Hillel Solow, Beit Shemesh, IL;
NDS Limited, Staines, Middlesex, GB;
Abstract
A digital rights management system including a controlled content disk to store content in an encrypted format, and a processor to run a plurality of applications and a secure device driver thereon, the processor being operationally associated with the controlled content disk, the applications being unable to decrypt content from the encrypted format, the secure device driver having a receiving module to receive a request from one of the applications to access the content, a validation module to validate the request based upon a recognized access pattern to the content by the one application, and a transport module to transfer the content from the controlled content disk to the one application, contingent upon a positive result of the validating of the validation module. Related apparatus and methods are also described.