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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2004
Michael B. Diamond, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Jonathan B. White, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Piers J. Daniell, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Michael B. Diamond, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Jonathan B. White, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Piers J. Daniell, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention facilitates convenient and secure distribution of proprietary content. A present secure content enabled drive system and method permits flexible use of storage medium for both protected distribution of information and user definable storage use. In one embodiment a digital right management method includes creating a secure content enabled drive with protected storage locations and unprotected storage locations. Initial digital rights authorization is established to access secure content stored in said protected storage locations. The initial digital rights authorization to access secure content stored in said protected storage locations can be revised.