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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2015
Applicant:
Hgst Netherlands B.v., Amsterdam, NL;
Inventors:
Assignee:
HGST NETHERLANDS, B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/86 (2013.01); G06F 12/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/1458 (2013.01); G06F 21/86 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1052 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a digital rights management system that includes a storage module that stores a usage right for digital content in a tamper-resistant portion of a memory. The system also includes a flag status module that generates a flag corresponding with a transfer status of the usage right, sets the flag to one of a plurality of transfer statuses, and stores the flag in the tamper-resistant portion of the memory. The transfer statuses include a status indicating a request for the usage right was generated by a device with a usage right recovery mechanism.