Digital work structure

Details Digital work structure Digital work structure

2005-07-19

2005-07-19

Trammell, James P. (Department: 3621)

Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co

Business processing using cryptography

Usage protection of distributed data files

C705S052000, C705S053000, C705S054000, C705S055000, C705S056000, C705S057000, C705S058000, C705S059000, C705S050000, C380S201000, C707S793000, C707S793000, C713S182000, C713S183000, C713S184000, C713S185000, C713S186000

Reexamination Certificate

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06920436

ABSTRACT:
A digital work for use within a rights management system for controlling use of the digital work in accordance with usage rights. The work is organized into an acyclic structure and includes a contents file including information related to content that can be interpreted by an interpreter, and a description tree file including descriptor blocks organized in a hierarchical manner. At least some of the descriptor blocks contain usage rights associated with the content. The usage rights specify a manner of use for the content.

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