On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applicaitons concern aspects of digital rights management. The first application discloses techniques for facilitating client-side digital rights compliance, no assignee given. Assigned to Philips (NL), the second applicaiton discloses techniques for restoring domain management.
20120180105, "Systems, methods, and apparatus for facilitating client-side digital rights compliance," no assignee given.
Abstract
According to one aspect there is provided a method and an apparatus for facilitating intellectual property rights compliance that is compliant with a same-origin security policy that prohibits the application from executing application-specific instructions from the first domain that access application-specific instructions from the second domain. The method includes receiving a structured document from a first domain, the structured document having at least one content object, a reference to at least one digital rights compliance (DRC) object located on a second domain and associated with the at least one content object, and application-specific instructions being executable by the application. The at least one DRC object is defined in a non-executable format and contains information indicative of rights associated with the at least one content.
20120167226, "Method and system for restoring domain management," assigned to Philips (NL).
Abstract
The invention relates to a method and a system for restoring domain management for a domain (108) in which content access rights are shared between one or more devices (106, 110, 112, 118, 122, 124), wherein the domain management was executed by a first domain management device (106) and is discontinued by this first domain management device (106). The first domain management device (106) registers one or more characteristics of the domain (108) at a domain registration server (114). After discontinuation of the domain management by the first domain management device (106), a second domain management device (118) sends a request to the domain registration server (114) for obtaining the right to manage the domain (108). The domain registration server (114) provides the right to manage the domain (108) together with at least one of the one or more registered characteristics of the domain (108). The invention further relates to a domain registration server (114) and a domain management device (106, 118) for use in the system for restoring domain management.
