Thursdays the Patent Office publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Ericsson, the first application discloses for establishing a secured communication channel for communicating digital content. Assigned to Tata Consultancy Services (IN), the second application discloses techniques for access rights management in enterprise digital rights management systems.
20130047264, "Method and Device for Communicating Digital Content," assigned to ST-Ericsson SA (CH).
Abstract
A method for establishing a secured communication channel, between a first processing component and a second processing component; the method comprising executing a digital rights management agent on a processing unit, the digital rights management agent being configured to enforce permissions associated with digital content based on a digital rights management protection mechanism; receiving, by the digital rights management agent at least a security data item, the security data item including a session key data item; verifying authenticity of the received session key data item by the digital rights management agent using said digital rights management protection mechanism; providing the verified session key data item by the digital rights management agent to at least the second processing component; establishing a secured communication channel between the first and second processing components using at least the provided session key data item.20130036475, "Access rights management in enterprise digital rights management systems," assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Limited (IN).
Abstract
Systems and methods for obtaining access rights to an encrypted document are described. The method comprises receiving a request for obtaining access rights to the encrypted document from a requestor, through an eDRM interface. The method further comprises generating a request inbox corresponding to a granter of the encrypted document. The request inbox contains at least the request received from the requestor. The generated request inbox is sent to the granter through the eDRM interface. The method furthermore comprises obtaining a response to the request from the granter, and providing a status alert indicative of the response to the requestor through the eDRM interface.
