Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method of providing digital rights management for music content by means of a flat-rate subscription
- Patent Title (中): 通过固定费率订阅为音乐内容提供数字版权管理的方法
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Application No.: US12299505Application Date: 2007-05-08
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Publication No.: US08510847B2Publication Date: 2013-08-13
- Inventor: Mark Stephen Knight , Michael Ian Lamb , Robert John Lewis , Stephen William Pocock , Philip Anthony Sant , Mark Peter Sullivan , Christopher John Evans
- Applicant: Mark Stephen Knight , Michael Ian Lamb , Robert John Lewis , Stephen William Pocock , Philip Anthony Sant , Mark Peter Sullivan , Christopher John Evans
- Applicant Address: GB London
- Assignee: Omnifone Limited
- Current Assignee: Omnifone Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB London
- Agency: Saul Ewing LLP
- Priority: GB0608932.0 20060505; GB0608933.8 20060505; GB0608934.6 20060505; GB0608935.3 20060505; GB0608936.1 20060505; GB0702596.8 20070209
- International Application: PCT/GB2007/001675 WO 20070508
- International Announcement: WO2007/129081 WO 20071115
- Main IPC: G06F7/04
- IPC: G06F7/04

Abstract:
The invention enables digital music content to be downloaded to and used on a portable wireless computing device. An application running on the wireless device has been automatically adapted to parameters associated with the wireless device without end-user input (e.g. the application has been configured in dependence on the device OS and firmware, related bugs, screen size, pixel number, security models, connection handling, memory etc. This application enables an end-user to browse and search music content on a remote server using a wireless network; to download music content from that remote server using the wireless network and to playback and manage that downloaded music content. The application also includes a digital rights management system that enables unlimited legal downloads of different music tracks to the device and also enables any of those tracks stored on the device to be played so long as a subscription service has not terminated.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100031366A1 Method of Providing Digital Rights Management for Music Content by Means of a Flat-Rate Subscription Public/Granted day:2010-02-04
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