Patent ID: 9600639
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method implemented in a digital rights management server (RMS server) for automating the management and interpretation of digital documents and their rights metadata to generate user access of a document protected by digital rights management (DRM), the RMS server being connected to a first and a second external server which are different servers, the method comprising the steps of: the RMS server obtaining a digital document from the first external server and obtaining its associated rights metadata from the second external server; the RMS server interpreting the metadata to ascertain DRM useful information including identifications (IDs) of the document and its users and associated digital rights; the RMS server generating entries for a DRM database including policies associated with the document ID and users IDs based on the ascertained DRM useful information to enable DRM protection to the document, the policies being different from the metadata in format, the generating step including converting information obtained from the metadata into data items satisfying a format of the DRM database; and the RMS server storing the policies in the DRM database separate from the digital documents.