Patent ID: 7934263
Filing Date: 2011-04-26
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of acquiring a license in a hub network, comprising: sending a license request from a client to a server; sending a connection confirmation from said client to said server; and receiving a sub-copy license at said client from said server in response to said license request; wherein said client and said server are connected in a hub network and are members of said hub network, wherein said license request identifies a sub-copy version of content stored on said client, said sub-copy version including sub-copy locked content data, wherein said sub-copy version is a copy of a source version of content, the source version being a source for generating the sub-copy version of content which is provided to the client through the hub network when client is connected to the server, wherein said source version is bound to the hub network and stored on said server, and said sub-copy version is bound to members of said hub network, and wherein the sub-copy version being bound to the members of the hub network indicates that the content cannot be freely copied onto other media unless a compliant device first requests to unbind the sub-copy version of the content from the hub network by changing the bound sub-copy version to a discrete version before the sub-copy version can be removed.