Patent ID: 7895123
Filing Date: 2011-02-22
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method implemented by a system that includes a content publisher, a digital content manager, a digital content publication server, a digital rights manager, and a content distributor, the method comprising: obtaining, by the digital content publication server, first data that identifies unprotected digital content that has been stored at the digital content manager and that has been selected by the content publisher for distribution or publication; obtaining, by the digital content publication server, second data from the digital content manager that causes a digital content publication module of the digital content publication server to be invoked; in response to obtaining the second data from the digital content manager, invoking the digital content publication module by the digital content publication server; in response to invoking the digital content publication module, receiving the unprotected digital content and metadata associated with the unprotected digital content from the digital content manager by the digital content publication server; generating, by the digital content publication server, an interface for display by the content publisher, wherein the interface allows the content publisher to enter publication information associated with the unprotected digital content; receiving, by the digital content publication server and from the content publisher, the publication information associated with the unprotected digital using the interface, the publication information comprising distribution information that identifies the content distributor that has been selected to distribute the digital content; protecting, by the digital content publication server, the unprotected digital content by one or more processors and the digital content publication module, further comprising; sending, by the digital content publication server, a rights label including the metadata and the publication information to the digital rights manager for registration by the digital rights manager; obtaining, by the digital content publication server and from the digital rights manager, third data that indicates that the rights label has been registered with the digital rights manager; and transmitting an alert, by the digital content publication server to the content distributor, to indicate that the content distributor can retrieve the rights label from the digital rights manager, making the protected digital content available for distribution from the digital content publication server to a customer of the content distributor.