Patent ID: 8955150
Filing Date: 2015-02-10
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A digital rights management (DRM) apparatus comprising: a first file and a second file adapted to comprise digital right contents; and a virtual machine (VM) management unit adapted to control a user's authority function to access the file in a region to which a virtualization technology is applied, which is a region independent from an application program of the file; wherein the VM management unit determines a user's authority to access the first file and the second file, generates a first VM for executing the first file corresponding to the determined user's authority for the first file, and, if the user's authority between the first file and the second file is the same, executes the second file on the first VM, and if not, executes the second file on a second VM; and wherein the VM management unit is stored in a storage unit of a computing system, loaded in a memory unit of the computing system and performed by a Central Processing Unit (CPU) of the computing system.