Patent ID: 7065508
Filing Date: 2006-06-20
Classification: G03B,G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for operating a licensing server, communicating over a communications network with one or more programs residing on one or more remotely located devices, to distribute license data to a plurality of users to access one or more items of protected information at said remotely located devices, the method comprising: receiving, at a licensing server, an identifier previously unknown to the licensing server and associated with a request for access to the one or more items of protected information, the request having been generated by a program at a remotely located device, the identifier being based at least in part on one or more characteristics of an entity to which access to the one or more items of protected information is linked, different such characteristics being usable to provide access to different ones of the one or more items of protected information; generating, at the licensing server, license data for providing access to the one or more items of protected information, using at least the identifier; and transmitting the license data over a communications network to a location accessible to the remotely digital located device.