Patent ID: 8631505
Filing Date: 2014-01-14
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: one or more processors; and computer-readable storage media encoded with instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, instruct the one or more processors to perform acts for enabling permissible transfer of access rights to digital goods among different users, the acts comprising: storing a digital good obtained from an authorized source in a cloud data store, wherein a digital good in the cloud data store is accessible by a user device associated with a first user through an account of a first user wherein the access rights stored in the account of the first user at a network resource server accessible by said user device determine the first user's access to the digital good, and wherein the digital good is a digital good in which the first user has legitimately obtained access rights; determining that the access rights to the digital good are available for transfer from the account of the first user; providing an indication that the access rights to the digital good are available for transfer from the account of the first user; receiving a request to transfer the access rights to the digital good to the account of a second user, wherein the digital good in the cloud data store is accessible by a user device associated with the second user through said account of said second user wherein the access rights stored in the account of the second user at a network resource server accessible by said user device determine the second user's access to the digital good; upon authorization of the request to transfer the access rights to the digital good to the account of the second user, exclusively transferring the access rights to the digital good from the account of the first user to the account of the second user while said digital good remains in said cloud data store without transferring the digital good; and deleting the access rights to the digital good from the account of the first user, thereby excluding the account associated with the first user from accessing the digital good.