Patent ID: 8010800
Filing Date: 2011-08-30
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A DRM-enabled search engine for locating digital rights management (DRM)-encrypted content available via a network, the DRM-enabled search engine comprising: a crawler that issues requests over a network to one or more servers to access DRM-encrypted content and receives, in return, DRM-encrypted content for purposes of indexing said content, the crawler having a DRM identity that can be recognized by a DRM system to distinguish itself from end users and other DRM-enabled search engines; and a DRM module that communicates the DRM identity of the crawler to the DRM system to conditionally obtain access rights comprising one or more decryption keys from the DRM system for the received DRM-encrypted content based on the DRM identity, the DRM module being adapted to use the access rights to temporarily decrypt said received DRM-encrypted content for purposes of indexing said content, wherein the crawler parses the received content previously decrypted by the DRM module to index said content, produces processed data based on said decrypted content, and adds said processed data to a searchable index, wherein a user of the DRM-enabled search engine is able to locate the indexed DRM-encrypted content on the network from outside of the DRM system by performing a search query on the searchable index, and wherein a content owner is able to revoke rights to access and index content from a specific DRM-enabled search engine using the DRM identity of the crawler.