Patent ID: 8555405
Filing Date: 2013-10-08
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for the authorization management of digital contents between at least one owner of an authorization with a first electronic work environment and at least one user of contents with a second electronic work environment for using the first electronic work environment to provide the digital contents to the user of the contents at a certain scope of authorization that corresponds to a level of functionality for the digital contents, such that the user of the contents is able to use the provided digital contents on the second electronic work environment only at the level of functionality defined by the scope of authorization comprising: the first electronic work environment encoding the digital contents with encryption to create encoded contents; exchanging the encoded contents between the first electronic work environment and the second electronic work environment; the second electronic work environment decoding the encoded contents to become digital contents; wherein the first electronic work environment or the second electronic work environment is equipped with a reference list providing a plurality of scopes of authorization, including the certain scope of authorization, each scope of authorization on the reference list having a unique associated encryption and decryption such that the encoding by first electronic work environment occurs using the encryption associated with the certain scope of authorization from the reference list, and the decoding of the encoded contents by the second electronic work environment is performed using the decryption associated with the certain scope of authorization from the reference list; the second electronic work environment only providing the digital contents to the user of the contents at the level of functionality defined by the scope of authorization corresponding to the decryption.