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Systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection - Patent # 8572411 - PatentGenius
8572411 Systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection
Inventor: Ginter, et al.
Application: 12/780,702
Inventors: Ginter; Karl L. (Beltsville, MD)
Spahn; Francis J. (El Cerrito, CA)
Van Wie; David M. (Sunnyvale, CA)
U.S. Class: 713/194; 345/59; 380/32
Field Of Search: ;380/32; ;345/59
Foreign Patent Documents: 0128672; 0268139; 0297347; 0398493; 0399822; 0421409; 0538464; 0565314; 0590519; 0715243; 2688902; 2132831; 2264796; 01296363; 04-321136; 05173892; 05197732; 05258463; 06035637; 06035807; 06095870; 06103058; 06152585; 06161719; WO 89/06398; WO 90/02382; WO 90/13865; WO 92/20022; WO 93/01550; WO 96/24092
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Abstract: The present invention provides systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection. Electronic appliances such as computers equipped in accordance with the present invention help to ensure that information is accessed and used only in authorized ways, and maintain the integrity, availability, and/or confidentiality of the information. Such electronic appliances provide a distributed virtual distribution environment (VDE) that may enforce a secure chain of handling and control, for example, to control and/or meter or otherwise monitor use of electronically stored or disseminated information. Such a virtual distribution environment may be used to protect rights of various participants in electronic commerce and other electronic or electronic-facilitated transactions. Distributed and other operating systems, environments and architectures, such as, for example, those using tamper-resistant hardware-based processors, may establish security at each node. These techniques may be used to support an all-electronic information distribution, for example, utilizing the "electronic highway."
1. A method comprising: receiving electronic content at a first user's electronic appliance, the appliance comprising a secure processing unit, the electronic content having been sentfrom a second user's electronic appliance, wherein the secure processing unit prevents unauthorized access to its components by selectively allowing data originating outside of the secure processing unit to cross a tamper-resistant security barrier andenter the secure processing unit, and by processing the allowed data within a compartmentalized secure execution space that prevents less trusted data from modifying more trusted data; receiving, at the first user's electronic appliance, controlinformation associated with the electronic content, the control information indicating that the electronic content may be used only in one or more authorized ways; and using a software application running on the first user's electronic appliance toenable the first user to make at least one use of the electronic content in accordance with the control information, wherein the software application is configured to be resistant to attempts by users of the first electronic appliance to use theelectronic content in unauthorized ways, and wherein the software application is operable to communicate with the secure processing unit to obtain information necessary to decrypt the electronic content.
2. The method of claim 1, in which control information is received separately from the electronic content.
3. The method of claim 1, in which the control information is received at the first user's electronic appliance from the second user's electronic appliance together with the electronic content.
4. The method of claim 3, in which control information is received together with the electronic content in a secure electronic container.
5. The method of claim 4, in which the electronic content is encrypted within the secure electronic container, and in which the secure electronic container includes an unencrypted header.
6. The method of claim 1, in which the control information further indicates that the electronic content may be used only by one or more designated users, the method further comprising: using the software application on the first user'selectronic appliance to determine that the first user is one of said one or more designated users.
7. The method of claim 1, in which the secure processing unit comprises memory storing one or more cryptographic keys and memory interface logic that is operable to prevent unauthorized access to the memory from outside the secure processingunit.
8. The method of claim 1, in which the software application comprises a word processor.
9. The method of claim 1, in which the software application comprises an electronic mail program.
10. The method of claim 9, in which the electronic content comprises an electronic mail message.
11. The method of claim 1, in which the electronic content comprises an electronic memorandum, an electronic mail message, a text file, and/or a multimedia file.
12. The method of claim 1, in which the control information includes a requirement that a recipient of the electronic content contact the second user before using the electronic content, the method further comprising: sending a request from thefirst user to the second user for permission to use the electronic content; and receiving permission from the second user.
13. The method of claim 1, further comprising: sending a request from the first user's electronic appliance to the second user's electronic appliance, the request seeking a modification to the control information; receiving at the first user'selectronic appliance from the second user's electronic appliance a modified set of control information in response to the request.
14. The method of claim 1, in which the control information specifies one or more auditing requirements, the method further comprising: sending auditing information to the second user's electronic appliance in compliance with the auditingrequirements.
15. The method of claim 14, in which the one or more auditing requirements include a requirement that a recipient of the electronic content send an indication of how the electronic content has been used.
16. The method of claim 14, in which the one or more auditing requirements include a requirement that a recipient of the electronic content send an indication if the electronic content has been printed by the recipient.
17. The method of claim 14, in which the one or more auditing requirements include a requirement that a recipient of the electronic content send an indication if the electronic content has been viewed by the recipient.
18. The method of claim 14, in which the one or more auditing requirements include a requirement that a recipient of the electronic content send an indication if the electronic content has been stored by the recipient.
19. The method of claim 14, in which the one or more auditing requirements include a requirement that a recipient of the electronic content send an indication if the electronic content been edited by the recipient.
20. The method of claim 1, in which the control information specifies that certain or all information in the electronic content may be extracted by an authorized recipient.
21. The method of claim 1, in which the control information specifies that the electronic content may be redistributed by an authorized recipient.
22. The method of claim 1, in which the one or more authorized ways include viewing the electronic content.
23. The method of claim 1, in which the one or more authorized ways include printing the electronic content.
24. The method of claim 1, in which the one or more authorized ways include copying the electronic content.
25. The method of claim 1, in which the one or more authorized ways include extracting text from, and/or embedding text within, the electronic content.
26. The method of claim 1, in which the one or more authorized ways include redistributing the electronic content.
27. The method of claim 1, in which the control information is configured to govern at least two of the following uses of the electronic content: viewing the electronic content, printing the electronic content, copying the electronic content,or modifying the electronic content.
28. A computer-readable medium containing a software application comprising executable program instructions, the executable program instructions including instructions for: receiving electronic content and first control information associatedwith the electronic content, the first control information indicating that the electronic content may be used only in one or more authorized ways; separately receiving second control information associated with the electronic content; and applying thefirst control information and the second control information to enable at least one use of the electronic content in accordance with the first control information and the second control information; wherein the software application is configured to beresistant to attempts to use the electronic content in unauthorized ways, and wherein the executable program instructions further include instructions for decrypting the electronic content using at least one cryptographic key retrieved from a secureprocessing unit; wherein the secure processing unit prevents unauthorized access to its components by selectively allowing data originating outside the secure processing unit to cross a tamper-resistant security barrier and enter the secure processingunit, and by processing the allowed data within a compartmentalized secure execution space that prevents less trusted data from modifying more trusted data.
29. The computer-readable medium of claim 28, in which the first control information further indicates that the electronic content may be used by one or more designated users, and in which the second control information indicates that theelectronic content may be used by one or more additional users.
30. The computer-readable medium of claim 28, in which the second control information indicates that the electronic content may be used in one or more additional authorized ways.
31. The computer-readable medium of claim 28, in which the first control information includes a first expiration date, and in which the second control information includes a second expiration date after the first expiration date.
32. The computer-readable medium of claim 28, in which the first control information includes a requirement that a return receipt be sent to a remote electronic appliance, and in which the executable program instructions further includeinstructions for sending a return receipt to a remote electronic appliance from which the electronic content was received.
33. The computer-readable medium of claim 28, in which the first control information includes one or more auditing requirement, and in which the executable program instructions further include instructions for complying with the auditingrequirements.
34. The computer-readable medium of claim 33, in which the one or more auditing requirements include a requirement that a recipient of the electronic content send an indication of how the electronic content has been used.
35. The computer-readable medium of claim 33, in which the one or more auditing requirements include a requirement that a recipient of the electronic content send an indication if the electronic content has been printed by the recipient.
36. The computer-readable medium of claim 33, in which the one or more auditing requirements include a requirement that a recipient of the electronic content send an indication if the electronic content has been viewed by the recipient.
37. The computer-readable medium of claim 33, in which the one or more auditing requirements include a requirement that a recipient of the electronic content send an indication if the electronic content has been edited by the recipient.
38. The computer-readable medium of claim 28, in which the first control information specifies that certain or all information in the electronic content may be extracted by an authorized recipient.
39. The computer-readable medium of claim 28, in which the first control information specifies that the electronic content may be redistributed by an authorized recipient.
40. The computer-readable medium of claim 28, in which the one or more authorized ways include viewing the electronic content.
41. The computer-readable medium of claim 28, in which the one or more authorized ways include printing the electronic content.
42. The computer-readable medium of claim 28, in which the one or more authorized ways include copying the electronic content.
43. The computer-readable medium of claim 28, in which the one or more authorized ways include extracting text from, or embedding text within, the electronic content.
44. The computer-readable medium of claim 28, in which the one or more authorized ways include redistributing the electronic content.
45. The computer-readable medium of claim 28, in which the first control information is configured to govern at least two of the following uses of the electronic content: viewing the electronic content, printing the electronic content, copyingthe electronic content, or modifying the electronic content.
46. The computer-readable medium of claim 28, in which the software application comprises a word processor or an electronic mail program.
47. A method comprising: creating electronic content at a first user's electronic appliance; at the first user's electronic appliance, securely associating control information with the electronic content, the control information indicatingthat the electronic content may be used only in one or more authorized ways, the control information being configured to be enforced by tamper-resistant software and/or hardware to govern use of the electronic content; distributing the electroniccontent and the control information to a second user's electronic appliance that comprises a secure processing unit, wherein the secure processing unit prevents unauthorized access to its components by selectively allowing data originating outside of thesecure processing unit to cross a tamper-resistant security barrier and enter the secure processing unit, and by processing the allowed data within a compartmentalized secure execution space that prevents less trusted data from modifying more trusteddata; and at the second user's electronic appliance, securely enabling the second user to make at least one use of the electronic content in accordance with the control information, in which software and/or hardware at the second user's electronicappliance is operable to perform, at least in part, said securely enabling step, said software and/or hardware at the second user's electronic appliance being resistant to tampering by the second user with the performance of said securely enabling step,and said software and/or hardware being operable to communicate with the secure processing unit to obtain information necessary to decrypt the electronic content.
48. The method of claim 47, further comprising: sending a request from the second user, the request seeking a modification to the control information; and receiving a modified set of control information in response to the request.
49. The method of claim 47, in which the one or more authorized ways include at least two of the following: viewing the electronic content, printing the electronic content, copying the electronic content, or modifying the electronic content.
50. The method of claim 47, in which the control information specifies that the electronic content may be redistributed by an authorized recipient.
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