Patent ID: 7363651

Claim:
A system f or digital content access control, comprising: a first user device configured to: receive an authenticated digital content request in response to sending a digital content request comprising a request for digital content wherein said authenticated digital content request includes said request for digital content; and send said authenticated digital content request; a content provisioner configured to send said authenticated digital content request to said first user device, wherein said content provisioner, following receipt of said digital content request, creates said authenticated digital content request when a user associated with said digital content request is authorized to access and use said digital content; a content repository configured to send said digital content to a second user device, following receipt of said authenticated digital content request, when said authenticated digital content request is associated with said digital content; and a synchronizer, coupled to said content provisioner and to said content repository, configured to: determine a synchronization event for synchronization of information used by said content provisioner to create said authenticated digital content request with information used by said content repository to validate said authenticated digital content request; and send said synchronized information to at least one of said content provisioner and said content repository in response to said synchronization event.