Patent ID: 8640256

Claim:
A system for file operations and digital rights management (DRM), the system comprising: memory; one or more processors; a first application stored in the memory and executable by the one or more processors to request one or more files that are protected by at least one DRM content control; a second application stored in the memory and executable by the one or more processors to request the one or more files that are protected by the at least one DRM content control; and one or more file system components stored in the memory and executable by the one or more processors to respond to requests from the first and second applications for the one or more files, the one or more file system components configured to cause files of the one or more files with no complex DRM content controls to be decrypted and to provide the decrypted files to the first and second applications, the one or more file system components configured to create an identity-context-based cache of DRM-protected files so that a file that has been decrypted on behalf of and provided to the first application may be provided to the second application in response to determining that the first and second applications each correspond to a joint user context.