Patent ID: 6968996

Claim:
A rights management system for managing use of items having usage rights associated therewith by enforcement of the usage rights with repositories, the system comprising: a client device adapted to request an item and receive the item and a license including a usage right associated with the item and specifying a permitted manner of use of the item; and a server device adapted to send the item and the associated usage right to the client device in response to the request; wherein the client device includes means for establishing a communication between the client device and a third party entity associated with the rights management system based on a received item and associated usage right, the means for establishing a communication establishes a communication between the client device and the third party entity comprising a web server associated with the rights management system, the means for establishing passes information to the server device based on activity of the client device at the web server, and an address for establishing a communication between the client device and the web server associated with the rights management system is specified by the associated usage right.