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`Petitioner Apple Inc. - Ex. 1020, p. l
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`Petitioner Apple Inc. - Ex. 1020, p. 1
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`Xin Wang, and Bij an Tadayon
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`Rights offering and granting:
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`(All other pending and issued ContentGuard’s patent applications are
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`incorporated here by reference.)
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`This invention relates to the general process of digital rights management (DRM).
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`There is a process to make an offer. The user sends a request, and then a license
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`is constructed. The request is a subset of offer, and offer has many options. The
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`distributor makes the offer available to the users, and each user makes a request. Then
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`the distributor looks at the request, and constructs the grant. Note that the request can
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`also be rejected, and thus, is not granted.
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`The grant is generated based on the dynamic information, the user’s information,
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`and the request.
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`As explained in some of our co-pending applications, which are incorporated here
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`by reference, the dynamic information may include any information related to pricing,
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`status of the network, the traffic of the web site at each moment of time, discounts given,
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`coupons given, the habits of the user, how many times the content has been used, for how
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`long the content was used, where it was used, what is the geographical location of the
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`user, how often the content is used, the quality of the content, resolution of the images,
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`what is the security clearance of the user, if the user is within a trusted zone, or if the
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`license is open license or if it is closed license.
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`Petitioner Apple Inc. - Ex. 1020, p. 2
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`Petitioner Apple Inc. - Ex. 1020, p. 2
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`For example, the dynamic information can be obtained based on a formula,
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`database, curve, predetermined table, percentage of a Value, a function, and/ or by a
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`human intervention/ user input.
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`The parameters specified in XIML language is also incorporated here by
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`reference. Those parameters are also incorporated within the meaning of the dynamic
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`information, described above.
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`Generally, the dynamic information makes the DRM solution Very flexible and
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`powerful, and makes the right assignment Very comprehensive for the content owner,
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`thus, encouraging more DRM usage and acceptance in the market.
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`The user’s information may also include the following parameters:
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`the age of the
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`user, the credit history of the user, credit limit of the user, income of the user, what kind
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`of rights or licenses obtained, the password of the user, the key assigned to the user, club
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`membership for access or discount, class of the user based on a predetermined criteria, or
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`any other personal data or identification characteristics.
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`Petitioner Apple Inc. - Ex. 1020, p. 3
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`Petitioner Apple Inc. - Ex. 1020, p. 3