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`Inventors: Xin Wang, Biian Tadayon, Michael Raley, Guillermo Lao, Thomas
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`DeMartini Charles Gilliam and Eddie Chen.
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`U.S. patents 5,629,980, 5,634,012, 5,638,443, and 5,715,403, filed in November
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`23, 1994, the disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference) deal
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`with the rights associated with the digital content. These will be the basis of our
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`systems and methods described below.
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`However, the concept of rights and permission for access can be extended
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`(generalized) to cover all tangible items (such as a lamp, a car, etc.), non-
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`tangible or non-physical items (such as a digital work (for example, music, text
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`files, books, reports, video, multimedia, pictures, or any combination of those)),
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`services, goods, purchase orders, procedures, exchanges, and futures
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`commodities.
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`(The concept of having rights and conditions associated with
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`digital content can be applied to things other than digital content — in other words,
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`rights and conditions can be associated with any physical or non-physical thing
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`or service for which its use, access or execution is to be controlled or monitored
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`in some fashion.)
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`Furthermore, the same grammar that associates permission for access to items
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`can serve as the authentication mechanism (certificate) for a principal. The
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`principal may be a human being or a physical entity. The certificate may
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`prescribe the social status such as a job function or grade/ranking in an
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`organization, or the function/services provided by a physical entity.
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`To ensure the integrity of the rights expression (license or certificate) expressed
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`by the grammar, cryptographic technologies such as digital signature and
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`encryption may be applied to either the parts or the entire license or certificate.
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`When applying the cryptographictechnologies, the grammar guarantees that any
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`semantically significant parts of the rights expression can be protected against
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`tamper. When the rights expression is issued by multiple issuers, the grammar
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` insures the integrity of the rights expression on behalf of all the issuers.
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`This includes stock (or other markets) exchange, for example, buying or selling in
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`advance or at a threshold.
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`(Rights and conditions that are associated with
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`execution orders for buying or selling stocks.) For example, the customer can
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`obtain the right to buy 1000 shares of stock of a specific company at a fixed
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`price, between two thresholds, at a specified future time, with a margin call,
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`change the type of stock (commonl preferred), or converting stock options to
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`regular stocks. There may be rights associated with the stocks during the
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`bankruptcy proceedings, as to who can cash out first.
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`For real estate, the owner’s right on the property can be expressed as, for
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`example, joint-tenant or tenant—in-common, with the option to convert to other
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`options, with the change of the percentage of the ownerships, and designation of
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`the survivorship option.
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`For professional services, one can buy the right to visit the dentists’ office in an
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`association for a period of 1 year, while paying only a fixed or variable co-
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`payment for each visit, up to a maximum amount. Or, use the right to consult a
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`lawyer or an accountant for a period of time, fixed number of times, or regarding
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`a specific project or account.
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`One can buy the right for services offered by an organization, in advance,
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`including the rights associated with the intellectual properties, such as patents,
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`copyright, and trademarks. This can apply to software programmers, customer
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`service, training outfits, or other technical services.
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`One can obtain a right and later sell that right to a third—party, if such transfers
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`are authorized. This gives mobility and liquidity to different kind of assets, make
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`it possible to expand the regular stock market to include rights to other non-
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`physical items or services. More money can exchange hands, and the economy
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`can benefit from that. The exchange of rights and auctioning rights have been
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`described in some of our previous disclosures in more details.
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`This includes any kind of coupons, gift—certificates, rain-checks, exchange
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`certificates, returns, and store-specific coupons (Rights and conditions that are
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`associated with the redemption of coupons or certificates).
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`This includes any kind of financial account or transaction such as certificates of
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`deposit, checking accounts, wires, e-mails, Morse Codes, fund transfer, currency
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`exchange, locking on current or future interest rates, points paid for the loan,
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`bonds, loans, secondary loans, and stocks (any of which may have one or more
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`attributes such as maturity dates or deadlines), issued by banks, mortgage
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`institutions, or others (Rights and conditions associated with the access to
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`something or execution of something).
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`This includes the right for future tangible or intangible things such as books
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`(printed or electronic) or music (albums or electronic) for an author or artist. The
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`right could be for during or after a period of time or for a predetermined number
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`of units, such as units of CDs or books. (Rights and conditions to use for future)
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`This includes the rights expressed for a will or a trust for the distribution of
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`property or other assets, or for the provision of rights, services or benefits for
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`persons, entities and other things.
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`(Rights and conditions associated with the
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`transfer or distribution of assets (conditions include obligations))
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`This includes the right for the public and private keys, access to levels of
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`security, and changing or administration of the same.
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`This includes structures based on hierarchical models, flat models, or any
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`combinations of these.
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`The teaching of this current disclosure can be added to our previous teachings
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`(in our previous patents and patent applications, whose specifications are
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`incorporated herein by reference), for example, as the extensions of XrML
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`language, or the new tags, enabling the specification and operation for the rights,
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`conditions, and situations as noted in the examples below.
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`Access Control to Services:
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`As we treat services and privacy data as content, the rights and conditions
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`applied to distribution and usage of content generally apply to goods, services,
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`privacy data and other things. Tracking the access to these things or to rights in
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`them is also important. It may also be important to track information in addition to
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`access or to obtain fees or other things in connection with granting access or
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`rights.
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`A provider of goods, service or other things provides the conditions. A
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`user wants the access to the good, service or other thing (or particular rights),
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`and thus, has to satisfy those conditions. This concept works equally well
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`regardless of the direction or order in which information moves. A user can
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`supply the conditions to the supplier and the supplier has to satisfy those
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`conditions to make a sale. Furthermore, a partial satisfaction of conditions could
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`result in access, a transaction or other result which is the same or different as
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`compared to the full satisfaction. All of this can be done automatically.
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`For access, distribution or use of content, one can set conditions for
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`access to services or things. For example, the user may wish to go to a web site;
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`however, as a condition of access to the web site, the user has to be located in a
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`specific geographical area (for example in the United States). This is useful for
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`localization of the web site, in terms of the translation, customization or other
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`determination of the content including in terms of local customs, news, culture,
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`hobbies, local sport news, local news makers, local industry, local merchandise,
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`or local advertisements (to mention a few examples), selected based on the
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`predetermined content or additions/ modifications chosen for that specific area or
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`locality. The predetermined content or additions/modifications could be changed
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`from time to time as conditions warrant. For example, if the customer is located
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`in the United States, the English spellings used are the American versions, and
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`the advertisements are based on the American taste, season, or political climate
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`at that moment. The localization increases the appeal of the web site, and thus,
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`improves customer satisfaction and traffic of the web site or volume of sale.
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`Another benefit is that the content owner may want to release a specific content
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`in the United States first, and three months later in Europe. This is common in
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`movie industry, where the different releases in different geographical areas are
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`restricted based on a time schedule designed to give maximum benefit to the
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`content owner. The release dates and / ortime tables can all be incorporated
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`into the DRM solution, as parameters in a template, so that the assignment or
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`modifications of the time table would be easy for the content owner, and keeping
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`track of the times can be done automatically, without further human intervention,
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`for ease of use and more confidence/ security.
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`Another example is when a crawler collects data and gathers information
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`from a web site. The person in control of the web site could, as a condition to
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`access the web site, require the crawler to access or request the access after
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`midnight when the web site traffic is at a minimum, and therefore, loads are
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`reduced. Additionally, the web site could impose varying conditions on the ability
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`or right of the web crawler to access the site such as by specifying that the
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`access is timed out after a certain period of time if access is obtained during
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`peak hours.
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`Furthermore, one can specify how to get access. For example, one can
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`specify how the users distribute the content (for example, by super-distribution).
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`This gives more control to the content owner, as to where and by what method
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`the distribution is conducted. The geographical location restriction is one
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`parameter. The parameters of the super-distribution could also be specified by
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`the content owner, to further limit the method of distribution, in terms of expiration
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`date, number of copies, and the people forbidden to get a copy (from some
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`forbidden list, which for example, for some reason are identified as unfriendly
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`customers, such as known hackers). This could work equally well when the
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`specifying is done by users. For example, the user could specify whether or not
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`he wishes to have the right to super—distribute.
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`Or, one user may want to share his / her personal calendar with his / her
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`friends, however, as a condition of access to the calendar, the user may require
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`his / her friends to do a specific task or satisfy a condition (for example, open one
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`specific file or share his own calendar), first. The calendar can be used and
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`edited by the all friends or some of the friends who have the right to input,
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`modify, or edit. Some of the friends may have the right to use-only, or use—and-
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`input-only, with no modification rights. The calendar can keep track of conflict of
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`schedules for two or more people, which automatically notifies the conflicting
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` highlight the unavailable days, when one or more parties are out of town or
` common acceptable dates or hours, based on the input by one or more users.
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`parties or all of the people in the list about the conflict. The calendar can also
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`unavailable for other reasons. The calendar can also suggest some days or
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`hours that the calendar is relatively empty, or for a specified parties, find the
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`Another example is the print shop, where one can specify some policy to
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`restrict the access of users to printing services. For example, the user may send
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`a large file to be printed by the print shop, for a fee. However, as a way of
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`managing the job orders, the smaller files get printed sooner (have higher
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`priority). The size of the files within a predetermined time frame are compared
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`and ordered for printing purposes. However, if a job must be printed regardless
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`of the size before a deadline, then the length of the printing process is estimated,
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`and the job schedule is modified to fit that in, to make the deadline. This out-of-
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`order prioritization is signified by a flag or a variable (or set of variables/
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`parameters), which contains the order of priority, the information about the
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`deadline, or the like.
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`In the case of the conflict of the schedules or having not
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`enough time to satisfy all the deadlines, the jobs in a class with a higher priority
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`will jump in front of the other jobs. Thus, the size is important only within a
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`specific class of priority. Other examples of how this may operate in the print
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`shop example is that for a fee (or satisfaction of other condition) a print job might
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`jump the queue or colorjobs and black and while jobs could be routed to different
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`printers or the user may specify the priority he desires (and such desires may
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`require various fees or satisfaction of various conditions). For assignment of
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`print jobs, priority assignment, class of printjobs, negotiating the prices and fees,
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`and the moving of priorities, one can assign rights to customers and print jobs,
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`and express those rights using any grammar or language.
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`As a service provider, one can set conditions for quality: A lower quality
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`image can be purchased for less money. For example, the resolution can be
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`corresponded to the price, based on a table, a formula, a function, or values on a
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`curve. This apply equally to variations other than quality such as, for example,
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`speed or timing, and the variation could be based on a condition other than
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`varying money paid.
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`Another example is the person who changes or sets the time for a
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`computer network, in which case the condition is the identification of the person
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`as the system administrator. Thus, the identification is based on the role of the
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`individual, which can be established by a smart card, ID, or the like. The role-
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`based model makes the change in the right assignment or change in the position
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`of the individuals much easier.
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`in general, one can specify how people use or access goods, services or
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`other things (or rights in any of them) accessing both on-line and off-line. The
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`content owner or the distributor will have more control on the content (and the
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`user can have better management over what rights he wants to obtain), and that
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`provides security and peace of mind.
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`Air Fares and Car Rentals (or any similar situations):
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`Right assignment can become very useful for situations in which the
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`content provider is not the same as the content seller, such as for air fares and
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`car rentals (or applying to any physical, digital, tangible, or non-tangible items).
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` site, airline direct sales, travel agency, an individual having the right to transfer or
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`For example, one can buy one or more round-trip tickets between Boston
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`and Chicago, from a web site, which can be an auction site, a reverse-auction
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`resell the tickets, a clearinghouse, reseller, or a warehouse. The destination
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`place, the starting place, or both could be variables. For example, it can be a
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`ticket from Boston to any city in Eastern part of the United States, within 2000
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`miles, or with no limit on mileage to any city in the Continental United States.
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`can have the right for exchange to another ticket within the European Continent.
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`Or, it can be exchanged to a ticket in Asia, provided that a fixed or variable fee
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`for the difference is paid.
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`In addition, it can be converted to dollars, points,
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`coupons, or mileage points, for purchase of merchandise from the affiliated
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`retailers or stay at hotels. For busy seasons (determined time windows), one
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`may require an extra fee to cover the charges. One may use this as float or
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`stand-by, in which a partial refund is due to the owner of the ticket. All of the
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`rights to do the actions mentioned above can be expressed by a grammar/
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`languagel tags. The license and the various ways to manipulate the rights have
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`been described in our previous disclosures and patents.
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`Another example is that one can rent a car for 6 days in Boston from any
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`car rental company, which have contract with a clearinghouse and recognizes
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`the rights offered as a valid right. Or, it can specify one or more car rental
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`companies.
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`It can specify the mileage limits, dropping locations, size of the car,
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`model/ year of the car, manufacturer of the car, pick-up locations, color of the
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`car, or various equipment in the car as additional features. The right can be
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`expressed using a coupon for 6 days within the month of August. The owner
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`may not know exactly when or where he/ she may be using the coupon. That
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` gives a lot of flexibility to the right assignment and the right owner.
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`The concept of inventory of extra seats (for example, surplus of tickets for
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`movie seats or rental cars, in which not a one-to-one relationship necessarily
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`exists) available can also be incorporated here in this scheme, with option of
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`limitations on position of seats (in a theater, for example), or the maximum seats
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`available (or based on first-come first-served).
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`For example, one buys a movie ticket from a generic web site, and goes to
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`a movie theater which accepts that kind of tickets and has a contract with the
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`distributor or owner (similar to the relationship that MasterCard Corporation has
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`with various issuing banks, with respect to customers and card holders, or even
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`similar to a more centralized control, such as the one by American Express
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`Cards). Thus, in general, there might be more than one kind of distributors of
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`rights, issuing entities, contract providers, or kinds of tickets, each may have their
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`own logos, terms, conditions, and associations, with possible reciprocal
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`acceptances across boundaries of associations, for maximizing the acceptance
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`areas and ease of use for customers, similar to the ATM cards and banks. After
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`honoring the tickets, the theater owner can aggregate the tickets each day (for
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`example), and gets reimbursed for those, similar to the relationship between Visa
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`merchants and Visa Corporation. Again, the rights can be expressed in any
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`form, such as tags, grammar, or a new language.
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`The option to lease or buy the car can be added, with specification of
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`model and color/ options on the car. The option of future tickets or seats can be
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`added in this scheme, as well, for even events with vague or not-yet-known dates
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`or specifications.
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`Rights offering and granting:
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`There is a process to make an offer. The user sends a request, and then
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`a license is constructed. The construction of the license could be done by either
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`the user or the distributor but in this example the distributor is assumed. The
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`request is a subset of offer and the offer has one or more options. The distributor
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`makes the offer available to the user sending the request (and to other users if
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`that is the desire), and the user (including other users if applicable) makes a
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`request. Then, the distributor looks at the request, and constructs the license
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`(i.e. the rights to be granted). Note that the request can also be rejected, and
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`thus, is not granted or that a counter proposal could be made. Also, when the
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`distributor “looks" at the request this may be done automatically or with human
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`intervention or both.
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`The distributor is the person making something available to a user. The
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`distributor could be the owner or provider or could be a “middle-man” such as a
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`retailer or operator of a web site. The user could be the ultimate user (consumer)
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`or a “middle-man” such as a retailer, whole~seller or reseller. The making of the
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`offer (sending the request) could be on-line or off-line (web based, a telephony
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`method of communication, or other method could be used).
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`The grant is generated based on the dynamic information, the user’s
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`information, and the request.
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`As explained in some of our co-pending applications, which are
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`incorporated herein by reference, the dynamic information may include any
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`information related to pricing, status of the network, the traffic of a web site at
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`each moment of time, discounts given, coupons given, the habits of the user,
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`how many times the content has been used, for how long the content was used,
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`where it was used, what is the geographical location of the user, how often the
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`content is used, the quality of the content, resolution of the images, what is the
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`security clearance of the user, if the user is within a trusted zone, or if the license
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`is open license or if it is closed license (to list a few examples).
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`Dynamic information is information capable (although it need not actually
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`be) of being changed or created by or by reference to a non-static element. For
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`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,
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`reference to other data (such as the prime rate of interest or the change in a
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`stock market index) and/ or by a human intervention (of the user or distributor)
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`and/ or user input.
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`The parameters specified in the XrML (eXtensible rights Mark-up
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`Language) (grammar) is also incorporated here by reference. Those parameters
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`are also incorporated within the meaning of the dynamic information, described
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`above.
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`Generally, the dynamic information makes the DRM solution very flexible
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`and powerful, and makes the right assignment very comprehensive for the
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`content owner, thus, encouraging more DRM usage and acceptance in the
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`market.
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`The user’s information may include information such as the following
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`parameters:
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`the age of the user, the credit history of the user, credit limit of the
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`user, income of the user, what kind of rights or licenses obtained, the password
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`of the user, the key assigned to the user, club membership for access or
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`discount, class of the user based on a predetermined criteria, or any other
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`personal data, identification characteristics and other information. The
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`distributor’s information may include some or all of the subjects of information as
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`the user’s information and may include, for example, available options or
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`variations, suppliers, shipping information, and other information.
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`Protection of User’s Privacy:
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`A service provider provides the conditions. A user wants access, and thus,
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`has to satisfy those conditions. All of this is done automatically. (Other
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`permutations of this example are explained elsewhere or will be evident to a
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`person skilled in the art.)
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`Internet and computer networks provide a very fast and convenient way
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`for the distribution of the content. However, some of the content is not meant to
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`be distributed, or the distribution of that content should be strictly limited as
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`specified by the content owner (or as desired by the user). One example is
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`personal or private data, for which different people have different tolerances, in
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`terms of the manner of distribution, where it is distributed, who can look at it, or
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`who should not be able to inspect, copy, distribute, or use it.
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`One can treat private information as content, therefore, one can use the
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`DRM solutions to safeguard the private data. A user may give his/ her private
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`personal data to a web site, and the web site may sell the data to others (if the
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`user has given such a right to the web site). One parameter is the tolerance level
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`of the content owner, as can be quantified, and be represented by an integer or a
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`descriptive name or other means. This tolerance value may be corresponded to
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`geographical distribution limits, list of authorized users, list of unauthorized
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`people (such as known hackers or infamous web sites), pre-defined levels of
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`trust, pre-defined levels of security for different web sites, pre—defined levels of
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`privacy for different web sites or other parameters or conditions. “Pre-defined”
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`may also include definitions determined dynamically and are not limited to static
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`definitions.
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`The web sites can be rated by individuals, based on the votes counted, or
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`can be rated by commercial or independent non-profit organizations which rate
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`the web sites based on surprise audits, scheduled audits, and claims or rules set
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`on the web site, compared against the criteria of the rater. It usually explains in a
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`simple language what the policy is regarding the privacy, security, sale of data,
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`what kind of data, how to stop hackers, who is the subsidiary or partner with the
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`web site that can access the data free or for a fee, what income the web site is
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`getting, how often, and from whom. If there is an unwanted leak of the
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`information to the outside, the liability of the web site, in terms of monetary
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`compensations or otherwise, can be stated as a parameter for calculation of the
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`rating of the web site. Often, the web site is certified by a trusted organization,
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`and its privacy policy is based on that organization’s policy.
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`One parameter is to determine if the content owner is willing to sell his!
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`her own personal data. Another set of parameters is the price limits (or other
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`compensation or conditions) set on the personal data. For example, the content
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`owner could get a percentage or a fixed fee (or other benefit such as “airline
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`miles”) for each sale or transaction, or gets the aggregation of these micro-
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`amounts at end of each month (or other period), based on the parameters
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`assigned and attached to the content or the license. This can be done in one
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`clearing house or multiple clearing houses.
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`in addition, search engines routinely
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`search other web sites, and report to clearing houses any violation of the
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`agreement or license, possible hacking or suspicious activities, which can be
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`reported to the content owner and/ or the authorities.
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`Sometimes, the personal data are aggregated or averaged for some
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`economic, cultural, regional, national, medical or other reasons, in which the
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`individual data for a specific person is not necessarily individually important, and,
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`rather, the average, total, or trend for hundreds or millions of people is important.
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`In this case the identity of individuals typically is not disclosed. The data may be
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`used in the aggregate for any number of purposes, for example for a medical or
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`census purpose by a non-profit or trusted organization to help society and the
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`advancement of medicine.
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`in these situations, one parameter could specify the
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`purpose of the collection of data, and another parameter could specify how this
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`data is being used (such as aggregate or average only (for example, the average
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`age or average income of the people in the list)). Yet, another parameter could
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`specify which section or part of the collection of personal data is permitted to be
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`used for the purpose. The specification could be done using a user interface, for
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`example, in a template form, with flags specifying each piece of information. For
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`example, for a medical study, permission is given to access the age, height, and
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`weight of the person, but not the name, income, credit card number, credit
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`history, and address of the individuals. For a census or insurance study, the
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`information accessible might include street address or zip codes, along with the
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`number of the accidents in the past six months or the number of cars owned