Summary
This paper describes the structure, features and operation of RightsVault. Here are the main points:
- Structure
- Integratable client-server software subsystem
- Net deployable in many combinations over the Internet or in any closed network using Internet standards
- Stand alone operation also through a Web interface
- DRM technology underpinning platform proven in eCommerce
- Single RightsClient per user machine, no matter how many programs talk to it (reader, browser, audio player, PACS viewer, &), no matter how many RightsServers it talks to.
- Features
- Persistent security, not just delivery security
- Any type of digital object can be protected, including documents, audio files, databases or part thereof, diagnostic images, digital blueprints, &
- Authorizes specific uses of documents and data (e.g. display, print, copy adding watermark) and data system operations (e.g. order blood test, attach interpretation to diagnostic image, display history)
- Tracks operations whether or not they are authorized, e.g. track use of menu item send email
- Familiar common tools (e.g. Acrobat Reader, Winamp, Internet browser) to access protected docs
- Operation
- Off-Net authorization and audit as well as on-Net
- Automatic installation of all end-user components, including the free reader, its trust extension, RightsClient, and the protected doc
- Outside/inside for a given information management system, authorization and tracking for files that leave the system, and/or for files, data and operations inside the system