Michael Raley

TL;DR: In this paper, a trust policy is constructed based upon a social relationship between real-world entities, which is determined based on a social network and social network maps, and the trust policy provides quick and secure access to desired or trusted nodes while providing security from entities outside the trusted sphere of nodes.

TL;DR: In this article, a point-of-capture system for managing use of items having usage rights associated therewith including a point of capture system adapted to generate content of a future event when the event occurs, a content distributor adapted to distribute the license before the content is created, the distribution key being encrypted with a public key.

TL;DR: An enforceable property right and a system for controlling the manner of use of an item in accordance with usage rights was defined in this article. But the enforcement of such a right was not discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a method, system, and device for license-centric content use or distribution, including a pre-existing digital rights management (DRM) system having a unique interface to a repository of data thereof to govern use of content; a shared license repository configured to access the data to govern the use of the content and to communicate with the unique interface of the preexisting DRM system.

TL;DR: In this article, a hierarchy of rights associated with a document (100) is created that provides a tree-type structure of rights extending from the content owner down through one or more users.