Systems and methods of secure data exchange

US9613190B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Intralinks, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Christopher Todd Ford · Boston, US
• Visal Chandrakant Acharya · Everett, US
• Richard David Anstey · Cheltenham, GB
• Wasif Qayyum Awan · Lexington, US
• Amir Azmi · Billerica, US
• Selom Harry Azuma · Boston, US
• Wade Callison · Acton, US
• Clement Cazalot · Montpellier, FR
• Mayank Choudhary · Shrewsbury, US
• Peter W. Cleary · Colorado Springs, US
• Benedict Robert Dsilva · Cambridge, US
• Fuat Ertunc · Boston, US
• Simon Genzer · Brookline, US
• John William Giudice · Lexington, US
• Douglas McLean Gordon · Wellesley, US
• Jonathan Gorin · Elmont, US
• Mushegh Hakhinian · Westwood, US
• John Held · North Aurora, US
• Ronald W. Hovsepian · Boston, US
• Ganesh Kannan · Wayland, US
• John Landy · Cohasset, US
• David Scott Lindsay · Marshfield, US
• Dario R. Lirio · Newton, US
• Himali Mahajan · Medford, US
• Olivier Mangez · Maisons-Laffitte, FR
• Kevin L. McCarthy · Arlington, US
• Kevin McNulty · Dedham, US
• Jerry Lee Meyer · Pepperell, US
• Anupam Miharia · Winchester, US
• Constantin Miroslav · València, ES

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 22, 2015
• Grant date: Apr 4, 2017
• Expiry date: Jul 6, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L2463/101
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An example method for managing digital rights management (DRM) protected content sharing in a networked secure collaborative computer data exchange environment includes establishing, by a secure exchange facility and managed by an intermediate organizational entity, a procedure that allows a user from a first entity to share access to computer data content with a user from a second entity based on indicated access rights. The method includes transforming the computer data content into DRM protected content, utilizing a DRM engine provided by a separate entity. The method includes granting access to the content to the second user, providing permissioned control to entities utilizing a number of data storage nodes, and managing secure data exchange of the content and metadata, without the secure exchange facility having access to the content. The method includes operations to support content services including data transformation, filtering, analytics, and searching tools for the content.