Introduction to Sony DADC User Rights Management Solution and it's functionalities.

1. User Rights
Management Solution
Alex Knowles, Datalogics
Richard Nash, Sony DADC

2. Agenda
• About Datalogics & Sony DADC
• Development and Benefits of URMS
• System Overview
• Use Cases
• Availability
• Roadmap

3. About Datalogics
• Founded in 1967
• Developed one of the first electronic publishing systems
in 1972; evolved into an enterprise solution still used
today worldwide
• 6+ years developing and supporting eBook technologies

4. About Sony DADC
• Founded in 1983, at the start of the optical storage media
revolution
• 23 global media manufacturing, distribution, and digital
facilities
• Over 900 million units shipped per year
• 50 million files per year delivered to more than 500 DSPs
worldwide
• Global customer services supporting over 25 languages

5. Sony DADC & User
Rights Management
• Industry standard for License Management
solutions with PC games and Home Entertainment
• 1.1+ billion physical and digital units in the market
• 350+ active User Rights Management customers
worldwide
• 60+ digital business partners
• 5+ million digital software licenses issued per
month (peak ~500 per second)

6. Marlin Trust Management
Organization
The Marlin Trust Management Organization (MTMO) is the operational entity that
grants commercial licenses for Marlin technology. It is established by the five Marlin
founders – Intertrust, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, and Sony
The Marlin Developer Community (MDC) is the innovation engine. It continues to build on existing Marlin
technologies in an open community. By encouraging developers to participate, the specifications are more
robust, targeted, and secure.

7. Development of URMS
How?
•Development began in 2013
•Active member of Readium Foundation
•Reviewed all available Sony resources and solutions
•Hired leading industry experts
Benefits
•Premium reading experience for consumers
•Flexible business model
•Content Protection built upon Marlin

8. Next Generation Product
• Intuitive APIs support rapid client development
• Simple user experience
• Single sign-on
• Education friendly license options:
• User-to-user loans
• Reader groups

9. System Overview
URMS CGP
Server
Webstore
Content
Reader
client
URMS
SDKUser authentication
Payment processing
Auth token request
Transaction information
Content distribution
Entitlement synchronization

10. Use Case #1
Buying an eBook
• User “John” visits the eBook web
store
• John selects and purchases an
eBook
• The eBook is now available on his
bookshelf
• He navigates with his reader device
to his bookshelf
• In order to read the book, John
needs to register the eBook to the
reader device (Download)
• John can now read the eBook
without any further validation
EBOOK Webstore
Buy
Buy
Buy
Buy
John’s bookshelf

11. John’s bookshelf
Use Case #2
Common Bookshelf
• John visits another bookstore
• John selects & purchases an eBook
• The eBook is now in his bookshelf,
along with the eBooks from the first
bookstore
• He navigates with his reader device
to his bookshelf
• In order to read the book, John
needs to register the eBook to the
reader device (Download)
• John can now read BOTH eBooks,
without any further validation
EBOOK
Webstore
Buy
Buy
Buy
Buy
Other eBOOK store
User can read both books
within one app.

12. Use Case #3
Preventing an unauthorized copy
• John wants to give a copy of
the eBook to user “Bob”
• John “somehow” copies the
eBook from his reader device
to Bob’s reader device
• The URM (User Rights
Management) prevents Bob
from reading the eBook
because it is not registered to
the reader device
Copy
John’s eReader Bob’s eReader

13. Use Case #4
Borrowing an eBook from a Library
• John visits the homepage of the
Public Library via his reading device
or a web browser
• John selects an eBook that he
wants to borrow
• The book is available in John’s
bookshelf for the lending period
• The Library is always the owner of
the eBook and can always “enforce”
the return
Public Library
John’s Bookshelf
Borrowed

14. Availability
• Integrated with Readium EPUB 3 viewer
• Sony URMS gateway server is in full production
• iOS and Android reading apps available from Immanens and
others are in development and will be available soon
Client SDK
iOS Production SDK
Android Production SDK
Windows Coming
Apple OS Coming
WebReading Evaluation SDK for Entitlement

15. Roadmap
• Development of URMS Client SDK for Windows and
Mac OS X
• Integration with Readium web browser
• Working with several companies to develop reading
solutions

16. THANK YOU!
For more information, visit us
www.datalogics.com