Location constraints in digital rights management

Computer Communications

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1173-1180

  Muhlbauer, Adam ^a   Safavi Naini, Reihaneh ^a   Salim, Farzad ^a   Sheppard, Nicholas Paul ^a   Surminen, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Access control; Digital rights management; HTTP Enabled Location Delivery; Location

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; CONSTRAINT THEORY; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; HTTP; INFORMATION SERVICES; TAXONOMIES;

DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT; LOCATION CONSTRAINTS;

DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 40949093944     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2008.01.008     Document Type: Article

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