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INTERTRUST, WAVE SYSTEMS TO INTEGRATE INTERTRUST DRM INTO WAVE CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SERVICES AND EMBASSY HARDWARE
London, 8 March
Leveraging OpenRights Initiative and Open EMBASSY Platform to Accelerate Distribution of Applications in Music, Publishing, Video, and Content Services
Santa Clara, California and Lee, Massachusetts - InterTrust Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: ITRU), the MetaTrust Utility™, and Wave Systems Corp. (Nasdaq: WAVX), today announced a comprehensive relationship to license and integrate InterTrust's digital rights management (DRM) technology into Wave's digital broadcast network infrastructure and Trusted Client hardware platform and services. This will allow content providers to protect and manage the distribution of music, published documents, videos, and other digital goods with flexible new delivery and business models.
Wave has adopted InterTrust as its preferred DRM technology and will leverage InterTrust's OpenRights™ Initiative to rapidly integrate InterTrust DRM into its content distribution offerings. In addition, Wave and InterTrust will work to integrate InterTrust's DRM technology into Wave's EMBASSY (EMBedded Application Security SYstem) Trusted Client hardware architecture. The combined technologies will provide a comprehensive, yet easy to use, end-to-end digital commerce system and service infrastructure.
Wave Systems is creating a secure, comprehensive solution for distributing all forms of digital content. The Wave Systems Digital Network infrastructure, when combined with InterTrust's DRM, will enable the secure delivery of premium digital goods and services through a wide variety of digital network technologies, including the Internet, terrestrial TV, cable, satellite, DSL and wireless. Recent Wave content distribution initiatives include WaveXpress, a joint venture datacasting company created with Sarnoff Corporation, to provide an end-to-end DTV e-commerce system.
"We expect the combination of InterTrust's leading DRM technology with Wave's EMBASSY Trusted Client system and content distribution services to set the standard for digital commerce," said Peter Sprague, founder, chairman, and CEO of Wave Systems. "This partnership is a perfect way to leverage our different and complementary leadership positions in a way that will benefit both company's customers and partners."
"Leveraging InterTrust's DRM technology, Wave can rapidly create and deliver strategic new services to Wave's growing list of content and broadcast network partners," Peter Sprague added. "Our combined solution will enable an innovative approach for converging mass media digital networks with the Internet to deliver virtually any type of content directly to end users."
"We are pleased to be partnering with InterTrust as our preferred digital rights management provider. InterTrust has built the industry leading set of DRM products, services, and partnerships, including its recently announced OpenRights Initiative, which brings great value to Wave's Digital Network and Wave's open Trusted Client platform," said Steven Sprague, President and COO, Wave Systems. "Together we will provide a compelling media experience for consumers, while providing our partners with the business model flexibility and sophistication they need to generate revenue from digital content on the new mass media Internet. We are delighted to be jointly developing with InterTrust a software and hardware combination that will be the industry's most advanced and secure end-to-end digital commerce solution."
"Wave Systems' strategic focus, core technologies, and recent partnerships all illustrate that it understands, and has understood for quite some time, the components necessary to bring to life true digital commerce," said Victor Shear, chairman and CEO, InterTrust Technologies.
Corporation. "Wave's Trusted Client hardware technology and content distribution services are an excellent fit with our DRM technology and utility model. We are very pleased to have Wave Systems join the MetaTrust Utility family of companies."
InterTrust Digital Rights Management
Digital rights management (DRM) technologies protect and manage rights and interests in digital information. InterTrust's DRM platform provides a common foundation for distributed e-commerce digital information and event management. In the content industry, this allows authors, publishers, enterprises, governments, users and others to specify, as appropriate, rules regarding the use of digital information, and the consequences resulting from such use. InterTrust® technology is designed to protect digital information, apply rules persistently after information is distributed, and automate many e-commerce processes related to content use. InterTrust's DRM platform is general purpose and manages most media and content types, including music, publications, business information, video, games, software, and images. InterTrust DRM is enhanced by its use in the MetaTrust Utility, a non-discriminatory, policy neutral, global environment for digital commerce.
The MetaTrust Utility's OpenRights Initiative provides the digital commerce community with component and application building blocks that accelerate the development of digital rights management (DRM)-enabled applications and services. The initiative includes the OpenRights Library, OpenRights Architecture, OpenRights Developer Program and the newly formed Digital Rights Management Institute. The OpenRights Initiative was announced February 22, 2000 and information is available at www.openrights.com.
InterTrust Technologies and Wave Systems Announce Integrated Hardware/Software Solution for Digital Rights Management
Dec. 19, 2000
InterTrust to Provide RightsChip Functionality in Wave Systems EMBASSY Trusted Client System
Wave Systems Corporation (NASDAQ:WAVX) and InterTrust Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ:ITRU) announced today that they are collaborating to create the industry's premier high-end digital rights management (DRM) solution using Wave's EMBASSY(R) Trusted Client programmable hardware system as the newest platform in the recently announced InterTrust RightsChip(TM) family.
InterTrust's RightsChip provides Silicon Assist(TM) functionality for demanding security environments and integrates with InterTrust's other industry-leading, general-purpose DRM platform technology products.
InterTrust will adapt the RightsChip Engine firmware to run on the Wave EMBASSY hardware, and Wave will provide the special security support needed to enable RightsChip functions in the EMBASSY context.
The RightsChip Engine firmware is at the core of InterTrust's RightsChip hardware. EMBASSY technology is unique in the industry as it is an open and programmable trusted platform.
By adapting the RightsChip Engine to run in the EMBASSY environment, the RightsChip features and security enhancements can be available in any system, such as personal computers, digital set top boxes and other access devices, that incorporates EMBASSY hardware.
Integrating RightsChip functions in the Wave EMBASSY environment is the next stage in the partnership between InterTrust and Wave announced in March, 2000. In addition to being Wave's preferred digital rights management solution, the InterTrust Commerce product can now gain security benefits provided by Wave's EMBASSY hardware.
This solution will allow InterTrust's partners for DRM applications such as music, streaming MPEG4 video, healthcare records and secure financial records to immediately gain the full benefits of the EMBASSY Trusted Client system for any system which includes the EMBASSY chip.
Wave System's Trust @ the Edge(TM) strategic architecture for embedding trusted hardware in every user device and peripherals enables additional important functions to be located at the user end of the network.
This includes a powerful new suite of functions for protecting user identities and sensitive information, a fully distributed transaction system, and protection for content and services.
InterTrust offers security architecture, controller
November 6, 2000
SANTA CLARA, Calif. ( ChipWire) -- Two new technology options from InterTrust Technologies Corp. will enable chip and system builders to add security to their products at low cost and without specialized coprocessors, cryptographic accelerators or custom devices, the company said.
The products, introduced this week, are designed to address the growing demand for solutions that let OEMs develop low-cost devices with hardware-based protection against piracy of digital book, music and video content, and security for embedded applications like the storage of digital currency.
The TrustChip architecture enables the design of secure system-on-chip solutions, and the RightsChip microcontroller can be integrated into system designs, InterTrust said. The TrustChip architecture includes silicon designs, intellectual property, security firmware and security management services, all of which is avail able for license from Santa Clara-based InterTrust.
TrustChip supports both digital rights management and general-purpose security, the company said. It provides, for example, an isolated environment for the digital rights management software and guarantees that a cell phone is running the correct operating system. TrustChip can also protect embedded firmware from reverse engineering, the company said.
The security firmware requires little space on the system-on-chip (SoC), said Olin Sibert, InterTrust's vice president for strategic technologies. He said the actual run-time cost of the security firmware for the SoC would be under 10% in a low-end device such as a play-only MP3 player. For more-sophisticated devices, the percentage of run-time cost for the SoC would be lower, he said.
Cirrus Logic Inc. was the first chip maker to implement TrustChip, designing it into its Maverick Lock product. Arm Ltd. in Cambridge, England, has also committed to TrustChip. Other companies are expected to roll o ut TrustChip-based products next year. Developer kits for the firmware and services will be available from InterTrust in the first quarter of 2001.
The RightsChip is a microcontroller from Infineon Technologies AG of Munich. Part of that company's SLE66 series, it's been fitted with firmware to run security applets and with InterTrust's digital rights management software.
The microcontroller can secure local transactions and key management and can be easily integrated into designs for consumer electronics products. The RightsChip allows OEMs to design devices with local stored value, like a music player loaded with money that can be used to purchase music over the Internet.
Infineon manufactures the chip but it's being sold by InterTrust, priced at under $3 in volume quantities.
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