Content Management Overview

Content Management provides standard interfaces for managing Digital Rights Management (DRM) protected data in a phone.

Description

The Content Management collection includes the Content Access Framework (CAF) and a configuration file for its recogniser.

  • CAF for DRM: CAF provides a common interface for supplying, consuming and managing DRM protected content. It enables a content provider to supply and store DRM protected content, a consumer (such as a media player or a software installer) to access stored content, and a rights manager to allow applications to manage content and DRM rights. For more information, see Content Access Framework for DRM Overview.

  • CAF Recogniser Config: The CAF Recogniser Config component contains a configuration file listing the supported MIME types for use by the CAF recogniser. For more information, see CAF Recogniser Config Overview.

  • CAF Streaming Support: CAF streaming agents are ECom plug-ins designed to support streaming DRM content. For more information, see CAF Streaming Support Overview.

When an application such as a media player, tries to access protected content, Apparc supplies the file name and a buffer containing data from the start of the file to the CAF recogniser. The CAF recogniser determines whether any of the CAF content access agents can recognise the file. If the file can be recognised, CAF acts a switch between different agents and passes the file to the appropriate agent to read the protected content.

Components

The Content Management collection includes the following components: