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News Release from: Open-Plug | Subject: Elips Platform
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 05 December 2006
Elips framework integrates DRM Agent
Open-Plug and Beep Science AS has announced the integration of Beep Science's solution within Open-Plug's Elips Platform.
Open-Plug, a leading supplier of mass market software platforms for the handset industry, and Beep Science AS, a leading provider of mobile Digital Rights Management (DRM) software, has announced the integration of Beep Science's solution within Open-Plug's Elips Platform By partnering with Beep Science, Open-Plug brings easy access to a best-of-class OMA DRM solution, integrated within the Elips Framework
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 14 Feb 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The way the Beep Science DRM Agent is integrated - through a generic set of Elips DRM programming interfaces available to any applications running on top of Elips - provides a swift and highly flexible way to bring DRM functionality to the applications requiring content protection.
The combined solution will help device manufacturers to DRM enable their devices in a cost-effective way.
Eric Baissus, CEO of Open-Plug, said "We are very glad to count Beep Science in the Elips Partners ecosystem".
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"Together, Open-Plug and Beep Science bring their customer a ready-to-go solution to easily implement DRM content protection in mass market phones while making no compromise on the system efficiency".
"We are proud to provide Elips with a compelling DRM solution bringing new opportunities to Open-Plug customers".
"It enables any content copyright protection need on the handset, secures interoperability and meets operator DRM requirements, as well as making life easier to mobile phone manufacturers," said Markku Mehtala, VP of Business Development of Beep Science.
Based on Open-Plug's unique and patented FlexiblewareT technology, the Elips product suite enables the rapid development of mass market phones -from low-end to high-end- which represent more than 90% of the market.
With its technology, Open-Plug has successfully adapted the component-based approach to the embedded software industry, delivering the flexibility of a true modular architecture on mass-market terminals, with neither resource nor power consumption penalty.
Elips Framework and MMI are available on the most popular Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) as well as Linux-based chipset platforms.
The DRM solution provided by Beep Science is designed according to the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) industry standard.
The Beep Science DRM Agent supports all content types, major operating systems and chipsets, paving the way for a healthy digital content ecosystem across devices and platforms.
The DRM Agent can be implemented on all types of connected devices for downloading and consuming DRM protected contents from online services.
Beep Science's DRM fully supports all copyright protection requirements in mass market feature phones, as well as interoperability requirements between devices and the operators' OMA DRM enabled services.
The DRM solution provided by Beep Science is implemented in accordance with the versions 1.0 and 2.0 of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) industry standard and it meets the DRM requirements from leading mobile operators.
The Elips Platform currently integrates the Beep Science OMA v1 DRM agent.
The OMA v2 DRM Agent will shortly be available.
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