Rights management information is used at least in part in a matching, narrowcasting,
classifying and/or selecting process. A matching and classification utility system
comprising a kind of Commerce Utility System is used to perform the matching, narrowcasting,
classifying and/or selecting. The matching and classification utility system may
match, narrowcast, classify and/or select people and/or things, non-limiting examples
of which include software objects. The Matching and Classification Utility system
may use any pre-existing classification schemes, including at least some rights
management information and/or other qualitative and/or parameter data indicating
and/or defining classes, classification systems, class hierarchies, category schemes,
class assignments, category assignments, and/or class membership. The Matching
and Classification Utility may also use at least some rights management information
together with any artificial intelligence, expert system, statistical, computational,
manual, or any other means to define new classes, class hierarchies, classification
systems, category schemes, and/or assign persons, things, and/or groups of persons
and/or things to at least one class.