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.