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8185477 Systems and methods for providing a license for media content over a network  
Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and apparatus for tagging a segment of media content. In various embodiments, a beginning location and an ending location...
8185476 Digital rights management system protecting consumer privacy  
Technologies for a Consumer Privacy Digital Rights Management system based on stable partially blind signatures that enable a license server to provide licenses for delivery to users without...
8182340 Method and system for using temporary information on personal devices  
A method and system for using temporary information on personal devices such as a personal game playing device. The methods and system described herein may help further utilize large base of...
8185475 System and method for obtaining and sharing media content  
A device initialization method includes generating a license request for a personal media device. A timeout indicator may be obtained for a subscription associated with the personal media device....
8181266 Method for moving a rights object between devices and a method and device for using a content object based on the moving method and device  
A method for moving a rights object (RO) between devices, a method of using a content object based on the moving method, and devices using the methods are provided. The moving method includes...
8180681 Automated entitlement management method and apparatus for capturing maintenance renewals revenues  
The presently preferred embodiment of the invention provides a method and apparatus that enables software publishers and other sellers of subscription services. e.g. subscriptions, such as...
8175978 Managing the allowed usage amount of a program using license information  
A management method is disclosed for managing license information indicating an allowed amount of usage of a program executable on a peripheral device or a function provided by the peripheral...
8175269 System and method for enterprise security including symmetric key protection  
A system and method for enterprise security including symmetric key protection. In accordance with an embodiment, the system provides a higher level of protection against unauthorized key...
8175977 License management for digital content  
A method and apparatus for digital content license management is disclosed that provides one or more license management devices that manage licenses for playback of digital content. The license...
8170955 System and method for enforcing usage rights associated with digital content  
A method, system and software for permitting use of digital works having rights associated therewith in a system having repositories configured to enable use of the digital work in accordance with...
8170956 Systems and methods for electronically managing content  
Systems and methods are provided for electronically managing content. In one embodiment, information identifying content items found on a page is received from a client system through code embedded...
8171287 Access control system for information services based on a hardware and software signature of a requesting device  
A system and method for the authorization of access to a service by a computational device or devices. A software agent generates a digital signature for the device each time it attempts to access...
8166563 Remanufacture of encrypted content using a replicated medium  
Embodiments of the invention provide a method for creating a source for remanufacture of encrypted content using a replicated medium. A content encrypting engine obtains a first set of meta data...
8166566 Controlling the downloading and recording of digital data  
A method and apparatus for enabling a licensed end user to record digital data as described is particularly useful to the music industry as it enables them to make audio data available over the...
8165963 License scheme for use with stackable devices  
A method (300), system (100) and apparatus (200) are provided that enable selected features in a group of two or more devices. A first of the devices (102A) receives a license (306) identifying...
8160965 Method for preventing illegal use of software  
Apparatus, techniques and systems for preventing illegal use of software and other digital files based on operations of a data storage device controller in a computer or computer system. For...
8160964 Virtual license documents  
Exemplary methods, systems, and products are described for creating a virtual license document for material subject to an end-user license agreement (‘EULA’). Embodiments include identifying a lic...
8156488 Terminal, method and computer program product for validating a software application  
A terminal for validating a software application includes a processor capable of operating an operating system (OS) platform (e.g., Symbian™ OS platform), and capable of operating at least one s...
8156049 Universal DRM support for devices  
Embodiments of the present invention allow a system or client device to process multiple Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems and formats using a universal DRM client. The universal DRM client...
8150782 Methods and apparatus for recognizing compact discs and issuing corresponding credits  
For possible use in an electronic content distribution system, automatic recognition of compact discs or other storage media containing particular content, and corresponding account crediting is...
8151114 Dynamic enabling of functionality in electronic document readers  
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for digital rights management. In one aspect, a method is provided. The method includes receiving an...
8150727 Content and advertising material superdistribution  
Embodiments provide content and advertising material superdistribution. In one embodiment, a method of distributing content and advertising material may be provided. The method may include:...
8151356 Method of transmitting and reproducing content processed by various DRM systems  
Provided is a method of transmitting content processed according to first digital rights management (DRM) to a device that uses second DRM. The method includes generating a ticket using a first...
8142282 Console integrated downloadable game service  
A user interface screen is displayed on a gaming device that provides both a first selectable item that indicates the ability to download games to the gaming device and a second selectable item...
8145571 Content transfer control for wireless devices  
A content transfer control system for a wireless device and a method of controlling content transfer from a wireless device are described. The system includes a content transfer control component...
8145572 Information processing apparatus, content processing method, and computer program product thereof  
When a conflict occurs among usage rules for content data, a verification on the content data is made in accordance with the conflict solution policy defined in the usage rule for each of the...
8145596 Value assessment of a computer program to a company  
System, computer implemented method and program for assessing value of a computer program installed in a computer of a company. Determinations are made as to (a) an order that the computer program...
8146168 Program control apparatus, method and program  
An activation restriction confirmation processing unit concatenates the basic portion of the name of an activation-restricted program and constituent information indicating a destination, specifies...
8140437 Method of recording and reproducing sample data to/from a recording medium and sample data containing recording medium  
The present invention provides according to an embodiment a method of reproducing content, comprising the steps of: (a) receiving a digital content from an external source, the digital content...
8140439 Method and apparatus for enabling digital rights management in file transfers  
Embodiments of the invention generally provide a method and apparatus for enabling digital rights management in file transfers. One embodiment of a method for transferring digital content from a...
8140435 System and method for processing protected text information  
A method and apparatus of encouraging distribution, registration, and purchase of free copyable software and other digital information which is accessed on a User's System via a Programmer's...
8141129 Centrally accessible policy repository  
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for a centrally accessible policy repository. Protection policies for protecting resources within an organization...
8136166 Installation of black box for trusted component for digital rights management (DRM) on computing device  
To install a black box on a computing device, an administrator has access to the computing device and queries same for machine properties thereof. The administrator sends the machine properties of...
8135646 Content transmission apparatus  
A content transmission apparatus is disclosed which promotes distribution of contents over a network and thereby affords better convenience to those who wish to sell and buy the contents. The...
8131644 Formular update  
The subject matter relates to software application collaboration and, more particularly, collaboration between software applications via formular updates. Some such embodiments include systems,...
8131646 Reprogrammable security for controlling piracy and enabling interactive content using revocation status  
Technologies are disclosed to transfer responsibility and control over security from player makers to content authors by enabling integration of security logic and content. An exemplary optical...
8131649 Static-or-dynamic and limited-or-unlimited content rights  
Dynamic assignment of rights to content, such as in a closed distribution system. Noting state information generated by an item of current content, and modifying state or rights of new content in...
8132188 Method and system for extension registry filtering  
A set of attached extensions is reduced before it is exposed to the code of a processing extension point to which the extensions are attached. An application calls an extension registry to obtain a...
8130963 Method and apparatus for secure key delivery for decrypting bulk digital content files at an unsecure site  
Rather than downloading each content document on demand from the publisher location to the user site, at the publisher location, each content document is encrypted and then multiple encrypted...
8131645 System and method for processing media gifts  
Various techniques are provided for the gifting between multiple electronic devices of media content provided by an online digital media provider. An offer and acceptance of a selected gift file is...
8131648 Electronic content distribution and exchange system  
An electronic content distribution and exchange system provides authenticated, reliable content downloads and tracking capabilities. Content is distributed to users through the invention's...
8127367 Refreshing software licenses  
A license access agent is configured to execute on a client computer. The license access agent comprises a license manager configured to receive a software license upon a request for authorizing...
8126814 Method and system for installing software and hardware feature licenses on devices  
A method and system for installing software and hardware licenses on electronic devices supporting licensable features. Specifically, a method is disclosed for installing licenses in a node based...
8126810 Apparatus and method of flexible and common IPMP system for providing and protecting content  
An apparatus for a flexible and common IPMP System (Intellectual Property Management and Protection) offers flexibility and interoperability by incorporating a complete IPMP Tool List stored in the...
8126813 Information processing apparatus and method, and data communication system and method  
A client obtains license information. The client has a client module for using content under conditions defined in the license information. When the client module is updated and a new function is...
8126812 Digital content vending, delivery, and maintenance system  
A digital content vending machine, DCVM (10), in which a client (12) on a personal computer, PC (14), contains an infrastructure (16) and an inventory (18). The infrastructure (16) and inventory...
8121906 Method for selling content over a network  
A method to generate revenue from supplied content is provided. Content is provided to a consumer via a network by providing a content service that allows the consumer to select and retrieve...
8122258 System and method for secure operating system boot  
There is provided a method for operating a basic input/output system (BIOS) of a pay-as-you go computer system. In one example embodiment, the method includes periodically resetting a watchdog...
8122264 Power-state change as a function of direction of right-to-use status change  
The present invention provides a computer-implemented limited right-to-use business method. In response to a command to change the right-to-use status of at least a first component, the...
8121954 Information processor, method for controlling the same, and image forming system  
An information processor is capable of restricting the available application program interface for each application program. The information processor capable of executing a predetermined...