| 7043620 |
Recording medium having recording program recorded therein and recording apparatus and method |
| May-9-2006 |
The present invention provides an optical disk drive, optical disk recording method, optical disk recording program and a recording medium having the optical disk recording method recorded therein, applicable... |
| 7039848 |
Data recording medium, data recording method and apparatus, data playback method and apparatus, and data determination method |
| May-2-2006 |
A recording medium includes an area in which data encoded with an error correction code is recorded. In the recording medium, data which contains an error uncorrectable with the error correction code,... |
| 7039615 |
Retail transactions involving digital content in a digital rights management (DRM) system |
| May-2-2006 |
A retailer facilitates issuance of a digital license from a licensor to a customer for a corresponding piece of digital content. The retailer receives payment for the license from the customer, where the... |
| 7039614 |
Method for simulcrypting scrambled data to a plurality of conditional access devices |
| May-2-2006 |
In accordance with one embodiment, a method for storing a normal scrambled digital program is provided. The method includes receiving a scrambled program, and receiving a plurality of access requirements.... |
| 7039613 |
System and method for controlling distribution and use of digital works using price specifications |
| May-2-2006 |
A method, system and device for determining fees for access to digital works including associating a usage right with a digital work and which specifies a manner of use of the digital work and (i) a fee... |
| 7038600 |
Method and device for adding or extracting a secondary information signal to/from a RLL code sequence |
| May-2-2006 |
A method and device for adding or extracting a secondary information signal to/from a runlength-limited code sequence, includes detecting a polarity of a runlength at a first predetermined position of... |
| 7036019 |
Method for controlling database copyrights |
| Apr-25-2006 |
The present invention provides a method for controlling copyrights of digital data in a database system including real time transmission of a digital picture. Copyrights are controlled using one or more... |
| 7035969 |
Recording medium having recording program recorded therein |
| Apr-25-2006 |
The present invention provides an optical disk drive, optical disk recording method, optical disk recording program and a recording medium having the optical disk recording method recorded therein, applicable... |
| 7035827 |
Content receiving apparatus and method, storage medium, and server |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A content receiver is compatible with a plurality of rights management and protection methods (RMP) devised for each content distribution system. Only the format which specifies the specification of the... |
| 7017190 |
Portable recordable media anti-theft system |
| Mar-21-2006 |
An anti-theft system for a portable recordable media that contains a downloadable, user-sensitive software program files or data that the publisher wants to prevent multi-installations and unauthorized... |
| 7017188 |
Method and apparatus for secure content delivery over broadband access networks |
| Mar-21-2006 |
A system for secure delivery of on-demand content over broadband access networks utilizes a pair of servers and security mechanisms to prevent client processes from accessing and executing content without... |
| 7017044 |
Extremely secure method for keying stored contents to a specific storage device |
| Mar-21-2006 |
An extremely secure method for keying source contents to a source storage medium provided to prevent use of unauthorized copies at minimal cost. The host processor combines a unique, immutable and verifiable... |
| 7016498 |
Encrypting a digital object on a key ID selected therefor |
| Mar-21-2006 |
To encrypt a digital object, a key ID is selected for the digital object, and a function ƒ( ) having an input and an output is selected. The selected key ID is then employed as the input to the function... |
| 7013388 |
Vault controller context manager and methods of operation for securely maintaining state information between successive browser connections in an electronic business system |
| Mar-14-2006 |
Techniques for use in establishing a secure exchange of information between an end user and a server in a distributed network environment are provided in accordance with a context manager. The context... |
| 7013294 |
License management system |
| Mar-14-2006 |
A license management system for software which drives a single computer or a plurality of computers includes: an application program for requesting a decision of the number of license which it needs to... |
| 7010720 |
Data reception system capable of replacing recording medium |
| Mar-7-2006 |
A reception apparatus records a content distributed from a content distribution apparatus on a hard disk. Following an instruction from a viewer, the reception apparatus reproduces the content. The reception... |
| 7010697 |
System for dynamically encrypting information for secure internet commerce and providing embedded fulfillment software |
| Mar-7-2006 |
A data distribution system is provided which supplies customers with an executable for requested secured data files to provide the customer with fulfillment software, obviating the need for the customer... |
| 7007170 |
System, method, and apparatus for securely providing content viewable on a secure device |
| Feb-28-2006 |
A system, apparatus, and method are directed to providing and securely viewing secure content. In one embodiment, a secure player provides secure screening/previewing of secure content, such as a motion... |
| 7006997 |
Method and program for preventing unfair use of software |
| Feb-28-2006 |
For user registration, feature of a file system of a computer of a particular user is extracted, and a licenser generates key data characteristic of the extracted feature and provides the key data to the... |
| 7003675 |
Encrypted content data structure package and generation thereof |
| Feb-21-2006 |
Described herein are one or more implementations that generate and encrypted content data structure package and/or data tree. |
| 7003496 |
Terminal apparatus, information service center, transmitting system, and transmitting method |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A transmitting system is provided in which a data once downloaded in a memory means of a terminal apparatus from an information service center is returned to the information service center while the returned... |
| 7000113 |
Recording information with a watermark related to a prerecorded medium mark on an information carrier |
| Feb-14-2006 |
A system for copy protection of recorded information is disclosed, including an information carrier, a recorder and a player. The information carrier, e.g. an optical disc, includes a medium mark representing... |
| 6999948 |
Memory card |
| Feb-14-2006 |
A memory card 110 extracts a session key Ks from the data applied onto a data bus BS3 by carrying out a decryption process. An encryption processing unit 1406 encrypts a public encryption... |
| 6999947 |
License devolution apparatus |
| Feb-14-2006 |
There is provided a license devolution system for devolving the right of using as to contents. The license devolution system makes it possible to copy or distribute contents while contributing to a protection... |
| 6999588 |
Image input apparatus, image input method, recording medium, and encryption processing program stored in computer-readable medium |
| Feb-14-2006 |
In an image input apparatus provided with an image pick-up unit, an image signal generated by the image pick-up unit is converted into digital information. The digital information is then encrypted by... |
| 6999587 |
Information recording/reproducing system |
| Feb-14-2006 |
An information recording medium 1 is provided with: a user data recording part 3 which records user data; a random-patter-information recording part 4 which records random pattern information... |
| 6993131 |
Method and system for managing rights in digital information over a network |
| Jan-31-2006 |
A method and system for distributing digital information is disclosed. Preferably, a user acquires a tangible object which contain a code authorizing access to the digital information. The user reads the... |
| 6990584 |
Method of and apparatus for restricting copy of digital information, and apparatus for recording digital information |
| Jan-24-2006 |
An apparatus for restricting a copy of digital information is provided with a detecting device for detecting a first watermark, which is buried in the digital information and comprises a first signal generated... |
| 6988206 |
Prevention of CD-audio piracy using sub-code channels |
| Jan-17-2006 |
A method for protecting data recorded on an original storage medium against unauthorized copying. The data are encoded in accordance with Standard 908 of the International Electrotechnical Commission.... |
| 6986048 |
Protecting content from illicit reproduction by proof of existence of a complete data set using security identifiers |
| Jan-10-2006 |
A number of data items are selected for inclusion in a data set so as to discourage a transmission of the entire set over a limited bandwidth communications path, such as the Internet. The data set includes... |
| 6983369 |
Authentication system, and contents-information sender and receiver |
| Jan-3-2006 |
First information is sent from a contents-information receiver apparatus to a contents-information sender apparatus. The first information includes a combination of certificate information and second information... |
| 6983368 |
Linking public key of device to information during manufacture |
| Jan-3-2006 |
A method in which information pertaining to a device (104) generating digital signatures (122) is reliably identified includes manufacturing (102) devices in a secure environment (114)... |
| 6983262 |
Server having an automatic management mechanism |
| Jan-3-2006 |
A server, having an automatic management mechanism, automatically delivers a request for license from a user to a communication window, automatically arranges information such as titles of software parts,... |
| 6980972 |
Method and system for controlling and auditing content/service systems |
| Dec-27-2005 |
An improved interactive network system is provided that allows the Network Operator to control the transfer of information to and from the network end users, the system preferably using triggers or markers... |
| 6978377 |
Copy protection using detailed copy control information |
| Dec-20-2005 |
Based on the detailed reproduction control information defining the reproduction control state of data to be transmitted, the CPU 12 of the data transmission apparatus creates a simplified reproduction... |
| 6978369 |
Person-centric account-based digital signature system |
| Dec-20-2005 |
In a method of managing a database of existing accounts (214) for account holders (202), each account holder (202) has multiple accounts with one or more account authorities (212)... |
| 6978256 |
Method and apparatus for selling digital contents, processing program thereof and recording medium for the program |
| Dec-20-2005 |
The present invention relates to a digital contents selling system for selling digital contents. Identification information of digital contents selected by a customer is received. Personal digital contents... |
| 6978021 |
Encryption method for distribution of data |
| Dec-20-2005 |
A method and system for securing a data product for mass distribution. An authorization server may encrypt a portion of a data product. Further, the authorization server may assemble an authorization key... |
| 6973445 |
Demarcated digital content and method for creating and processing demarcated digital works |
| Dec-6-2005 |
Flags are used to mark portions of content in a digital work to permit marking or demarcation of portions of the document. The demarcated portions can be handled in various ways. For example, different... |
| 6973444 |
Method for interdependently validating a digital content package and a corresponding digital license |
| Dec-6-2005 |
A method is disclosed for a device to interdependently validate a digital content package having a piece of digital content in an encrypted form, and a corresponding digital license for rendering the digital... |
| 6971018 |
File protection service for a computer system |
| Nov-29-2005 |
A method and system that protects selected system and other files, by preventing changes to those files. In an asynchronous alternative, the change is prevented by copying back the original file when a... |
| 6968059 |
Video information generating apparatus, video communication terminal, video distribution server, and video information system |
| Nov-22-2005 |
The conventional multimedia communication terminals require the implementation of a camera unit for video input and a video encoder for generating encoded video streams. This configuration is expensive... |
| 6968058 |
Digital evidential camera system for generating alteration detection data using built-in encryption key |
| Nov-22-2005 |
A digital evidential camera system is for detecting the alteration of image data obtained by photographing an object. The system comprises the camera and an alteration detection unit. The camera includes... |
| 6963972 |
Method and apparatus for networked information dissemination through secure transcoding |
| Nov-8-2005 |
A method and system enables network intermediaries such as proxies to transcode multimedia data without violating end-to-end security guarantees. In one embodiment, a content provider decomposes a data... |
| 6963859 |
Content rendering repository |
| Nov-8-2005 |
A rendering system adapted for use in a system for managing use of content and operative to rendering content in accordance with usage rights associated with the content. The system includes a rendering... |
| 6963846 |
System and method of managing registration, sale, distribution and use of regulated agricultural products and the licensing/certification of dealers and applicators of agricultural products |
| Nov-8-2005 |
A method and system for managing agricultural product information, and for facilitating the controlled sale, distribution, and use of agricultural products provides a single data entry process for submitting... |
| 6961853 |
Digital watermarks |
| Nov-1-2005 |
A method of and an apparatus for implementing real-time transaction specific watermarking to generate a transaction specific digitally watermarked data file is described. The method comprises two stages.... |
| 6961714 |
Method of quantifying royalty owner rights |
| Nov-1-2005 |
The invention is a business method for calculating royalty owner rights—specifically, calculating a metric of use corresponding to an aspect of royalty owner interest in an aggregate multi-royalty... |
| 6961428 |
Method of videotext information encryption and security transmission in a network |
| Nov-1-2005 |
A technique of enciphering the graph-text document and its security transfer on a network. The sender of the graph-text document enciphers at least one graph-text document with digitizing algorithm provided... |
| 6959290 |
Method and apparatus for tracking states of digital works |
| Oct-25-2005 |
A method and system for controlling use of digital works in accordance with usage rights associated with the digital works. The method includes the steps of receiving a request to use a digital work, and... |
