| 7043453 |
Method and system for conducting transactions between repositories using a repository transaction protocol |
| May-9-2006 |
A method and apparatus for establishing a secure communications channel between a first repository and a second repository using a repository transaction protocol. A registration identifier and registration... |
| 7043458 |
Charging process management system |
| May-9-2006 |
A charging process management system includes image input/output devices which are connected to a network, each image input/output device having software components that are charged for service fees. A... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 7039440 |
Wireless rechargeable money card |
| May-2-2006 |
A method, computer program product and system that may be used to limit the funds that are available through the use of a business transaction card by having a business transaction card first place a request... |
| 7035830 |
Method and apparatus for remote filing and recordation of documents |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A document filing method and system is disclosed that utilized has: a user interface display connected to a server in electronic communication with at least one remote compute engine with URL capability,... |
| 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... |
| 7032241 |
Methods and systems for accessing networks, methods and systems for accessing the internet |
| Apr-18-2006 |
Systems and methods for providing network access, e.g. Internet access, are described. An architecture includes a host organization network through which network access is provided. The host organization... |
| 7031921 |
System for monitoring audio content available over a network |
| Apr-18-2006 |
A method is provided for monitoring audio content available over a network. According to the method, the network is searched for audio files, and audio identifying information is generated for each audio... |
| 7024392 |
Method for controlling use of database content |
| Apr-4-2006 |
Method for providing database content usage. The database content can be a digital work having one or more rights associated therewith. The method can be effected within a system having at least one repository... |
| 7024391 |
System, method and program product for sharing information |
| Apr-4-2006 |
A member accessible information system for managing member information, and selectively providing member information to individual members. The members, typically belong to a common industry, such as the... |
| 7020635 |
System and method of secure electronic commerce transactions including tracking and recording the distribution and usage of assets |
| Mar-28-2006 |
Disclosed is a system and method that tracks the usage of rented digital assets. A server includes an asset database that stores a digital asset, the title of the digital asset, and a server usage count... |
| 7020637 |
Digital audio and video playback with performance complement testing |
| Mar-28-2006 |
System and method for monitoring and modifying a playlist of viewable audio and/or video selections at one or more selected times to account for the effects of restrictions on the times, and number of... |
| 7016878 |
Content sales period verifying system and content decryption key effective period verifying system |
| Mar-21-2006 |
A CD-ROM is recorded with a CD-ROM effective period and an effective period of a content stored in the CD-ROM. A CD-ROM effective period judging section of a personal computer reads the effective periods,... |
| 7013296 |
Using electronic security value units to control access to a resource |
| Mar-14-2006 |
A network utilizes electronic security value units to prevent unauthorized access to resources in the network. The network includes at least a resource manager and an electronic bank server (e.g., the... |
| 7010500 |
On-line subscription method |
| Mar-7-2006 |
A system and a method of providing on-line subscription services from a subscription server to a user of a mobile terminal through the Internet. The subscription server receives from the mobile terminal... |
| 7006996 |
Restriction canceling apparatus |
| Feb-28-2006 |
A restriction canceling apparatus comprising: a memory that stores content consisting of a plurality of relating parts whose functions are restricted and a plurality of restriction canceling data, each... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 6999946 |
Method for computer network operation providing basis for usage fees |
| Feb-14-2006 |
A computer network having a requesting node and a providing node permits data transfer therebetween when permitted by an authorizing node. Reports generated in response to authorizations and reports generated... |
| 6996547 |
Method for purchasing items over a non-secure communication channel |
| Feb-7-2006 |
A method for purchasing items over a non-secure communication channel uses a secure communication device. The secure communication device includes a host processor, a secure memory that includes a laser-scribed... |
| 6990468 |
System, method and article of manufacture for cryptoserver-based auction |
| Jan-24-2006 |
A system, method, and article of manufacture are provided for pricing a cryptographic service on a network utilizing one or more cryptoservers. A request for a cryptographic service is received from a... |
| 6983289 |
Automatic identification of DVD title using internet technologies and fuzzy matching techniques |
| Jan-3-2006 |
An iterative search technique is used to quickly and accurately locate information in a database, such as one storing information about digital versatile discs (DVDs). First, a presumably unique search... |
| 6980971 |
Copyright management apparatus, copyrighted-work distribution apparatus, and copyrighted-work distribution and receiving system |
| Dec-27-2005 |
A TV music broadcasting program is distributed from a distribution apparatus through a ground station and a satellite, and a musical-piece program is also distributed through a plurality of audio channels.... |
| 6980930 |
Communication terminal and information processing apparatus of a payment system |
| Dec-27-2005 |
A payment system automatically provides objective information and sets remuneration for objective information to high-rate. A payment system comprises multiple communication terminals and multiple information... |
| 6980652 |
Combination mastered and writeable medium and use in electronic internet appliance |
| Dec-27-2005 |
An optical medium uses a single structure or format (such as identical materials, layers and the like) for both a region for holding mastered data and a writeable area. In one aspect, a writeable region... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 6971007 |
Assured printing of documents of value |
| Nov-29-2005 |
The transmission and reproduction of an original document transferred via a data network can be assured when the printing mechanism generates a unique serial number for the document being printed. The... |
| 6970849 |
Inter-server communication using request with encrypted parameter |
| Nov-29-2005 |
A server architecture for a digital rights management system that distributes and protects rights in content. The server architecture includes a retail site which sells content items to consumers, a fulfillment... |
| 6970850 |
Proximity service provider system |
| Nov-29-2005 |
Web-sites www.proximityservices.com, www.accessservices.com, www.vendingmachineservices.com, www.vehicleservices.com, www. meterservices.com, www.picopay.com, www.tollservices.com, for all the proximity... |
| 6968384 |
License management system and method for commuter licensing |
| Nov-22-2005 |
A system for managing licenses for protected software on a communication network is disclosed. The system includes at least one client computer that is capable of being coupled to or decoupled from the... |
| 6968324 |
Method, system and program product for evaluating a computational processing capacity migration between computer platforms |
| Nov-22-2005 |
A method, system and program product for determining a cost differential resulting from a migration of computational workloads between computer platforms is disclosed herein. Information regarding current... |
| 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... |
| 6966002 |
Methods and apparatus for secure distribution of software |
| Nov-15-2005 |
Software is securely distributed with limited usage rights. The software may be an executable program and/or one or more data files such as image or multimedia data files. The software includes an access... |
| 6965914 |
Negotiated wireless peripheral systems |
| Nov-15-2005 |
Methods, apparatus, and business techniques are disclosed for use in mobile network communication systems. A mobile unit such as a smart phone is preferably equipped with a wireless local area network... |
| 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... |
| 6963860 |
Information recording and reproducing system and method and distribution medium |
| Nov-8-2005 |
To make it possible to provide high-quality music signal regardless of the advertising voice superimposing position, an encrypted pure music signal input through a transmission medium and an unencrypted... |
| 6961858 |
Method and system to secure content for distribution via a network |
| Nov-1-2005 |
A method and system to secure content for distribution via a communications network commences when a user device authentication process is associated with content from a content provider. A copy-protected... |
| 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... |
| 6961716 |
Network usage analysis system and method for determining excess usage |
| Nov-1-2005 |
A usage analysis system and method for modeling subscriber usage is disclosed. The method includes defining a threshold value. An excess usage component is determined by summing all subscriber usage greater... |
| 6961715 |
Input/output buffer managed by sorted breakpoint hardware/software |
| Nov-1-2005 |
A data processing device uses a portion of a random access memory as an input buffer for holding a portion of a stream of data which is being processed by a processing unit within the processing device.... |
| 6959288 |
Digital content preparation system |
| Oct-25-2005 |
A digital content preparation system that includes a metadata acquisition tool for acquiring metadata associated with the digital content, and a digital content processor for processing the digital content... |
| 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... |
| 6957194 |
Method for printing digital works |
| Oct-18-2005 |
A method for providing limited printing of a digital work having one or more rights associated therewith within a system having at least one repository configured to enforce use of the digital work in... |
| 6954854 |
Electronic authentication method, electronic authentication apparatus and electronic authentication storage medium |
| Oct-11-2005 |
According to the invention, techniques for verifying that data input as a response to presented contents is true input data for a content access. In a representative embodiment according to the present... |
| 6954793 |
Pre-paid data card authentication in a public wireless LAN access system |
| Oct-11-2005 |
A user (121, 122) can gain access to a Local Area Network (LAN) (20) on a fee basis without the risk of having to transmit an un-encrypted PIN at upon initial access.... |
| 6954739 |
Measurement-based management method for packet communication networks |
| Oct-11-2005 |
Disclosed are network management procedures that apply measurements of traffic load to achieve greater efficiency in the operation of the network. In a method for deciding whether to route an incoming... |
| 6947909 |
Distribution, recognition and accountability system for intellectual and copy written properties in digital media's |
| Sep-20-2005 |
A method for distribution, recognition and accountability for Intellectual and Copy written Properties in digital media's by associating a Transaction Code Identifier or Designator and further bundled... |
| 6938020 |
Memory rental service system in intelligent authentication unit |
| Aug-30-2005 |
The present invention is to provide a memory rental service system in an intelligent authentication unit, the system allowing an application operating entity to setup or change any application freely and... |
