| 6460023 |
Software authorization system and method |
| Oct-1-2002 |
A system add method for controlling the execution or display to one or more pieces of software developed using the developer's software is provided. The system permits the developer to receive revenue... |
| 6460022 |
Process for protecting sensitive price information from internet based data collection systems |
| Oct-1-2002 |
A process for protecting sensitive price information from Internet based data collection systems with the steps of: analyzing specific price information and breaking each price down into a sequence of... |
| 6457127 |
Method of and device for generating a key |
| Sep-24-2002 |
A key is generated to control the access to information on an information carrier. The key is derived from an M-bit master key and an information carrier key. Apparatus to read and/or write information... |
| 6456985 |
Image encrypting method and device, image decrypting method and device, and recording medium |
| Sep-24-2002 |
When image data has been decomposed into a plurality of components, and a plurality of components of the components have been encrypted, the encrypted image file must be able to be used without confusion.... |
| 6453420 |
System, method and article of manufacture for authorizing the use of electronic content utilizing a laser-centric medium |
| Sep-17-2002 |
A system, method, and article of manufacture is provided for tracking the distribution of content electronically. First, an electronic storage medium tracking identifier is incorporated onto an electronic... |
| 6453305 |
Method and system for enforcing licenses on an open network |
| Sep-17-2002 |
An electronic commerce system and method enforces a license agreement for content on an open network by restricting the number of consumers that can concurrently access the content. A consumer initially... |
| 6453304 |
Digital information recording apparatus for recording digital information |
| Sep-17-2002 |
A digital information recording apparatus to record digital information to protect copyright of digital information that includes at least first digital information and first copy control information.... |
| 6449598 |
Health care policy on-line maintenance dissemination and compliance testing system |
| Sep-10-2002 |
The software based interactive system provides accessibility to an institution's own policies via either an internet web site or an intranet home page. Qualified users may search for and access documents... |
| 6446211 |
Method and apparatus for monitoring software using encryption |
| Sep-3-2002 |
A method and apparatus for securing software to reduce unauthorized use and provide repeated contact with a software user to transfer information which may include advertising, promotional, or marketing... |
| 6446050 |
Method of and system for processing electronic document and recording medium for recording processing program |
| Sep-3-2002 |
In an electronic document circulating method of circulating an electronic document having a plurality of data blocks to a plurality of workers, a data block in a document is encrypted by using an encrypting... |
| 6446051 |
Document transfer systems |
| Sep-3-2002 |
A document transfer system enabling a consumer to obtain a document from an owner upon payment using a cryptographic protocol involving the consumer, the owner, a document source, such as printer, and... |
| 6445795 |
Data recording method and apparatus, data record medium and data reproducing method and apparatus |
| Sep-3-2002 |
An input is ciphered in at least one of a sector forming circuit 13, a scrambling circuit 14, a header appendage circuit 15, an error correction encoding circuit 16, a modulation circuit 18 and a synchronization... |
| 6442525 |
System for authenticating physical objects |
| Aug-27-2002 |
A system for authenticating physical objects in which the authentication key cannot be determined by reverse engineering the software or hardware of a controlling microprocessor. Two highly secure integrated... |
| 6438233 |
Book data service system with data delivery by broadcasting |
| Aug-20-2002 |
A book data service system in which the book data can be delivered by the broadcasting such that the book data can be delivered to any user located at any place promptly and economically, without causing... |
| 6438235 |
Media content protection utilizing public key cryptography |
| Aug-20-2002 |
A system and method for providing protection of content stored on a bulk storage media is disclosed. The technique for providing protection from unauthorized utilization of the content so stored is provided... |
| 6434538 |
Data control method, for embedding data control information, method for detecting data control information, device for embedding data control information and device for recording data |
| Aug-13-2002 |
A data control method includes the steps of: A) at least one of the following steps: A-1) embedding prohibition information in data, wherein copying of the data is to be prohibited; and A-2) embedding... |
| 6424953 |
Encrypting secrets in a file for an electronic micro-commerce system |
| Jul-23-2002 |
An electronic commerce system and method includes a broker computer system having a database of scrips, a vendor computer, and a consumer computer system having a wallet protected by a pass phrase. To... |
| 6418457 |
Document storage and processing system for inventors that utilize timestamps and digital signatures |
| Jul-9-2002 |
A computerized document storage system for use by inventors to store their work on an invention and to secure their claim to a date of invention, the system comprising a document creator to enable the... |
| 6418421 |
Multimedia player for an electronic content delivery system |
| Jul-9-2002 |
A system for tracking usage of digital content on user devices. Electronic stores coupled to a network sell licenses to play digital content data to users. Content players, which receive from the network... |
| 6411941 |
Method of restricting software operation within a license limitation |
| Jun-25-2002 |
A method of restricting software operation within a license limitation that is applicable for a computer having a first non-volatile memory area, a second non-volatile memory area, and a volatile memory... |
| 6397189 |
Computer jukebox and jukebox network |
| May-28-2002 |
A central management system manages a plurality of computer jukeboxes and communicates compressed digital data with each jukebox via a transmission link. The management system also includes a host computer... |
| 6393562 |
Method and apparatus for preventing fraudulent access in a conditional access system |
| May-21-2002 |
A receiver/decoder is programed only to accept a current entitlement control message (EMM) if it has received at least a previous EMM of a previous calendar period. When this is received, it is used to... |
| 6389538 |
System for tracking end-user electronic content usage |
| May-14-2002 |
A system for tracking usage of digital content on user devices. Electronic stores coupled to a network sell licenses to play digital content data to users. Content players, which receive from the network... |
| 6389403 |
Method and apparatus for uniquely identifying a customer purchase in an electronic distribution system |
| May-14-2002 |
A system for tracking usage of digital content on user devices. Content sites for distributing digital content over a computer readable medium to users. The content sites associate unique content identifier... |
| 6385596 |
Secure online music distribution system |
| May-7-2002 |
A computer implemented online music distribution system provides for the secure delivery of audio data and related media, including text and images, over a public communications network. The online music... |
| 6381575 |
Computer jukebox and computer jukebox management system |
| Apr-30-2002 |
A central management system manages a plurality of computer jukeboxes and communicates compressed digital data with each jukebox via a transmission link. The management system also includes a host computer... |
| 6374402 |
Method and apparatus for installation abstraction in a secure content delivery system |
| Apr-16-2002 |
A system for secure delivery of on-demand content over broadband access networks includes a client application executing on a user's local computer system. The client application interacts with a content... |
| 6363486 |
Method of controlling usage of software components |
| Mar-26-2002 |
Controlling the usage of a software component by an application program in an end user computer system includes obtaining an identifier of the application program by a controller computer system and generating... |
| 6363357 |
Method and apparatus for providing authorization to make multiple copies of copyright protected products purchased in an online commercial transaction |
| Mar-26-2002 |
A method for selling a digital content product in an online commercial transaction including the steps of encoding the digital content product; creating a digital file including a header having first information... |
| 6363149 |
Method and apparatus for accessing stored digital programs |
| Mar-26-2002 |
A method for deriving past keys by using a one way function to relate an ordered sequence of keys to each other. In one embodiment, a method provides future access keys by creating a plurality of entitlement... |
| 6357005 |
System for the secure CD-ROM storage of data |
| Mar-12-2002 |
A system for securely storing CD-ROM data including a CD-ROM having data encrypted at least in part with a cryptographic algorithm having a decryption key K, a CD-ROM drive for receiving the CD-ROM, an... |
| 6343280 |
Distributed execution software license server |
| Jan-29-2002 |
A method of protecting an executable image from unlicensed use is provided by remote execution of sequences of microprocessor instructions. Means of selecting sequences of instructions that execute infrequently... |
| 6343281 |
Device and method for preventing fraudulent copies of data containing encrypted copy-management information and recording medium |
| Jan-29-2002 |
A device to be used with digital data copying apparatus for preventing fraudulent copies of a digital data is disclosed. The digital data includes an encrypted data main body and encrypted copy management... |
| 6338049 |
User-generated traveler's checks |
| Jan-8-2002 |
A system and method for issuing travelers checks at a user's home or business using the purchaser's own computer system to allow the user to obtain travelers checks at any time, in any denominations and... |
| 6334118 |
Software rental system and method for renting software |
| Dec-25-2001 |
A software rental system and method are provided having at least one rented program permitting at least one service to a customer with a customer's response means. The rented program has no access to a... |
| 6330675 |
System and method for secure transfer of digital data to a local recordable storage medium |
| Dec-11-2001 |
A device securely decrypts and writes an encrypted digital file to a local recordable storage medium. The device uses two decryption engines. The first decryption engine incrementally decrypts the encrypted... |
| 6330549 |
Protected shareware |
| Dec-11-2001 |
The functionality of "protected shareware" is controlled by digitally signed messaging protocol. Protective code within the shareware controls the functionality of the shareware in response to authorization... |
| 6327658 |
Distributed object system and service supply method therein |
| Dec-4-2001 |
A distributed object system comprising at least one object distributing server, at least one client terminal and at least one server object execution server according to the present invention, including:... |
| 6321201 |
Data security system for a database having multiple encryption levels applicable on a data element value level |
| Nov-20-2001 |
A method and an apparatus for processing data provides protection for the data. The data is stored as encrypted data element values (DV) in records (P) in a first database (O-DB), each data element value... |
| 6308269 |
Arrangement for independently requesting a playing authorization for a reproduced encrypted information signal |
| Oct-23-2001 |
An arrangement, for verifying a playing authorization for an encrypted information signal reproduced by a reproducing device and for supplying a decrypted information signal when a playing authorization... |
| 6289455 |
Method and apparatus for preventing piracy of digital content |
| Sep-11-2001 |
A secure cryptographic rights unit for cryptographically regulating access to digital content includes an interface control processor and a specialized cryptographic unit that protects access to a memory.... |
| 6289452 |
Method and system for delivering digital products electronically |
| Sep-11-2001 |
A system and method for delivering a digital product electronically is disclosed. The system and method comprises providing an electronic license certificate (ELC) from an enduser to a server and then... |
| 6289314 |
Pay information providing system for descrambling information from plural sources and rescrambling the information before sending to a terminal or terminals |
| Sep-11-2001 |
A server scrambles received pay information in an internal scrambler and then transmits the result to a terminal which sent a request. A second charge managing portion determines a charge for the pay information... |
| 6282552 |
Customizable electronic invoice with optional security |
| Aug-28-2001 |
A method on a data processing server for creating customizable electronic documents in a client-server computer network having one or more data processing servers electronically connected to a plurality... |
| 6278984 |
Software processing apparatus writing software to a medium only if identification information in the software corresponds to identification information in the medium |
| Aug-21-2001 |
A vendor ID is written to a system area of a write-once optical disk. When the write-once optical disk is loaded onto a write-once disk drive, a control CPU reads the vendor ID. The vendor ID is written... |
| 6272535 |
System for enabling access to a body of information based on a credit value, and system for allocating fees |
| Aug-7-2001 |
An accounting apparatus has a money input, by which a user can input an amount of money into the apparatus. A receiver receives a body of information transmitted over a communication medium, and a register... |
| 6269374 |
Method and apparatus for updating checksums of data structures |
| Jul-31-2001 |
A method and apparatus for updating a checksum of a data structure wherein the checksum has an additive property. According to the invention, a word value of a word that is to be modified is eliminated... |
| 6266654 |
Method for tracking software lineage |
| Jul-24-2001 |
Software lineages arise through purchase and reproduction. Lineages are tracked by storing lineage-relevant information in variable regions of software instances and/or in a central database according... |
| 6256734 |
Method and apparatus for compliance checking in a trust management system |
| Jul-3-2001 |
A method and apparatus are provided for compliance checking in a trust-management system A request r, a policy assertion (.function..sub.0, POLICY), and n-1 credential assertions (.function..sub.1, s.sub.1)... |
| 6243692 |
Secure electronic software packaging using setup-external unlocking module |
| Jun-5-2001 |
The present invention, generally speaking, provides for secure electronic software packaging using a setup-external unlocking module. As a result, a software publisher can produce a single ESD-ready version... |
