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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190528 | Trusted infrastructure support systems, methods and techniques for secure electronic commerce, electronic transactions, and rights management An integrated, modular array of administrative and support services are provided for electronic commerce and electronic rights and transaction management. These administrative and support services supply a secure foundation for conducting transaction-related capabil... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185473 | Trusted infrastructure support systems, methods and techniques for secure electronic commerce, electronic transactions, commerce process control and automation, distributed computing, and rights management An integrated, modular array of administrative and support services are provided for electronic commerce and electronic rights and transaction management. These administrative and support services supply a secure foundation for conducting transaction-related capabil... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8175912 | Human-service provider relationship management for government agencies A system includes a central server in communication with public agencies through a private network and with local service-providers through a public network. The central server executes a profiling module configured to exchange standardized information with a local ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8150864 | Automated monitoring and control of access to content from a source A provider of content may provide access to portions of content from a source, but not the source content in its entirety. In some embodiments, one or more access rules or criteria may be implemented that enable users to access portions of the source content up to a... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8121953 | Intelligent meeting planner One embodiment of the present invention includes a meeting planning tool that contains information about as many different aspects of a meeting as desired, including the cost of the meeting, both in direct expenses and indirect costs to the enterprise or organizatio... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8112360 | Digital media acquisition using credit Improved techniques and systems to facilitate use of credit to acquire digital media assets from a network-based media server are disclosed. Digital media assets can include media items such as songs, albums, images, slideshows, audiobooks, podcasts, or videos. A us... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8103590 | Method and system for managing multiple catalogs of files on a network Systems and methods have been developed for managing multiple catalogs of files on a network. The systems and methods may manage a catalog of files with rights for sale and a catalog of rights presented for free public use. The systems and methods may manage these m... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8095467 | Internet news compensation system A computerized compensation system of disseminating a plurality of news and information items offered, contributed, and submitted by a plurality of independent submitters to an internet provider site. The provider site accepts, indexes, catalogs, tracks, meters, and... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090660 | Pay per use security billing method and architecture A system is provided for use-based charging of security software. The system includes a security software, a monitor component, and a billing component. The security software provides security for a computer system, and the monitor component is operable to monitor u... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8073779 | Disaggregated secure execution environment An electronic device, such as, a computer, may be adapted for self-monitoring for compliance to an operating policy. The operating policy may specify a pay-per-use or subscription business model and measurements associated with compliant usage. A secure execution en... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8055587 | Man in the middle computer technique A method for constructing a secure Internet transaction, the method includes: receiving a user identification (userid) and user password on a client device for filling out a form generated by a secure web site; concatenating the user's Internet Protocol (IP) address... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055586 | Providing configurable use by applications of sequences of invocable services Techniques are described for facilitating use of sequences of invocable services in a configurable manner, including by providing a metering service that tracks the use of invocable services by other invocable services or applications. In at least some situations, t... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8041641 | Backup service and appliance with single-instance storage of encrypted data One implementation of a method for providing backup storage services for encrypted data includes receiving signatures of convergently encrypted portions of data from client computers, determining whether the encrypted portions are already present on a backup storage... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8024273 | Establishing patient consent on behalf of a third party A database system, which stores electronic medical records, may assign a child-application-identification-code to a healthcare provider via a clinical system intermediary acting on behalf of the healthcare provider. The database system may associate the child-applic... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8015113 | Administering contracts over data network A method for administering performance of a contract over a data network includes storing a lien waiver and receiving an application for payment over the data network from a contract participant based on performance under the contract. The stored lien waiver is retr... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7987139 | Advertising revenue sharing A method for compensating all parties involved in producing the income stream for a content distributor is presented where the content-hosting site, the content writer and the user doing the interaction with paid contents receive a fair share of the generated income... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7974926 | Content use system, information terminal, and settlement system Provided is a new system for content use and settlement. A user requests a mobile telephone charge management server (3000) to perform proxy settlement for goods purchased using mobile telephones 1 (4100), 2 (4200) and 3 ( | 07/05/2011 |
| 7953667 | Method and system to detect invalid and fraudulent impressions and clicks in web-based advertisement systems This invention improves upon existing pay-per-click arrangements periodically generating a code associated with the search-engine users. This code, preferably in the form of a serial number, is compared to the user of the website, such that by observing a metric lik... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949605 | Secure electronic commerce Secure transactions are achieved over a public network by using a private network to handle the sensitive information of the transaction. When a client requests a product from a vendor server over a public network, the vendor server notifies a facilitation server on... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7949606 | Intellectual property brokerage system and method Intellectual property is sold to buyers through a kiosk. The kiosk provides users with the ability of located desired content on a seller's computer. When a user located the desired intellectual property, a payment transaction is initiated. When the payment transact... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7925635 | System and method for collecting statistics related to software usage A system and method identifies the times that certain applications are started and stopped on a computer system and such information about several computer systems is collected using a central computer system to allow decisions regarding software may be made based o... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7921036 | Method and system for dynamically targeting content based on automatic demographics and behavior analysis The present invention is a method and system for selectively executing content on a display based on the automatic recognition of predefined characteristics, including visually perceptible attributes, such as the demographic profile of people identified automaticall... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7917440 | Over-the-air delivery of metering certificates and data Metering is enabled through an arrangement in which a metering certificate is communicated to a mobile device using an over-the-air protocol. A metering trigger provides the metering certificate that includes a location to which metering data is posted by the mobile... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7908218 | Terminal device, accounting system and data processing method This invention relates to a terminal device capable of communicating with an accounting center, an accounting system, and a data processing method. A point memory 45 of a recording/reproducing device 10 stores accounting point information. An HDD 15... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7904390 | Management system and management method for charging object apparatus, management apparatus and charging object apparatus A management apparatus, a charging object apparatus and a management system and method by which a product of an object of use can be used in an efficiency as high as possible when it is used commonly by a plurality of people. In the management system, the management... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7882034 | Digital rights management for content rendering on playback devices In one embodiment, an elapsed playback time associated with a digital playback device is determined and compared to an allotted playback time for the device. In the event the elapsed and allotted playback times satisfy a predetermined relationship with respect to on... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7877327 | Apparatus and method for creating and using documents in a distributed computing network An authoring application for allowing users to create, control and distribute electronic content including a canvas interface for constructing a project of the electronic content from a plurality of resource files, the canvas interface having: a canvas area for cons... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7870075 | System and method for managing software development A system and method of managing external content that is used within a software product or software development process is disclosed. In some approaches, the system and method manages and tracks the use of external content, as well an approval process for determinin... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7860799 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing media content delivery audit and verification services Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing media content delivery audit and verification services are disclosed. In one example, a monitoring system analyzes messages associated with communications in a wireless communications network. The monitor... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7860800 | Policy control and billing support for call transfer in a session initiation protocol (SIP) network A session initiation protocol (SIP) server adds billing and authentication information to conventional SIP messages used in establishing call transfers. This additional information is later verified by a SIP server and used to enable advanced billing and fraud prote... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7827110 | Marketing compositions by using a customized sequence of compositions A method and apparatus for marketing an un-owned composition to a user and acquiring an un-owned composition for a user's collection of compositions. A customized sequence of compositions is generated for a user. The customized sequence may be based upon the user's ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7822686 | Processing system for recording media content A method and system are provided in which a user is enabled to record, for example, a song or other radio and/or video content, on demand, and to account for and process appropriate payment for the use of the recorded content. The recorded material is saved and inde... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7809647 | Processing system for recording media content A method and system are provided in which a user is enabled to record, for example, a song or other radio and/or video content, on demand, and to account for and process appropriate payment for the use of the recorded content. The recorded material is saved and inde... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7801818 | Content providing system, information processing device and method, and program The present invention relates to a content-providing system, information-processing apparatus, information-processing methods and programs which are capable of keeping up with changes in content value. A license server 221 transmits a utilization condition an... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7801819 | Rendering rights delegation system and method Methods and systems for controlling the distribution of digital content are provided. A license holder acquires protected content and an original digital license to the protected content from a content provider system. The license holder in turn delegates all or par... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7797242 | Method and system for network-based purchase and distribution of media Methods and systems for network-based purchase and distribution of media are disclosed. The purchase and distribution of media by these methods and systems are not only secure but also controlled. The security restricts access to media within media files during down... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7797241 | Global information network product publication system A system and a method of publishing an product document for clients for the purpose of publicly disclosing an invention to end users on the Global Information Network. The system includes a first Web site system having a publicly accessible database for storing a pl... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7797243 | Method and system for content-based billing in IP networks A method and system for content-based billing in IP-networks, carry out and transmit to a control gateway module the authentication and/or service authorization of an IP-node based on the IMSI of the SIM card of the node for HLR and/or VLR of a GSM network and guide... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7769691 | Systems and methods for configurable entitlement management Modern enterprises, particularly technology companies, often provide benefits that are sold or given to their customers or partners. For example, an enterprise's customers, or selected subsets of customers, may be entitled to receive product upgrades, product update... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7769692 | Transmission apparatus and method, reception apparatus and method, management apparatus and method, charging apparatus and method, providing apparatus and method, and recording medium This invention relates to a transmission apparatus for transmitting digital content data via a communication medium, comprising attachment means for attaching cost information per unit data volume to the digital content data; and transmission means for transmitting ... | 08/03/2010 |
