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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8160922 | Method and system for making donations to charitable entities A method and system for making a donation to a third party, wherein a user executes a purchase transaction using a card linked to a reward point account If a user donation is desired, then the user's reward point account is decreased and corresponding value is trans... | 04/17/2012 |
| 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 content as a package together with a clearing of the selectable content to ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8086535 | Decoupling rights in a digital content unit from download Systems and methods for enabling a user to obtain rights in a legitimate copy of a digital content unit without downloading the copy from a digital content store are provided. The systems and methods provide an encrypted copy of a digital content unit to a first use... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8073828 | Licensed rights clearance and tracking for digital assets Rights clearances management for assets, such as media assets. A rights brokerage service enables potential licensees to clears rights to use assets within designated projects, such as advertising campaign projects. The potential licensee uses an interface to select... | 12/06/2011 |
| 7991698 | Method and apparatus for executing cryptographically-enabled letters of credit A method and apparatus for executing electronic transactions using cryptographically-enabled accounts stores cryptographically-enabled account information and instructions, receives a cryptographically-encoded permission certificate, and processes the received permi... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7970707 | Shared royalty platform for content royalty management Systems and methods for the dynamic processing of royalties are disclosed. Sales records are processed on a transaction basis rather than in batch mode. This process also allows correction of information retroactively, rather than delaying the entire processing of t... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7958055 | Method and apparatus for temporary ownership of digital items in a network data processing system A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for leasing a unique digital item in a network data processing system. A listing request is received for a payment and a deposit in the account of a first party. A listing request is received for a unique digital item i... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7917441 | Metadata driven methods and systems to process financial data Metadata driven methods and systems utilized to process financial data include a method to generate a plurality of first acquirer dependent software components based on a first acquirer settlement metadata file that corresponds to a first acquirer. The first acquire... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7904391 | Methods of returning merchandise purchased by a customer from a vendor, computer implemented methods performed by a vendor, and return of merchandise processing apparatuses A currency distribution system and method. In accordance with the invention, a first transaction is facilitated by which currency is transferred electronically between a first entity and a second entity, and whereby a first balance of currency is maintained by said ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7860801 | Tools for accessing digital works In accordance with one embodiment, apparatus are provided that comprise a user interface, a rendering device, a clearinghouse communicator, and an enable mechanism. The user interface includes a digital work choosing mechanism to choose a digital work for rendering.... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7853565 | Method and apparatus for efficient propagation of large datasets under failure conditions A network of nodes caches replicated datasets in which dataset changes are efficiently propagated as a set of changes even under failure conditions. A master node and a plurality of subordinate nodes in the network each maintain a copy of the dataset and a change lo... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7788179 | Printing system using a portable terminal and printing charge collecting method A cellular phone company closes a contract with a user to the effect that the cellular phone company collects a predetermined basic charge from the user together with a communication charge. When the user intends to print out a contents, the user sends authenticatio... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7469230 | Method and system for automatically distributing fees, including a reseller commission, during a digital file transaction A method and system for enabling electronic delivery of files is disclosed. The method and system include maintaining a data repository for storing information relating to the files available in the digital marketplace, wherein the information includes business rule... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7440922 | System, method, and business method for settling micropayment transactions to a pre-paid instrument The invention provides a method, business method, and system for conducting micropayment transactions between consumers and merchants. A merchant offers micropayment transactions to a consumer. The micropayment transaction is authorized, and the micropayment transac... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7430537 | System and method for verifying a financial instrument A system and method for verifying a financial instrument or a user's authorization to use a financial instrument. The system initiates one or more verifying transactions involving the instrument, with details that may vary from one transaction to another, such as th... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7426494 | Rental system At the time of manufacturing a DVD to be provided to a rental agent, a provider device writes an agent-rental expiry along with contents onto the DVD. At the time of renting the DVD to a user, a rental agent device writes a user-expiry onto the DVD. A DVD player acq... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7426638 | Controlling access to information on a network using an extended network universal resource locator Systems and methods for controlling access to information on a network where a first network entity receives a message requesting access to stored information via a network communication. The received message includes a first component encrypted with a first crypto-... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7415610 | Facilitating access to information stored on a network using an extended network universal resource locator Systems and methods for facilitating access to stored information associated with a user, where a service provider receives, from a network entity controlling access to the stored information, a first message component encrypted with a first crypto-key associated wi... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7415439 | Digital rights management in a mobile communications environment The invention provides a method, system, and computer program product to control the access, copying, and/or transfer of a digital asset by mobile, wireless devices using a digital voucher. The digital voucher references a primary content that contains all of the ex... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412423 | Charging system and charging method A user, in requesting a service provider to provide predetermined service, sends to a service provider data and signature data created based upon the data. The service provider calculates a fee based upon this data and requests a bank to collect the fee from the use... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412424 | Third party certification of content in electronic commerce transactions A system for providing third-party certification of content in an electronic commerce transaction includes one or more servers operating on one or more computers. The one or more servers receive a first set of attribute values from a first party, the first set of at... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7389428 | Data processing system, data processing method, and program providing medium The inventive data processing apparatus initially generates verifying values for verifying integrity of contents data stored in a memory device, then stores the verifying values in correspondence with contents data, and then, using the verifying values, the data pro... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386515 | Fee imposition system for application software Fee imposition system and method for application software, in which a software providing corporation can collect the fee without fail and charge a fair fee to a customer, and thereby the customer can use the application software with a paying method easy to estimate... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7386883 | Systems, methods and computer program products for administration of computer security threat countermeasures to a computer system A countermeasure for a computer security threat to a computer system is administered by establishing a baseline identification of an operating or application system type and an operating or application system release level for the computer system that is compatible ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7383229 | Access control and metering system for streaming media The present invention provides systems and techniques for transmitting a streaming media file. One of the techniques includes sending a metering uniform resource locator (URL) from a first server to a client player over a network, and sending a streaming media file ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383230 | System and method for the efficient exchange and pricing of services and intangible works An exchange system for intangible goods comprises a first user system, a second user system, a registry system, a clearinghouse system and a hash module coupled for communication with each other. The first and second user systems includes a content module for acting... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7376624 | Secure communication and real-time watermarking using mutating identifiers A multiple party system for distributing content. In one embodiment, four parties are involved in the system: a consumer, a service provider, an authenticator, and a content provider. The distribution of content from the content provider to the consumer is carried o... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7370017 | Redistribution of rights-managed content and technique for encouraging same Use of rights-managed content is enabled by a digital license that includes the identity of the licensee. The licensee redistributes the content by sending a package containing the content and the license to another party. That other party obtains a license to use t... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370016 | Music distribution systems Music is blanket transmitted (for example, via satellite downlink transmission) to each customer's user station where selected music files are recorded. Customers preselect from a list of available music in advance using an interactive screen selector, and pay only ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366686 | Sales support system and method therefor A product sales and delivery support system performs support of product sales and delivery via a communication network, whereby a purchaser orders product from a plurality of sellers and specifies batch delivery of all ordered product by a single delivery agent.... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366700 | Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a decoding key encoded with specific information to decode encrypted information of a record medium A data recording apparatus capable of preventing easily copying of information is disclosed with which, even if information is copied, the copied information cannot be reproduced, the data recording apparatus having a terminal to which encoder ID specific for the da... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363276 | Broadcast receiving method and apparatus and information distributing method and apparatus A broadcast receiving method comprises storing first control information in a storage device, the first control information containing information unique to a receiver and required for the receiver to select broadcasted and encrypted contents information, and receiv... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363507 | Device and method of preventing pirated copies of computer programs A device and a method of preventing pirated copies of computer programs. The device has input and output devices for bidirectional data exchange with an electronic computer and a first memory element containing a data file that can be transferred to the electronic c... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359737 | Data transmission-reception system and data transmission-reception method A data communication system is disclosed which comprises: first terminal devices for transmitting contents and content provider identification data identifying the providers of the contents; a server device for receiving and storing the transmitted contents and cont... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7352867 | Method of preventing unauthorized distribution and use of electronic keys using a key seed A method and system for generating an electronic key used in an electronic transaction can be created by executing a one-way function on a host that derives the electronic key from a key seed saved in a non-volatile storage unit of the host and a unique host identif... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353212 | Method and structure for assigning a transaction cost A method and structure for calculating transaction costs as a function of one or more services provided by a computer system. Each user/computer transaction utilizes one or more computer system services to execute the transaction. Each computer system service provid... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353208 | Transaction processing using intermediate server architecture A system and method of transaction processing is provided and includes a transaction terminal accessing a communications network. The transaction terminal sends first transaction information for a transaction across the communications network to a server. The first ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353229 | Post-session internet advertising system The present invention is directed to a post-session advertising system that may be used in media such as computers, personal digital assistants, telephones, televisions, radios, and similar devices. In one preferred embodiment, a first display is viewed in a first p... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353206 | Literary work royalty accounting method, network system therefor and recording medium on which control program therefor is recorded A literary work royalty meter rate accounting method is provided by which a royalty based on the frequency of use of literary works such as music data distributed through a communication circuit is imposed on a customer. A management terminal apparatus sells a right... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349881 | Computer borrow and loan securities auction system An auction system is disclosed which allows users to participate using their own, or the exchanges, or a brokers, computers, suitably connected to the auction system. This connection may use the internet or a private leased line or an alternative network. The invent... | 03/25/2008 |
