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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8095470 | Identifying a content provider An identifier routine is described which, when executed by a host device, retrieves an identifier stored in a memory card and obtains an image using the identifier. The memory card is physically coupled to the host device. The image identifies a content provider fro... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8082212 | Electronic musical apparatus for recording and reproducing music content In an electronic musical apparatus, a media ID (MD1, MD2, MD3, MD4, MD5) is associated with each recording media of a memory card 8, hard disk device 10, flash memory ROM 11, CD-ROM 12 and internet 15... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078541 | Electronic musical apparatus for recording and reproducing music content In an electronic musical apparatus, a media ID (MD1, MD2, MD3, MD4, MD5) is associated with each recording media of a memory card 8, hard disk device 10, flash memory ROM 11, CD-ROM 12 and internet 15... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8046303 | Methods, systems, and products for providing electronic media Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for providing electronic media to a customer. One method prompts a customer to license a right to electronic media. If the customer agrees to license the right, then the license is electronically stored on behalf of the c... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8019688 | Music distribution system and associated antipiracy protections Music is blanket transmitted (for example, via satellite downlink transmission) to each customer's computer-based user station. Customers preselect from a list of available music in advance using an interactive screen selector, and pay only for music that they choos... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7904392 | Content usage rule management system A content user terminal including a utilization unit that provides a content utilization, and an interface unit 137 that inquires the content utilization availability to the portable content usage rule management device via a wireless communication and obtain... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7827112 | Digital signal processing apparatus, digital signal processing method, information center, and data delivery system A digital signal processing apparatus, a digital signal processing method, an information center, and a data delivery system are capable of judging reliably whether digital signals such as music data signals recorded on a storage medium have been legally purchased b... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7818258 | Electronic musical apparatus for recording and reproducing music content In an electronic musical apparatus, a media ID (MD1, MD2, MD3, MD4, MD5) is associated with each recording media of a memory card 8, hard disk device 10, flash memory ROM 11, CD-ROM 12 and internet 15... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7747466 | Methods for distributions of digital files The invention relates to a process for distributing files, having the steps of receiving at least one digital file, transmitting the digital file to a location, and selecting at least one content provider. The process also has the steps of updating a content of the ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7734548 | Methods, systems, and products for providing electronic media Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for providing electronic media to a customer. One method prompts a customer to license a lifetime right to electronic media. The lifetime right allows the customer to experience the electronic media as often as desired. I... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7599891 | Method and system for administering storage medium An administrative system receives unique ID information of disk from an orderer for ordering manufacture of the disks and provides the unique ID information for a disk maker. The maker stores on the disk unique attribute information of the disk including identificat... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7516104 | Methods of providing software over a network and related systems and computer program products Providing software over a network may include receiving a redirected access over the network from a user device at a central server, and receiving an identification of a network device and/or electronic advertisement from which the user device was redirected. A down... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7487129 | Method and apparatus for the distribution of digitised information on demand In a method and apparatus for the electronic distribution of digitised information on demand, remote and/or local mass data stores are used to store digitised information for use in the generation of products such as software media. Available products and related in... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7437770 | Data transfer system, data transfer apparatus, data recording apparatus, data transfer method A data transfer apparatus referred to as a primary-recording-medium apparatus implements proper system operations by acquisition of information on a secondary recording medium mounted on a secondary-recording-medium apparatus to serve as a destination of a transfer ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7428512 | Information distribution system, information distribution device, information receiving device, information distribution method, information distribution program, recording medium recording the information distribution program, information receiving method, information receiving program, and recording medium recording the information receiving program In the case of modifying available copy count information which is contained in distribution data, the distribution data being distributed from a distribution server and stored in a PC which serves as a receiving device, the PC sends a reuse request to the distribut... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7424747 | Method and system for detecting pirated content A content player can detect pirated content by storing a list of highly compressed content pieces that correspond to different pieces of content (e.g., audio content, video content, audio/video content, etc.). A piece of content to be played back by the content play... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7418512 | Securely identifying an executable to a trust-determining entity A resource is obtained from a resource provider (RP) for a resource requester (RR) operating on a computing device. The RR has an identity descriptor (id) associated therewith, where the id including security-related information specifying an environment in which th... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7412151 | Detection of a watermark in a compressed video signal A method and arrangement for detecting a watermark embedded in an MPEG compressed signal includes a conventional MPEG decoder stripped to such an extent that a modified baseband video signal suitable for watermark detection is obtained. A plurality of pictures with ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7406176 | Fully scalable encryption for scalable multimedia Subject matter includes exemplary systems and related methods for fully scalable encryption of scalable multimedia. A scalable bitstream encrypted using the subject matter maintains full functionality of scalable features in the encrypted form. The exemplary scalabl... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7392523 | Systems and methods for distributing objects Systems and methods consistent with the present invention ensure software integrity by associating each software component to be included in a federation with a distinct unique identifier. A subset of the identifiers corresponding to any two software components shou... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7389272 | Information recording device and information reproducing device The information reproduction device for reproducing contents information based on license information added to the contents information and required for reproducing the contents information, includes a determining section for determining whether encrypted contents i... | 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 |
| 7382879 | Digital rights management negotiation for streaming media over a network A digital rights management (DRM) method is negotiated prior to initiating delivery of a DRM encoded content item over a digital network between a client and a target server. The client identifies a link to the target server for accessing the DRM encoded content ite... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7370008 | Electronic catalog system and method A method is provided for detecting pirated copies of a serialized software program located on a remote computer. ... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 7363277 | Detecting copyright violation via streamed extraction and signature analysis in a method, system and program Signature analysis of streamed download data narrows a list of likely candidates after a search engine search has been performed. “Streamed download” means that the data is brought byte by byte to the searcher's computer and then discarded. During the streaming ... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 7353207 | Method of altering a software product in response to predetermined events 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 to methods disclosed. ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349553 | Watermarks for secure distribution of digital data A visible first watermark and invisible second and third watermarks are embedded in digital media content, in order to protect the media content from piracy. The visible first watermark protects the media content during distribution and storage, while the invisible ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7350238 | Data transfer system, data transfer apparatus, data-recording apparatus, data management method and identifier generation method A data transfer system provided by the present invention is capable of executing proper management of content transfers with a high degree of efficiency. In a data transfer apparatus employing a primary recording medium, rights to transfer contents stored in a prima... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346581 | Copyright management apparatus, copyrighted-work distribution apparatus, and copyrighted-work distribution and receiving system 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. A subscriber looks for the desired musical piece from a musi... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346585 | Computer software and services license processing method and system Integrated computer services and software licensing processing methods and systems are provided. A license processing service (LPS) receives a services or software license request from a user via a client computer. The LPS communicates the request to a billing syste... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343495 | Information recording apparatus, information reproducing apparatus, and information distribution system An information recording apparatus comprises an encryption section encrypting contents information and also a license condition referred to to limit use of the contents information and a decoding key for decoding the encrypted contents information to generate licens... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340437 | Circuit configuration and method for identifying error situations in interconnected systems The circuit configuration according to the invention comprises an electrical signal line loop, several partial systems connected thereto, which evaluate the state of the signal line loop, wherein a first selectable switching means is looped in between a first end of... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337146 | Emergency information management system A wide-area emergency information management system includes a broadcasting entity (10) and delivers content to authorized receiver clients (20), such as PC's, laptops, wireless devices, etc. The specific content (26), which can include voice, t... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336787 | Critical packet partial encryption An encryption arrangement for multiple encryption of television programs. A system according to embodiments of the present invention multiple encrypts only a portion of the data required for full presentation of a television program to permit coexistence of multiple... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7337330 | Universal game download system for legacy gaming machines A universal method and system for downloading game software to legacy gaming machines. A gaming machine includes a locked enclosure; a first computing device disposed within the locked enclosure, the first computing device being programmed to enable game play of the... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7334051 | Data distribution system, terminal apparatus, distribution center apparatus, high-efficiency encoding method, high-efficiency encoding apparatus, encoded data decoding method, encoded data decoding apparatus, data transmission method, data transmission apparatus, sub information attaching method, sub information attaching apparatus, and recording medium A data distribution system that includes a distribution center apparatus for dividing digital content data into segments of multiple frequency bands, and converting the segments of digital content data into encoded data having compressed blocks, each block having a ... | 02/19/2008 |
