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A combination beverage container and spittoon includes a bottom portion including outer wall and a first inner wall defining a spittoon space.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8117130 | Batch loading and self-registration of digital media files Methods and apparatus for batch loading and self-registration of digital media files is provided. The system provides numerous methods of interfacing with a content outlet. The methods further include comparing attributes of content to be downloaded with attributes ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112362 | Storage system and license management method A storage system and a license management method that can simplify license management are proposed. In a storage system in which a first storage apparatus is connected to one or a plurality of second storage apparatuses and the first storage apparatus virtualizes ea... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112363 | Selecting, ordering and accessing copyrighted information from physical documents A method and associated computer program product for processing edited objects associated with a physical document. The method is for use in a user workstation by a user. The method includes: determining a position of a point pressed on a touch foil to select an ite... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108315 | Discovering software code subject to licenses Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems for discovering whether software files are associated with licenses. One method of software execution includes dividing software code into plural functions, transforming each function into plural tokens, and compar... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108313 | Rights expression profile system and method using templates A system and method for creating a rights expression for association with an item for use in a system for controlling use of the item in accordance with the rights expression, including specifying rights expression information indicating a manner of use of an item, ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108314 | Content use control device, recording device, reproduction device, recording medium, and content use control method A collective content consisting of a plurality of partial contents holding license information including a use condition can be appropriately used according to the use condition contained in the license information in each of the partial contents. A content use cont... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108312 | Content providing method, content providing facility, and user equipment A duplication/delivery center DDS records contents C11 and C12 on a recording medium M in accordance with requests from content providing apparatuses CP11 and CP12, duplicates the recording medium M, and delivers the recording medium M to... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103594 | Information processing apparatus According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided an information processing apparatus including: a storage unit configured to store a content which is limited in use based on a license information, the license information being correlated with the content; ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103592 | First computer process and second computer process proxy-executing code on behalf of first process Upon a first process encountering a triggering device, a second process chooses whether to proxy-execute code corresponding to the triggering device of the first process on behalf of such first process based at least in part on whether a license evaluator of the sec... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103596 | License verification system and method A system and method collects regulatory licensing requirements, employment data for a professional and licensing data for the professional, and determines the professional's licensing requirements. Based on the professional's licensing requirements, the system and m... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103595 | Licensing system and process for transferring license information A licensing system is provided for transferring license information for at least one license-requiring software component of software-controlled devices. The licensing system comprises a first, portable license data storage medium (3), which is provided with ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103591 | Flexible management process for multiple activities executed on partitionable platforms of a multiple processor system A method and system for flexible management of a plurality of activities executed within at least one computer hardware resource perimeter configured at least one multicellular computer platform. The activities are executed by identifying an activity using extended ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103593 | Method and system for providing DRM license A system for providing digital rights management (DRM) license is provided. The system includes a sink system requesting a license for content, a source system generating and providing a first rights token including binding information related to the license, in acc... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099366 | Software distribution method and apparatus The present invention provides for a method and apparatus for distributing digital information, such as software applications, to application users. By providing the digital information on unused memory space of a computer system, and providing a process for authori... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099365 | Extended data collection for multi-merchant purchasing environment for downloadable products A multi-merchant purchasing system is configured to identify downloadable products selected by a user for purchase. The identified downloadable products are offered by multiple merchants. The multi-merchant purchasing system enables the user to purchase all of the d... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099364 | Digital rights management of content when content is a future live event A method and system for managing use of items having usage rights associated therewith including a point of capture system adapted to generate content of a future event when the event occurs, a content distributor adapted to generate a rights label having usage righ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095471 | Software licensing management system A contract management mechanism is disclosed for managing contracts in the software licensing arena. The management mechanism may be used, for example, to manage one or more fulfillment contracts. In operation (assuming a software licensing implementation for the sa... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090662 | Method and apparatus for dynamic renewability of content A method and apparatus for dynamically and transparently renewing licenses associated with downloaded content. Licensing associated with content can allow the provider to retain control over the content after it has been downloaded on to the user's computer. A licen... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086537 | Distribution system of contents embedding license machine ID A server apparatus operates a content sale site for selling a digital content and connects communicably via a communication network to a client apparatus which may purchase a digital content for use in an electronic music apparatus. In the server apparatus, a commun... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086538 | Meeting usage of services in a environment A solution for metering usage of services—for example, in a SOA Framework—is proposed. For this purpose, the submission of any invocation of a provider service by a consumer service is intercepted by a license manager; a corresponding request is then submitted t... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8078542 | System and method for managing transfer of rights using shared state variables A method, system and device for transferring rights adapted to be associated with items from a rights supplier to a rights consumer, including obtaining a set of rights associated with an item, the set of rights including meta-rights specifying derivable rights that... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073780 | Token based club digital content licensing method A predetermined number of license units for each of a plurality of individually selectable pieces of digital content in a digital content suite are checked out when each piece of digital content is executed by a customer in a customer club. Execution of a requested ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069118 | Mediated electronic messaging with value-added services A method for processing a value-added electronic transmission, which includes obtaining user identification information (110), conveying software (120) to the user, where the software enables the user to selectively send electronic transmissions to int... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8069119 | System and method for software license management for concurrent license management and issuance The present invention is a method and system for software license management. The License Management System (LMS) is comprised of three components. These three components are the License Client (LC), the License Server (LS) and the Network License Manager (NLM). For... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8055588 | Digital media methods A consumer who encounters music of interest can operate a portable device to obtain a display of associated meta data (e.g., the title and artist, the artist's concert schedule, etc.) obtained from a remote computer system. The consumer can then initiate an electron... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8046390 | Feedback for unavailable content A particular method includes searching a database associated with a content provider. The database includes content items available from the content provider as well as content items that are not available from the content provider. The database is searched based on... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041642 | Predictive software license balancing A predictive software license balancing system for allocating a predetermined number of software licenses between two or more license servers located at different sites. Each license server compiles software license usage statistics and shares the usage statistics w... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8041643 | System and method of providing media content A method of providing media content access is disclosed that includes providing a list of available media content to a display device and receiving a selection related to the list of available media content. The method further includes sending data related to the se... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036990 | Systems and methods for electronically managing content licenses Systems and methods are provided for electronically managing content licenses. In one embodiment, information identifying content items found on a page is received from a client system through code embedded on the page, and a licensing database is searched to determ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8027925 | System method and apparatus for authorizing access The present invention comprises a method and apparatus for enforcing software licenses for resource libraries such as an application program interface (API), a toolkit, a framework, a runtime library, a dynamic link library (DLL), an applet (e.g. a Java or ActiveX a... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8015114 | Systems and methods for encouraging renewal of security-software subscriptions A computer-implemented method for encouraging the renewal of security-software subscriptions may comprise: 1) determining that a security-software subscription for a computing system has expired, 2) after determining that the security-software subscription has expir... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8005758 | Encryption/decryption method and apparatus for controlling content use based on license information A method and apparatus for encrypting or decrypting digital content are provided. In the method, a binding range is selected from a plurality of binding ranges of content use based on license information of the content, and the content is encrypted based on the sele... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7996334 | Methods and apparatus for recognizing compact discs and issuing corresponding credits For possible use in an electronic content distribution system, automatic recognition of compact discs or other storage media containing particular content, and corresponding account crediting is described. In an electronic content distribution system, such as those ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7987140 | Digital rights management of captured content based on criteria regulating a combination of elements When captured content is detected, the captured content is analyzed to determine whether any portion of the content is subject to digital rights management protection specified for content captured. Responsive to determining that the captured content is subject to a... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7983990 | Attorney terminal having outline preparation capabilities for managing trial proceedings The present invention provides attorney terminals which operate using an outline for storing, associating and managing case evidence, case law and work product for a given lawsuit at issue. Accessed through attorney terminals, the outline is structured based on a hi... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7983988 | Progressive licensing of component-based MES software The invention relates to a system (1), a method, and a standard framework (11) for usage-dependent licensing. When use is made of additional functionality, further instances, or specific adapters (131 . . . n), the system (1) w... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7983989 | Method and apparatus for importing content A method and apparatus for protecting digital content in a digital rights management (DRM) system are provided. The method includes: determining a usage rule for content included in a first content file based on usage constraint information included in the first con... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7970709 | Method and apparatus for client customization by executing software parts on plural servers A client computer requests plural program parts from various servers. The plural parts are authorized in accordance with usage rights and combined to create a new computer program. The parts can be executed as the new computer program on the servers, on the client, ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970710 | Method for carrying out the premium-based recommendation of content objects that can be downloaded to a mobile terminal A method for carrying out the premium-based recommendation of content objects that can be downloaded to a mobile terminal includes the following steps: transmitting a first content object DRMC from a content provider IA to a first terminal EG A; transmitting a first... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7962417 | System and method for distributing protected information A method and apparatus of encouraging distribution, registration, and purchase of free copyable software and other digital information which is accessed on a User's System via a Programmer's Program. Software tools which can be incorporated into a Programmer's Progr... | 06/14/2011 |
