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...that to encourage use of his new invention, the shopping cart, market owner Sylvan Goldman hired fake shoppers to push the carts around his store in Oklahoma City? Seems his customers were reluctant to give up their hand-carried baskets.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7962416 | Method and system to remotely enable software-based options for a trial period A system and method to remotely enable software based options for a trial period in remote equipment is disclosed. The invention includes receiving and authenticating a user, and receiving an option-enabling request from the user specifying the particular option req... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7958056 | Content data creating device, control method thereof, program for creating content data, and content data display device A contents data creating device is configured by equipping a computer with a contents creating software. In this contents creating software, a license information file stores license information containing information describing the permitted range of input data or ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953669 | Information processing apparatus A system is provided with which a user of an information processing apparatus is requested to pay only the license charges of the necessary functions of the pre-installed software and an information processing apparatus vendor or the like is also not requested to pa... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949607 | Image forming apparatus, license managing method for applications executed by image forming apparatus, program for implementing the method, and storage medium storing the program An image forming apparatus which enables a user to continue an operation using an application without restarting the application, by the image automatically accessing a license server to update a license for the application when the license becomes expired while the... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7949608 | Enabling a software service provider to automatically obtain software service Methods, and apparatus, enabling an originating service provider to automatically obtain from a 3rd party service provider and run a software service online. Method comprising: originating service provider negotiating license with 3rd party ser... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7937328 | Digital rights management A method for digital rights management includes receiving a selection input from a user, associating a customer number with a file based on the selection input, embedding the customer number and a file identifier associated with the file in the file, and sending the... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7925591 | Retail transactions involving digital content in a digital rights management (DRM) system A retailer facilitates issuance of a digital license from a licensor to a customer for a corresponding piece of digital content. The retailer receives payment for the license from the customer, where the payment is to be shared with the licensor in a pre-determined ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7925592 | System and method of using a proxy server to manage lazy content distribution in a social network A proxy server and corresponding method are provided for managing the controlled distribution of digital content as it propagates through a social network. A proxy server receives digital content and associated distribution parameters from an originating peer. The d... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7921059 | Licensing upsell A licensing system provides for various versions of an application within a software product. A license type is identified from a product key that is associated with the software product. The license type may correspond to a hybrid license. When the license type is ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7917381 | Compensation system for selected paths in hierarchical networks A compensation system is provided which assigns compensations to nodes in specific paths within a hierarchical network. The system receives a task and a compensation method from an original poster and generates an original, uniquely identifiable posting, which can b... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7912787 | Information processing apparatus and license distribution system There are provided an information processing apparatus and a license distribution system including the information processing apparatus in which the reproduction or duplication of a content can be limited to the interior of a domain and a benefit based on the fact t... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7908219 | Inbox management Media devices that transfer content to other devices may man age a user's received media files by creating a media device inbox. Shared content may be stored in an inbox cache that is separate from the device's main content library to exclude limited-access inbox co... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7895125 | Method, system and program products for sharing state information across domains State information is shared across domains. The state information is placed in one or more cookies that are shared across disjoint domains. An intermediary application is used, as one example, to enable the sharing of the state information (e.g., the cookies) across... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7890431 | Trial access for media files from media list Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for sharing media files. Briefly described, in architecture, one embodiment of the system, among others, can be implemented as follows. The system includes a file sharing application configured to ini... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7890428 | Flexible licensing architecture for licensing digital application An application includes a plurality of features. A transaction is engaged with a retailer to obtain a product license corresponding to the application. The product license defines at least one feature of the application that may be employed. A base copy of the appli... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7890429 | Method for managing a time-limited license on a computer application that can be run on a network component In a method for managing a time-limited license on a computer application that can be run on a network component, a license data record is created that contains at least information concerning the computer application to be licensed, a license period and a signing t... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7890430 | Technique for license management and online software license enforcement A software protection is presented comprising software license management and online software license enforcement, wherein individual licenses are provided for regulating the use of a software product, and the software product is individualized while being downloade... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7885897 | Intellectual property trading exchange and a method for trading intellectual property rights An intellectual property trading exchange is disclosed for facilitating the trading of intellectual property rights. The exchange includes at least one intellectual property license contract relating to intellectual property rights and a forum configured to allow a ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7885896 | Method for authorizing a substitute software license server The present method for authorizing a substitute software license server allows the software provider to approve the temporarily usage of the customer's substitute license server to process application file usage requests when the host license server fails. The host ... | 02/08/2011 |
