System and methods for secure transaction management and electronic
rights protection
Patent 5917912 Issued on June 29, 1999.
Estimated Expiration Date: January 8, 2017.
Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
713/187, COMPUTER PROGRAM MODIFICATION DETECTION BY CRYPTOGRAPHY705/40, Bill distribution or payment713/164, Security kernel or utility719/312INTERPROGRAM COMMUNICATION USING SHARED MEMORY
The present invention provides systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection. Electronic appliances such as computers equipped in accordance with the present invention help to ensure that information is accessed and used only in authorized ways, and maintain the integrity, availability, and/or confidentiality of the information. Such electronic appliances provide a distributed virtual distribution environment (VDE) that may enforce a secure chain of handling and control, for example, to control and/or meter or otherwise monitor use of electronically stored or disseminated information. Such a virtual distribution environment may be used to protect rights of various participants in electronic commerce and other electronic or electronic-facilitated transactions. Distributed and other operating systems, environments and architectures, such as, for example, those using tamper-resistant hardware-based processors, may establish security at each node. These techniques may be used to support an all-electronic information distribution, for example, utilizing the "electronic highway."
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