Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
726031000 | Limitations on number or amount of copies | 43 |
20080209579 | Electro-Mechanical System For Non-Duplication of Operating System - An electromechanical system consists of a memory storage unit in which the licensed operating system is stored. The function of this device is to recognize the requested data and thereby allow the operating system from the memory storage unit according to the instructions set to this device. It is an effective means for protecting the operating system in the device from non-duplication. The operating system present in the memory storage unit is constructed as license specific. | 08-28-2008 |
20080295183 | Playback Device, Method and Program, and Recording Medium | 11-27-2008 |
20090077674 | SOFTWARE INSTALLATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COPY PROTECTION - The present invention relates to a software installation system and a method for copy protection. The software installation system includes a support server in which first installation data for installing software is stored; a recording medium in which an RFID tag storing URL information of the support server is installed and second installation data for installing the software is recorded; a computer having a computer interface unit and a data reading unit reading the second installation data recorded in the recording medium; an RFID reader for reading the RFID tag installed in the recording medium; a portable information processing terminal including a wireless communication unit accessing the support server through wireless Internet, a terminal interface unit connected to the computer interface unit of the computer, and a terminal controller downloading the first installation data and controlling the computer through the terminal interface unit and the computer interface unit. | 03-19-2009 |
20090172824 | Corruption of swarm downloads in a decentralized network employing advanced intelligent corruption handling - An eMule network employs Advanced Intelligent Corruption Handling (AICH). Agent clients offer copies of a corrupted version of content. When the corrupted copies participate in swarm downloads with uncorrupted copies, the AICH is triggered. The agent clients are sufficient in number to out vote all other clients in a trusted root hash determination performed by the AICH. As a result, one of the agent clients provides a recovery packet used by the AICH to determine good and bad blocks. Since the recovery packet includes block hashes for the corrupted version of the content, blocks uploaded by clients providing uncorrupted versions are determined to be bad blocks and the clients identified as bad sources. The agent clients, on the other hand, either fail to upload a requested block or do so in a manner to discourage a user of the downloading client to wait for completion of the upload. | 07-02-2009 |
20090187995 | 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 downloaded from a license server, and the execution of each individualized software product is monitored in agreement with the individual license terms corresponding to the individual software download. | 07-23-2009 |
20090205055 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC LICENSE DISTRIBUTION FOR PRE-INSTALLED SOFTWARE - The subject application is directed to a system and method for electronic license distribution for pre-installed software. Data communication is first commenced between a data processing device and an associated portable data device. License data is then communicated between the portable data device and the data processing device, with the license data corresponding to a software license associated with the previously installed software resident in a data storage associated with the data processing device. The previously installed software is then activated in accordance with the communicated license data. | 08-13-2009 |
20090217387 | COPY LIMITATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND METHOD, AND CONTENT STORAGE DEVICE - A content storage device comprises a content storage unit which stores master content with content handling information including conditions of copy limitations added thereto, content information management units which acquire to individually manage content information related to the conditions of the copy limitations from the content handling information added to the stored content in storing the master content, a content information provision unit which reads to provide management information in response to a request, and a copy limitation processing unit which determines the conditions of the copy limitations from the management information of the content information management unit in copy requesting of the master content and instructs execution of copy processing only when the conditions are satisfied, and updates the conditions of the copy limitations in accordance with instructing execution of the copy processing. | 08-27-2009 |
20090249493 | Method and System for Determining Software License Compliance - According to one embodiment, a method includes receiving data regarding a plurality of licenses. Each license is associated with one or more respective software products. The data is partitioned such that first and second licenses of the plurality of licenses are grouped together. The first and second licenses are each associated with at least a first software product of the one or more respective software products. A first group identification is assigned to the first and second licenses. | 10-01-2009 |
20090249494 | Method and System for Determining Software License Compliance - According to one embodiment, a method includes providing one or more selectable criteria that each characterize a respective software license restriction. One or more selections of the one or more selectable criteria are received. A license metric is generated. The license metric corresponds to one or more selections of the one or more selectable criteria. A total number of instances of one or more software products is determined using the generated license metric. | 10-01-2009 |
20100017892 | IP STREAMING COPY CONTROL METHOD AND SYSTEM - Copy control desired by a streaming content provider is enabled using a relatively simple configuration. In an IP streaming copy control method, even when a client terminal receives streaming content which is not assigned with copy control information via a network from a streaming server, if the streaming content is streaming content satisfying a condition beforehand set to the client terminal, the client terminal outputs a reproduced signal of the streaming by assigning copy control information to the reproduced signal and then delivers the reproduced signal to a TV/video recorder. | 01-21-2010 |
20100071075 | Copying A Web Element With Reassigned Permissions - Disclosed herein is a computer implemented method and system for copying a web element with reassigned permissions. An element creator creates the web element in a first location in an online environment. The element creator assigns the permissions to one or more of multiple template users for the web element. The element creator defines a copy operation for the web element for a copying user. The definition comprises selecting one or more of the template users for the reassignment of the permissions. The copying user copies the web element to a second location in the online environment by performing the defined copy operation. The permissions of the selected template users are reassigned to the copying user for the copied web element. | 03-18-2010 |
20100095386 | Realest invention - Music files that are downloaded from the internet are encrypted so that they are compatible with cd burning and allow music or movie files to be copied to disc a predetermined amount of time (either once or twice). Now disc burning programs only allow files (movies, music) from internet to be burned once or twice. These are the new ones that come out (disc burning programs). The old ones still operate the way they do unless running into newly encrypted files. | 04-15-2010 |
20100107262 | DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR CONTENTS BASED ON STREAMING SERVICE AND SYSTEM FOR EXECUTING THE METHOD - A digital rights management (DRM) method for a content based on a streaming service and a system for executing the method are provided. The DRM method includes the steps of: generating and maintaining content information about a content; and updating a number of plays of the content information when play information is received from a service page displaying the content, wherein the content and a cloned identical content are classified using different identifiers. | 04-29-2010 |
20100115632 | OUTPUT CONTROL METHOD - An output control method for controlling copy operation for a digital broadcast program permitted to be recorded for one generation (copy one generation) with an improved operating convenience. A digital content and a plurality of types of copy control information for controlling the copies of the digital content are received, and in accordance with the copy control information, the digital content is output to a plurality of recording media connected through a network. If first information contained in the copy control information received indicates copy generation information to permit copies for one generation and second information contained in the copy control information indicates “limited number of copies permitted” mode permitting a predetermined number of copies, then the digital content is output to only one of the recording media in a state permitting copying up to the predetermined number. | 05-06-2010 |
20100115633 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND SOFTWARE ENABLING METHOD THEREOF - A method of enabling software installed in an image forming apparatus, and an image forming apparatus to perform the method, the method including connecting a first license device having at least one license which can enable the software to the first image forming apparatus; enabling the software using the at least one license; reconnecting the first license device to the first image forming apparatus; and disabling the enabled software. | 05-06-2010 |
20100125916 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING CONTENT - An apparatus and method for controlling content are provided. A memory which stores storage medium information regarding a storage medium, and a main control unit which groups a plurality of contents in the storage medium into a plurality of groups, allocates a group nonce to each group, stores the group nonce in the storage medium, and if a move of at least one content item of the plurality of content items is requested, controls the move of the content item based on whether the storage medium information contains an identifier or a group nonce of a first target group including the requested content item. | 05-20-2010 |
20100146640 | Method and device for distributing electronic documents - Embodiments provide a method and device for distributing an electronic document. The electronic document possesses first authorized copies information used to record a first number of authorized copies for the electronic document a local user may distribute. Every time the electronic document is distributed to a user, second authorized copies information is sent to the user, which second authorized copies information is used to record a second number of authorized copies for the electronic document the user may distribute, and the second number of authorized copies is less than or equal to the first number of authorized copies currently recorded in the first authorized copies information. | 06-10-2010 |
20100154067 | INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS AND COPY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - An information recording apparatus mutually communicates with a server via a communication network, the server performing management by correlating medium identification information that enables unique identification of an information recording medium with information related to number of allowable copying times of digital contents recorded on the information recording medium. The apparatus acquires the medium identification information of the inserted information recording medium, and acquires information related to the number of allowable copying times correlated with the acquired medium identification information, from the server, and acquires copy destination history information in a copying process, for recordation in a storage unit. When a user's request is received, the information related to the number of allowable copying times and the copy destination history information recorded in the storage unit is correlated with the medium identification information and outputted to and displayed on a display unit. | 06-17-2010 |
20100162414 | Digital Rights Management for Differing Domain-Size Restrictions - A digital rights management system includes a domain authority controller that manages different domain-size restrictions for different content sources. A subdomain is created for each content source and has a corresponding domain-size restriction. Different domain-size restrictions for the content sources are stored along with the number of devices registered for each subdomain. A domain authority controller is operable to register a device with a subdomain if the corresponding domain-size restriction is not violated. A device is allowed to use content from a content source if it is registered with the subdomain for the content source. | 06-24-2010 |
20100242122 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus ( | 09-23-2010 |
20100293622 | AVAILABILITY OF PERMISSION MODELS IN ROAMING ENVIRONMENTS - A request for a digital license associated with a software product is received from a device. The request includes a user ID of a user of the device, with the digital license having been generated in response to a request to activate the software product with a product key. A check is made as to whether a digital license bound to the user ID is available, and also whether the digital license can be returned to the device in accordance with the terms of the digital license. The digital license is returned if the digital license can be returned to the device in accordance with the terms (regardless of whether the device is a same device from which the product key was activated), and otherwise is not returned. The digital license can be removed from the device in accordance with the terms of the digital license. | 11-18-2010 |
20100319072 | Hardware Specific Product License Validation - Server-side validation of hardware specific software product licenses is described herein. | 12-16-2010 |
20110072522 | System and Method for Capacity Licensing - A method and system for capacity licensing are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer implemented method comprises receiving a capability request from a device, sending a capability response to the device, the capability response comprising a serving of license rights. A deduction record is stored, the deduction record deducting a license from a license pool. An information request is received from the device, and an information response is sent. | 03-24-2011 |
20110107438 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ALLOWING COPYING OR DISTRIBUTION OF A COPY PROTECTED SIGNAL - A copy protection system and method for allowing copying or distribution of a copy protected signal is disclosed. One embodiment includes an apparatus and method for receiving a content signal via a WiFi communications channel, the content signal including a control signal; and using a modifying circuit coupled with the WiFi communications channel to generate an analog copy protection signal based on the control signal, the control signal causing the modifying circuit to add or delete the analog copy protection signal to or from the content signal. | 05-05-2011 |
20110179500 | ELECTRONIC MEDIA DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS - A system and method for sharing electronic content. A sending user can specify one or more criteria that a recipient memory device must have to store the content. The sending user can also specify a digital rights management control that can be associated with the content. The content can be transferred to the recipient if the recipient memory device has the specified properties. Software at the recipient can ensure that the content is handled in accordance with the digital rights management controls specified by the sender. | 07-21-2011 |
20110247086 | CONTENT TRANSMITTING METHOD, CONTENT TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, AND CONTENT RECEIVING APPARATUS - In a content transmitting method in a content transmitting apparatus, wherein the content transmitting apparatus adds copy control information for indicating to execute a recoding control with either one of “copy can be made only one (1) generation” or “number of times of copying is limited”, on number-limited copy target content, when distributing the number-limited copy target content, which can be copied within a region of limited number of pieces. | 10-06-2011 |
20120180139 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR - An information processor according to the present invention is designed to operate in accordance with a right to use a content that is stored on a first storage medium. The first storage medium has a write-once area on which right-to-use information is writable a limited number of times, and a data area on which data of the content is stored. The information processor includes: a second storage medium; a right-to-use information generating section, which generates right-to-use information indicating whether the first storage medium or the second storage medium holds the right to use the content; and a drive device that writes the right-to-use information on the write-once area. | 07-12-2012 |
20120278904 | CONTENT DISTRIBUTION REGULATION BY VIEWING USER - A content presentation system and method allowing content providers to regulate the presentation of content on a per-user-view basis. Content is distributed an associated license option on the number of individual consumers or viewers allowed to consume the content. Consumers are presented with a content selection and a choice of licenses allowing consumption of the content. The users consuming the content on a display device are monitored so that if the number of user-views licensed is exceeded, remedial action may be taken. | 11-01-2012 |
20130152221 | LIMITING CONCURRENT VIEWING SESSIONS ON MULTIPLE USER DEVICES - System devices include network interfaces to communicate with user devices associated with a user, memories for storing instructions to be executed by processors, and the processors. The processors are configured to execute the instructions to receive, from a first user device, among the user devices, a request for content; initiate an upload of the requested content to the first user device in response to the request; receive a request for a license key from the first user device in response to the initiation of the upload; determine whether a number of concurrent sessions with the user devices exceeds a maximum number; and send the license key to the first user device when the processors determine that the number of concurrent sessions does not exceed the maximum number. | 06-13-2013 |
20130263289 | INFORMATION MANAGEMENT OF DATA ASSOCIATED WITH MULTIPLE CLOUD SERVICES - A method and system for providing information management of data from hosted services receives information management policies for a hosted account of a hosted service, requests data associated with the hosted account from the hosted service, receives data associated with the hosted account from the hosted service, and provides a preview version of the received data to a computing device. In some examples, the system indexes the received data to associate the received data with a user of an information management system, and/or provides index information related to the received data to the computing device. | 10-03-2013 |
20130276150 | Output Control Method - An output control method for controlling copy operation for a digital broadcast program permitted to be recorded for one generation (copy one generation) with an improved operating convenience. A digital content and a plurality of types of copy control information for controlling the copies of the digital content are received, and in accordance with the copy control information, the digital content is output to a plurality of recording media connected through a network. If first information contained in the copy control information received indicates copy generation information to permit copies for one generation and second information contained in the copy control information indicates “limited number of copies permitted” mode permitting a predetermined number of copies, then the digital content is output to only one of the recording media in a state permitting copying up to the predetermined number. | 10-17-2013 |
20140075583 | MANAGEMENT OF MEDIA ITEMS - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for making policy decisions relating to when to sync and when to default to cloud storage and for addressing the need for solutions relating to how to share media items between overlapping user accounts | 03-13-2014 |
20140182001 | Service Management Apparatus, Program, and Service Management Method - A service management apparatus is provided that allows management of a shared license among devices, including a user storage unit storing a user and at least one associated terminal; a license information storage unit storing a license including a terminal to be permitted to use a predetermined service and license information for identifying a setting limitation; a setting request reception unit receiving a setting request for the license including information for identifying the terminal that has issued the setting request and the user; an associated terminal identification processing unit identifying the terminal that is associated with the user included in the request; a license identification processing unit identifying the license that each terminal to be identified is permitted to use and is settable to the terminal that has issued the request; and a license setting processing unit setting the identified license to the terminal that has issued the request. | 06-26-2014 |
20140304840 | Deleting Information to Maintain Security Level - A method, system, mediation server, client, and computer program for deleting a copied file in which a master file is duplicated while maintaining a certain level of security. A mediation server receives and stores a copied file in which a master file stored in a server is duplicated, generates private-key information and public-key information, and transmits the generated public-key information and the copied file to a client. The client receives and stores the copied file and the public-key information. In a case where the copied file is updated, the client encrypts difference information on the difference arising in the updating using the public-key information and transmits the difference information to the mediation server. The client determines whether the condition for being secure is satisfied when a process for updating the copied file becomes possible. When determining that the condition is not satisfied, the client deletes the copied file. | 10-09-2014 |
20140325687 | DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT HANDLER AND RELATED METHODS - A system and method of providing universal digital rights management system protection is described. One feature of the invention concerns systems and methods for repackaging and securing data packaged under any file format type, compression technique, or digital rights management system. Another feature of the invention is directed to systems and methods for securing data by providing scalability through the use of modular data manipulation software objects. | 10-30-2014 |
20140366162 | Starvationless Kernel-Aware Distributed Scheduling of Software Licenses - Methods, systems, and apparatuses for implementing shared-license software management are provided. Shared-license software management may be performed by generating a request for a license for running a process of a shared-license software application. The request is communicated to a license server, and the process is made available for scheduling an operation when a grant for the requested license is received from the license server, wherein the grant comprises a license quantum, which is an amount of central processing unit time for which the license has been granted to the process. | 12-11-2014 |
20150052621 | MEDIA CONTENT STREAMING SERVICE - In one example embodiment, a server includes a receiver configured to receive, from a first device having rights to use or play first media content, characteristics of the first device or a user of the first device; a group manager configured to add the first device into a content sharing group having a second device, based on the characteristics of the first device or the user of the first device; a content list manager configured to transmit, to the first device, a group content list that includes second media content that the second device has rights to play; and a streaming transmitter configured to stream the second media content to the first device. | 02-19-2015 |
20150128296 | ACTIVATION CODE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREVENTING SOFTWARE PIRACY - A system and method for preventing piracy of a given software application limits the number of times that such software application is activated. A given software application must be activated in order to become fully functional. The user must provide a unique software identification code, relating to the specific software which the user is attempting to activate, to a remote provider. The remote provider determines the number of times that such specific software has already been activated, and provides an activation code to the user unless the number of activations exceeds a predetermined threshold. Once activated, the software becomes fully operational, and the user is allowed complete access to its functions. | 05-07-2015 |
20150332023 | MANAGEMENT OF DIGITAL COPIES OF REGISTRATIONS USING MOBILE DEVICES - A master digital copy of a registration is transmitted. The registration is proof that a physical object has been registered with a registration authority. A valid peripheral digital copy of the registration is received. The valid peripheral digital copy of the registration was made from the master digital copy of the registration and is incapable of being used to make other valid digital copies of the registration. | 11-19-2015 |
20160026778 | ACTIVATION CODE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREVENTING SOFTWARE PIRACY - A system and method for preventing piracy of a given software application limits the number of times that such software application is activated. A given software application must be activated in order to become fully functional. The user must provide a unique software identification code, relating to the specific software which the user is attempting to activate, to a remote provider. The remote provider determines the number of times that such specific software has already been activated, and provides an activation code to the user unless the number of activations exceeds a predetermined threshold. Once activated, the software becomes fully operational, and the user is allowed complete access to its functions. | 01-28-2016 |
20160050455 | CHECKING IN AND CHECKING OUT CONTENT FROM A MEDIA CLIENT DEVICE - A device may be configured to store content. The device may store a copy count that indicates a quantity of copies of the content that are checked out from the device. The device may receive a request to provide a first copy of the content to a requesting device. The device may select a client device to which to send a check-in message based on the copy count failing to satisfy a threshold count. The client device may store a second copy of the content that is checked out from the device. The device may send the check-in message to the client device. The device may receive a check-in response from the client device that checks in the second copy of the content. The device may provide the first copy of the content to the requesting device based on an updated copy count satisfying the threshold count. | 02-18-2016 |
20160063222 | LICENSE MANAGEMENT METHODS - License management methods for use in a license management system are provided. The license management system includes licenses and first devices, each of which obtains one of the licenses. First, a license request from a second device is received and a license grade for each of the first devices and the second device is separately calculated based on a historical record of license usage corresponding to the first devices and the second device and an algorithm in response to the license request. Then, whether to agree the second device to obtain one of the licenses is determined according to the calculated grades and the number of remaining available licenses within the licenses. | 03-03-2016 |
20160078240 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SECURITY IN REMOTE DIGITAL FORENSIC ENVIRONMENT - An apparatus and method for collecting digital evidence from a target system to be analyzed at a remote location and then providing security in a remote digital forensic environment based on the collected digital evidence. The method of providing security includes making, by a security providing apparatus, an evidence collection request for collection of evidence of an evidence collection-target apparatus from an evidence collection agent in a remote digital forensic environment, collecting evidence data corresponding to the evidence collection request from the evidence collection agent, verifying the evidence data based on a signature value of the evidence data collected from the evidence collection agent, generating evidence analysis data based on the verified evidence data, verifying the evidence analysis data based on a signature value of the evidence analysis data, and providing security for the evidence collection-target apparatus based on results of the verification of the evidence analysis data. | 03-17-2016 |