| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7430542 |
System and method for activating a rendering device in a multi-level rights-management architect |
September 30, 2008 |
| A digital rights management system for the distribution, protection and use of electronic content. The system includes a client architecture which receives content, where the content is preferably protected by encryption and may include a license and individualization features. Conte |
| 7249107 |
Redistribution of rights-managed content |
July 24, 2007 |
| A technique for content redistribution. Digital content is packaged, and the package is associated with a first license that permits usage of the content on a first device. The first license also specifies the conditions upon which the content may be redistributed and licensed for us |
| 7225159 |
Method for authenticating and securing integrated bookstore entries |
May 29, 2007 |
| A method and system for providing an electronic shopping service integrated into a software application, and for controlling the set of web sites that are reachable from within the shopping service. Each web site is represented by data which is signed by a private key, and the data t |
| 7158953 |
Method and system for limiting the use of user-specific software features |
January 2, 2007 |
| A server architecture for a digital rights management system that distributes and protects rights in content. The server architecture includes a retail site which sells content items to consumers, a fulfillment site which provides to consumers the content items sold by the retail sit |
| 7051274 |
Scalable computing system for managing annotations |
May 23, 2006 |
| A scalable computing system for managing annotations is capable of handling requests for annotations to millions of documents a day. The computing system consists of multiple tiers of servers. A tier I server indicates whether there are annotations associated with a content source. A |
| 7017189 |
System and method for activating a rendering device in a multi-level rights-management architect |
March 21, 2006 |
| A digital rights management system for the distribution, protection and use of electronic content. The system includes a client architecture which receives content, where the content is preferably protected by encryption and may include a license and individualization features. Conte |
| 6973616 |
Associating annotations with a content source |
December 6, 2005 |
| A computing system capable of associating annotations with millions of content sources is described. An annotation is any content associated with a document space. The document space is any document identified by a document identifier. The document space provides the context for the |
| 6891953 |
Method and system for binding enhanced software features to a persona |
May 10, 2005 |
| A server architecture for a digital rights management system that distributes and protects rights in content. The server architecture includes a retail site which sells content items to consumers, a fulfillment site which provides to consumers the content items sold by the retail sit |
| 6629144 |
Recovery of online sessions for dynamic directory services |
September 30, 2003 |
| The recovery of online sessions for directory services is disclosed. A server maintains a directory service of a plurality of clients. In one embodiment, a unique token for each client, known to the client and to the server, permits the client to relog onto the server, for example, after |
| 6581096 |
Scalable computing system for managing dynamic communities in multiple tier computing system |
June 17, 2003 |
| A scalable computing system for managing dynamic communities stores and provides access to community and member information. A community is a dynamic and virtual association of users. Some example features of a community include: a home page, membership, non-real time based messaging |
| 6363352 |
Automatic scheduling and formation of a virtual meeting over a computer network |
March 26, 2002 |
| A method and system for scheduling a virtual meeting and automatically making the required connections near the time the virtual meeting is scheduled to take place between a meeting host's computer and at least one meeting participant's computer. The virtual meeting is scheduled by s |
| 6263367 |
Server-determined client refresh periods for dynamic directory services |
July 17, 2001 |
| Server-determined client refresh periods (CRPS) for dynamic directory services are disclosed. In a dynamic directory maintained by a server, clients must send a refresh message to the server every CRP in order to persist in the directory. The server desirably initially sets the CRP for |
| 6263308 |
Methods and apparatus for performing speech recognition using acoustic models which are improved |
July 17, 2001 |
| Automated methods and apparatus for synchronizing audio and text data, e.g., in the form of electronic files, representing audio and text expressions of the same work or information are described. Also described are automated methods of detecting errors and other discrepancies between |
| 6260011 |
Methods and apparatus for automatically synchronizing electronic audio files with electronic tex |
July 10, 2001 |
| Automated methods and apparatus for synchronizing audio and text data, e.g., in the form of electronic files, representing audio and text expressions of the same work or information are described. A statistical language model is generated from the text data. A speech recognition oper |
| 6016508 |
Server-determined client refresh periods for dynamic directory services |
January 18, 2000 |
| Server-determined client refresh periods (CRPs) for dynamic directory services are disclosed. In a dynamic directory maintained by a server, clients must send a refresh message to the server every CRP in order to persist in the directory. The server desirably initially sets the CRP for |
| 6006331 |
Recovery of online sessions for dynamic directory services |
December 21, 1999 |
| The recovery of online sessions for directory services is disclosed. A server maintains a directory service of a plurality of clients. In one embodiment, a unique token for each client, known to the client and to the server, permits the client to relog onto the server, for example, after |
