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Digital Media Applications on Peer-to-Patent

Media Protection and Proliferation a Priority for Many Applicants

Consumers today are inundated with a constant barrage of new forms of digital media. This has developed the desire for a single medium to access all of these new ideas and to ensure that consumers receive proper access to the forms of digital media they purchased. Peer-to-Patent has recently posted a number of patent applications dealing with digital media.

Disney Enterprises, Inc. has recently submitted its first two patent applications to Peer-to-Patent, both dealing with digital media. The first application encompasses digital rights management (DRM) protocols. A DRM protocol refers to any technological technique for controlling access to copyrighted material. It is implemented in either software or hardware and generally includes components that are part of the application or electronic device using the content. This patent application discloses a method and system for identifying a device implementing a DRM protocol. Once the electronic device attempts to use or access the encrypted content, a DRM module implementing the DRM protocol may request a license from a predetermined license server. In response, the license server can generate a license, which specifies the allowable uses of the content and which includes the decryption key for decrypting the encrypted content. The rights object can then be transmitted to the electronic device, thereby allowing the DRM module to decrypt the encrypted content and permit the electronic device to use the content in accordance with the allowable uses specified by the rights object. 

In its second application, Disney focuses on the need for multiple forms of digital media to be available to consumers in one medium. Currently if a consumer wishes to enjoy media content in more than one form he or she must purchase multiple versions of the same or similar media. This patent application discloses a method for providing a flexible format of media content, such as making multiple medial formats in a single package available to consumers. In one embodiment, supplemental content may be provided on any computer readable content medium and may be accessed by any remote device corresponding to a computer configured to utilize that content medium. Both Disney applications will be available for review on the Peer-to-Patent website until July 23, 2009.

Another application in the Peer-to-Patent digital media realm comes from first time applicant, Adobe Systems, Inc., and covers peer-to-peer computer network broadcasting. The peer-to-peer communication model uses diversified connectivity between participants in the network. This patent application discloses a computer-implemented method for broadcasting over a network using peer-to-peer technology. The invention described herein uses a control computer that selects at least one of multiple computers in the peer-to-peer network as an originating source of the broadcast and changes the originating source of the broadcast. During the broadcast and as indicated by the control computer, the originating source of the broadcast is changed from the at least one of the multiple computers in the peer network to at least another of the multiple computers in the peer network. The control computer may direct the broadcast such that different originating sources transmit different part of the same real-time broadcast and multiple computers in the peer network can be the originating sources of the broadcast. This application will be available for review on the Peer-to-Patent website until July 30, 2009.


P2P Picks Pleasing Patents

Every week that new patent applications arrive in the Peer-to-Patent office a few peek the staffs interest. The P2P Picks Pleasing Patents section includes some of our favorites. 


Here, an inventor offers a solution to inaccurate submissions to questions posted on the internet: put your money where your mouth is. Websites like Wikipedia or pay-for-answers databases, where ordinary users submit answers to questions, have become more popular over time. However, each of these systems are plagued with various problems, one of the most prevalent is the labor costs associated with judging the quality of answers. This patent application discloses a method and system for ranking answers in an online database and for facilitating the improvement of those answers by authors. In this method, an author of an answer bets that his or her answer is better than a higher ranked answer by another author. The potential financial penalty of the bet encourages honesty by both authors as to who has supplied the better answer. The challenger author’s answer replaces the higher ranked answer if the author of the higher ranked answer declines to bet against the challenger’s answer. This application will be available for review on the Peer-to-Patent website until July 30, 2009.


For those interested in interior design, Proctor and Gamble's Method for providing tissue products having coordinated decor features patent application sets out a method for coordinating tissue products with the style of your home or office. The application describes the process of selecting the style and the application of that style to the tissue product. This application will be available for review on the Peer-to-Patent website until September 10, 2009.


For those interested in stocks, this application seeks to establish a new simplified method of reporting market data to the public. Currently there are three networks responsible for generating and disseminating consolidated market data to the public under the joint self regulated organizations (SRO) plans and Exchange Act Rules; the NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ. The Simplified quote sharing calculation patent application from International Securities Exchange LLC discloses a method and system for allocating market data revenue among a plurality of entities that provide market quotes. The system first divides a day’s worth of trading activity into intervals considered to be sufficient to provide price discovery. By dividing the data into such intervals, the system effectively removes the impact of flickering quotations and fluctuating quote quantities from the equation. Subsequently, the system compares the price and current quantity of the quotes provided by market participants at each interval to the National Best Bid/Offer. This application will be available for review on the Peer-to-Patent website until August 6, 2009.


 

 

 



Applications Expiring Soon
Below are links to applications that will expire in the next 3 weeks. Please contribute any comments or prior art that you can so that these applications get reviewed before heading to the PTO!

Reducing likelihood of data loss during failovers in high-availability systems (From IBM)
Troubleshooting temporal behavior in "combinational" circuits (From Palo Alto Research Center Inc.)
Dynamic domain abstraction through meta-analysis (From Palo Alto Research Center Inc.)
Multi-stage deep packet inspection for lightweight devices (From Broadcom Corporation)
Real time automated exception notification and reporting solution (From Pro Se)
System and method for balancing goal guarantees and optimization of revenue in advertisement delivery under uneven, volatile traffic conditions (From Yahoo! Inc.)
Apparatus, system, and method for ensuring query execution plan stability in a database management system (From IBM)
Process of encryption and operational control of tagged data elements (From Pro Se)
Diagnosing intermittent faults (From Palo Alto Research Center Inc.)
Hybrid robust predictive optimization method of power system dispatch (From GE)
Electronic commerce rule-based multi-selection gifting (Orix Venture Finance LLC)
Method and system for loan application non-acceptance follow-up (Purpose Intellectual Property Management II, Inc.)
Education system to improve online reputation (From eBay 
Inc.)
Hybrid vehicle recharging system and method of operation (From Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc.)
Method and system for characterizing elements of a print production queuing model (From Xerox Corp.)
System and method for improving claims processing in the healthcare industry (From GE)
Method for executing target programs with compound quick keys (Mitac Technology Corp.)
Single-pass, concurrent-validation methods for generating test patterns for sequential circuits (From Yardstick Research, LLC)

Expiring Applications
Below are links to applications that are expiring on or before August 1:

Methods and systems for providing patient registration information (From GE)
Method and system for characterizing elements of a print production queuing model (From Xerox)
System and method for improving claims in the healthcare industry (From GE)
Method for executing target programs with compound quick keys (From Mitac Technology Corp.)
Method and system for exception detecting and alerting (From eBay)
Single-pass, concurrent-validation methods for generating test patterns for sequential circuits
(From Yardstick Research, LLC)
Method and system for ontology modeling based on the exchange of annotations (From Pro Se)
Method and system to improve engineered system decisions and transfer risk (From GE)
Method and system for controlling a voltage waveform (>From Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation) 
Method and system for implementing an invention exchange (From Pro Se)
Automated stacking system for wood products (From Weyerhaeuser Co.)
Form factor identification (From Visa)
Fault tree map generation (From Embraer-Empresa Brasileira Aeronautica S.A.)
Method and system for providing improved answers (From Pro Se)
Method and system for image pumping (University of Arkansas)
Method for preventing and detecting hash collisions of data during the data transmission (From Pro Se)
Network accessed storage files system query/set proxy service for a storage virtualization system (From EMC Corp.)
Identity-based address normalization (From Novell Inc.)
Simplified quote sharing calculation (From International Securities Exchange, LLC)
Dynamic staffing control notification method (From Pro Se)
Method and system for identifying a device implementing a digital rights management protocol (From Disney)
Flexible format media content and method for providing same (From Disney)


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