Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20080071886
Filing Date: December 29, 2006
Inventors: Wesley Scott Ashton, Rama Roberts, Roy Roberts
Assignee:
Current U.S. Classification: 709, 709/219000, 707, 707/003000
View Prior Art for Claim 00001
A method of obtaining authority for copying content from a website accessible on an internet, comprising the steps of:
(a) using the internet to identify content on a website and one or more flags associated with the content, wherein each flag provides an authority level for copying and subsequent reproduction of a portion or all of the associated content; and
(b) copying content from the website in accordance with the authority level of the one or more flags.
Patent/Application # 11/204,059
Description
Application which seems to have some claim overlap
Patent/Application # US20020107701A1
Description
Systems and methods for metering Internet content deployed by content providers based on a technology platform licensed from content technology providers are provided.
Patent/Application # US20060059128A1
Description
A method and apparatus for displaying search results and identifying licensing status for each item in the search result. The invention includes a user menu interface for performing a query on selected criteria and listing results of the query in a specified format. A determination is made as to licensing status for each of the results in the listing an indication is provided with respect to the licensing status for each result in the listing.
Patent/Application # 6978377
Description
This application appears to be covered by the use of Copy Control Information (CCI) (often linked to CDs, DVDs); however the general patent from Sony and its references are written inclusive of all datatypes between 2 systems and include a description of transmission of CCI along with the data. CCI data is well understood to be comprised of bit flags that signal copy permission, generational control and count among other things that 2 systems agree upon. These enforcements on top of CCI is left to the implementation and usually assumed to be some form of CP system (e.g. DRM).
