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 00019
The method as recited by Claim 10, wherein at least one of the one or more flags includes licensing information, and the method further comprises the steps of:
(c) in accordance with the authority level of the portion of associated content to be copied, granting a license for the right to copy and reproduce the portion of the associated content to be copies based on the licensing information of the flag.
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).
