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 00020
The method as recited by Claim 19, wherein the licensing information comprises a licensing agreement, and the method further comprises the step of:
(d) collecting one or more licensing fees upon licensing the right to copy and reproduce the portion of associated content to be copied.
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).
