Patents by Inventor Colin Meldrum
Colin Meldrum has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20190297369Abstract: A video on demand system in the context of the Internet, for video rentals. A user accesses an on-line store to rent a video program or movie. The rental is for a limited time (such as 30 days) and within that thirty days, the video program or movie can only be viewed for a 24 hour time window. The time limits are enforced by the on-line store which maintains a database of each rental transaction and allows supply of the needed keys for decrypting the (encrypted) video or movie only if within the time limits.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventors: Augustin J. FARRUGIA, Jeffrey ROBBIN, Hiro MITSUJI, Mihailo DESPOTOVIC, Colin MELDRUM
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Patent number: 10313725Abstract: A video on demand system in the context of the Internet, for video rentals. A user accesses an on-line store to rent a video program or movie. The rental is for a limited time (such as 30 days) and within that thirty days, the video program or movie can only be viewed for a 24 hour time window. The time limits are enforced by the on-line store which maintains a database of each rental transaction and allows supply of the needed keys for decrypting the (encrypted) video or movie only if within the time limits.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2016Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Augustin J. Farrugia, Jeffrey Robbin, Hiro Mitsuji, Mihailo Despotovic, Colin Meldrum
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Publication number: 20160269767Abstract: A video on demand system in the context of the Internet, for video rentals. A user accesses an on-line store to rent a video program or movie. The rental is for a limited time (such as 30 days) and within that thirty days, the video program or movie can only be viewed for a 24 hour time window. The time limits are enforced by the on-line store which maintains a database of each rental transaction and allows supply of the needed keys for decrypting the (encrypted) video or movie only if within the time limits.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: Augustin J. Farrugia, Jeffrey Robbin, Hiro Mitsuji, Mihailo Despotovic, Colin Meldrum
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Patent number: 9374616Abstract: A video on demand system in the context of the Internet, for video rentals. A user accesses an on-line store to rent a video program or movie. The rental is for a limited time (such as 30 days) and within that thirty days, the video program or movie can only be viewed for a 24 hour time window. The time limits are enforced by the on-line store which maintains a database of each rental transaction and allows supply of the needed keys for decrypting the (encrypted) video or movie only if within the time limits.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2014Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Augustin J. Farrugia, Jeffrey Robbin, Hiro Mitsuji, Mihailo Despotovic, Colin Meldrum
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Publication number: 20140298376Abstract: A video on demand system in the context of the Internet, for video rentals. A user accesses an on-line store to rent a video program or movie. The rental is for a limited time (such as 30 days) and within that thirty days, the video program or movie can only be viewed for a 24 hour time window. The time limits are enforced by the on-line store which maintains a database of each rental transaction and allows supply of the needed keys for decrypting the (encrypted) video or movie only if within the time limits.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2014Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Augustin J. Farrugia, Jeffrey Robbin, Hiro Mitsuji, Mihailo Despotovic, Colin Meldrum
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Patent number: 8782521Abstract: Improved graphical user interfaces and techniques for providing remote media content to users are disclosed. According to one aspect, an application window display on a display device can expose a user not only to local media content but also to remote media content that is associated with the local media content. The local media content is stored locally, while the remote media content is stored remotely and available from a remote media server. According to another aspect, the remote media content to be displayed can be determined in a manner that is dependent on a user interaction with the local media content. According to still a further aspect, the manner by which the remote media content is displayed can be dependent on the availability of remote media content at the remote media server.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2010Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christopher L. Bell, Alan Ward, Colin Meldrum, Timothy Benjamin Martin
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Patent number: 8706638Abstract: A video on demand system in the context of the Internet, for video rentals. A user accesses an on-line store to rent a video program or movie. The rental is for a limited time (such as 30 days) and within that thirty days, the video program or movie can only be viewed for a 24 hour time window. The time limits are enforced by the on-line store which maintains a database of each rental transaction and allows supply of the needed keys for decrypting the (encrypted) video or movie only if within the time limits.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2008Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Augustin J. Farrugia, Jeffrey Robbin, Hiro Mitsuji, Mihailo Despotovic, Colin Meldrum
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Patent number: 8321294Abstract: Techniques for improved interaction between online retailers and traditional brick-and-mortar retailers that provide patron-accessible networks are disclosed. The location and/or the fact that any given purchase was made from a particular retailer's patron-accessible network can be tracked for various purposes. The invention can facilitate partnering between online retailers (i.e., online stores) and traditional ‘brick-and-mortar’ business establishments. As an example, the invention can be used to track and give credit for online purchases at an online retailer that are facilitated by a brick-and-mortar retailer.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2012Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Aople Inc.Inventors: Claude P. Carlier, Colin Meldrum, Tyler A. Strand
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Publication number: 20120137376Abstract: Improved techniques that enable users to download digital media assets are disclosed. According to one aspect, digital media assets that a user has acquired from a remote media repository can be authorized for download multiple times. This, for example, allows a user to subsequently re-downloaded digital media assets that the user previously acquired. In one embodiment, digital media assets that a user previously downloaded to a user client device from a remote media repository can be made available to the user for subsequent re-download. Advantageously, a remote media repository can, in effect, provide users with a remote backup for previously acquired digital media assets.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2012Publication date: May 31, 2012Inventors: Payam Mirrashidi, Neale Patton, Colin Meldrum, David Neumann, Alan Ward, Hiro Mitsuji
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Publication number: 20120130840Abstract: Techniques for improved interaction between online retailers and traditional brick-and-mortar retailers that provide patron-accessible networks are disclosed. The location and/or the fact that any given purchase was made from a particular retailer's patron-accessible network can be tracked for various purposes. The invention can facilitate partnering between online retailers (i.e., online stores) and traditional ‘brick-and-mortar’ business establishments. As an example, the invention can be used to track and give credit for online purchases at an online retailer that are facilitated by a brick-and-mortar retailer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2012Publication date: May 24, 2012Inventors: Claude P. Carlier, Colin Meldrum, Tyler A. Strand
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Patent number: 8135865Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for synchronizing and transferring digital media items. One or more media items are received, from a network operating environment, at a first device. A first media database on the first device, including metadata associated with the media items, is synchronized with a second media database on a second device. The one or more media items are moved from the first device to the second device. The one or more media items are copied from the second device to the first device.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2008Date of Patent: March 13, 2012Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: David Fleischman, Christopher R. Wysocki, Payam Mirrashidi, Sean Kelly, Charles Pisula, Alan Ward, Colin Meldrum, Patrice Gautier, Jeffrey Robbin
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Patent number: 8117309Abstract: Improved techniques that enable users to download digital media assets are disclosed. According to one aspect, digital media assets that a user has acquired from a remote media repository can be authorized for download multiple times. This, for example, allows a user to subsequently re-downloaded digital media assets that the user previously acquired. In one embodiment, digital media assets that a user previously downloaded to a user client device from a remote media repository can be made available to the user for subsequent re-download. Advantageously, a remote media repository can, in effect, provide users with a remote backup for previously acquired digital media assets.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2009Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Payam Mirrashidi, Neale Patton, Colin Meldrum, David Neumann, Alan Ward, Hiro Mitsuji
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Patent number: 8108261Abstract: Techniques for improved interaction between online retailers and traditional brick-and-mortar retailers that provide patron-accessible networks are disclosed. The location and/or the fact that any given purchase was made from a particular retailer's patron-accessible network can be tracked for various purposes. The invention can facilitate partnering between online retailers (i.e., online stores) and traditional ‘brick-and-mortar’ business establishments. As an example, the invention can be used to track and give credit for online purchases at an online retailer that are facilitated by a brick-and-mortar retailer.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2007Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Claude P. Carlier, Colin Meldrum, Tyler A. Strand
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Publication number: 20100281369Abstract: Improved graphical user interfaces and techniques for providing remote media content to users are disclosed. According to one aspect, an application window display on a display device can expose a user not only to local media content but also to remote media content that is associated with the local media content. The local media content is stored locally, while the remote media content is stored remotely and available from a remote media server. According to another aspect, the remote media content to be displayed can be determined in a manner that is dependent on a user interaction with the local media content. According to still a further aspect, the manner by which the remote media content is displayed can be dependent on the availability of remote media content at the remote media server.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2010Publication date: November 4, 2010Inventors: Chris Bell, Alan Ward, Colin Meldrum, Timothy Beniamin Martin
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Patent number: 7774708Abstract: Improved graphical user interfaces and techniques for providing remote media content to users are disclosed. According to one aspect, an application window display on a display device can expose a user not only to local media content but also to remote media content that is associated with the local media content. The local media content is stored locally, while the remote media content is stored remotely and available from a remote media server. According to another aspect, the remote media content to be displayed can be determined in a manner that is dependent on a user interaction with the local media content. According to still a further aspect, the manner by which the remote media content is displayed can be dependent on the availability of remote media content at the remote media server.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2006Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Chris Bell, Alan Ward, Colin Meldrum, Timothy Benjamin Martin
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Publication number: 20100185655Abstract: Improved techniques that enable users to download digital media assets are disclosed. According to one aspect, digital media assets that a user has acquired from a remote media repository can be authorized for download multiple times. This, for example, allows a user to subsequently re-downloaded digital media assets that the user previously acquired. In one embodiment, digital media assets that a user previously downloaded to a user client device from a remote media repository can be made available to the user for subsequent re-download. Advantageously, a remote media repository can, in effect, provide users with a remote backup for previously acquired digital media assets.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2009Publication date: July 22, 2010Inventors: Payam Mirrashidi, Neale Patton, Colin Meldrum, David Neumann, Alan Ward, Hiro Mitsuji
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Patent number: 7657459Abstract: Techniques to facilitate acquiring a media season, or a related series, of digital media assets from an on-line media store are disclosed. A user can view various media seasons that have been listed as available for purchase from the on-line media store. A user can choose to purchase a particular media season, either before or during the season. Subsequent to the purchase of the particular media season, digital media assets of the particular media season can be delivered to the user once the digital media assets become available. Since the monitoring is computerized and the delivery is electronic, once a digital media asset becomes available, delivery can be automatically processed.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2006Date of Patent: February 2, 2010Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Alexandrea Anderson, Debbie Shimizu, Elizabeth d'Errico, Robert Kondrk, Patrice Gautier, Thomas Burkholder, Colin Meldrum
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Publication number: 20090182670Abstract: A video on demand system in the context of the Internet, for video rentals. A user accesses an on-line store to rent a video program or movie. The rental is for a limited time (such as 30 days) and within that thirty days, the video program or movie can only be viewed for a 24 hour time window. The time limits are enforced by the on-line store which maintains a database of each rental transaction and allows supply of the needed keys for decrypting the (encrypted) video or movie only if within the time limits.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2008Publication date: July 16, 2009Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Augustin J. Farrugia, Jeffrey Robbin, Hiro Mitsuji, Mihailo Despotovic, Colin Meldrum
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Publication number: 20090089116Abstract: Improved approaches to generate, distribute, redeem or return codes are disclosed. The codes can be used (i.e., redeemed) to purchase products from an online store. The codes can be electronically requested and received. In one embodiment, the codes can be acquired from a server via a network. The codes can be content specific codes that are redeemable for particular content, such as specific digital media assets. The codes can be returnable, and royalty obligations that may be due can be adjusted for returns.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2007Publication date: April 2, 2009Inventors: Stephen Quirk, Colin Meldrum, Claude P. Carlier
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Publication number: 20090089117Abstract: Techniques for improved interaction between online retailers and traditional brick-and-mortar retailers that provide patron-accessible networks are disclosed. The location and/or the fact that any given purchase was made from a particular retailer's patron-accessible network can be tracked for various purposes. The invention can facilitate partnering between online retailers (i.e., online stores) and traditional ‘brick-and-mortar’ business establishments. As an example, the invention can be used to track and give credit for online purchases at an online retailer that are facilitated by a brick-and-mortar retailer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2007Publication date: April 2, 2009Inventors: Claude P. Carlier, Colin Meldrum, Tyler A. Strand