Patents by Inventor Edward Hiar

Edward Hiar 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).

  • Publication number: 20070271189
    Abstract: A system, apparatus, and method are directed to providing digital copy protection of media using a subscriber/publisher architecture. In one embodiment, a publisher employs various dynamic and/or static tamper detection, including, filter graph change detectors, ICE detectors, screen scraping detectors, debugger detectors, pattern recognizers, or the like. When a tampering event is detected by one or more of the publishers, the tamper event may be published for access by a subscriber. Published tamper events may be pushed to or pulled by the subscribers. When one or more subscribers receive the tamper event, the subscriber(s) may perform one or more tamper response actions according to various business rules, and/or other core rules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Publication date: November 22, 2007
    Applicant: Widevine Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Glenn Morten, Edward Hiar, Andre Jacobs, James Veres, Oscar Zhuk, Jeffrey Tinker
  • Publication number: 20070180231
    Abstract: A system, apparatus, and method are directed towards preventing entitlement/rights filter attacks in a conditional access to secure content over a network. An EMM that is configured to revoke access to selected content may be sent to a user, when a content provider, or the like, determines that access to the selected content is to be revoked for that user. A server may monitor for an acknowledgment of the revocation. If, after a predetermined time, a valid acknowledgement is not received by the server, the server may send another revocation EMM and again monitor for an acknowledgement response. If, after a predetermined number of retry attempts, a valid acknowledgement is not received, the server may send an alert message, investigate for possible network or device failures, change of encryption keys such as the CW, change a service key, or the like, for future content delivery to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2006
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: Widevine Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Glenn Morten, Edward Hiar