Patents Assigned to NOW TECHNOLOGIES (IP) LIMITED
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Patent number: 10469601Abstract: There is disclosed an apparatus configured to provide a chart of content items to a plurality of user devices. The apparatus is configured to enable individual users to temporarily access one or more content items listed in the chart. The apparatus comprises a user device interface configured to communicate with user device applications and a permissions module configured to define user access permissions, including temporary user access permissions, relating to individual ones of the one or more items of content. The apparatus also provides a distribution module configured to implement permissions defined in the permission module in relation to user devices by making available one or more items of content listed in the chart to at least one user device application.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2011Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: NOW TECHNOLOGIES (IP) LIMITEDInventors: Marc Samuel Lewis, Christopher Simon Gorman, Nicholas R. C. G. Lycett
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Patent number: 10275577Abstract: A digital media content management apparatus and method for securely storing a content file on a computer readable medium and playing the content file from the computer readable medium is disclosed. The content file comprises control information readable by a content player and payload information including content data. The content file is deconstructed into at least one control information portion and at least one payload information portion being undetectable to a content player of a user device. The control information portion and the payload information portion are separately stored, and at least one of the portions is associated with packing data, and the packing data associated with at least one of the portions comprises a reference to the location of the other portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2014Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Now Technologies (IP) LimitedInventors: Christopher Simon Gorman, Nicholas Charles Geary Lycett
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Patent number: 9075960Abstract: A digital media content management apparatus and method for securely storing a content file on a computer readable medium and playing the content file from the computer readable medium is disclosed. The content file comprises control information readable by a content player and payload information including content data. The content file is deconstructed into at least one control information portion and at least one payload information portion being undetectable to a content player of a user device. The control information portion and the payload information portion are separately stored, and at least one of the portions is associated with packing data, and the packing data associated with at least one of the portions comprises a reference to the location of the other portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: Now Technologies (IP) LimitedInventors: Christopher Simon Gorman, Nicholas Charles Geary Lycett
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Patent number: 8930277Abstract: There is disclosed an apparatus configured to provide a chart of content items to a plurality of user devices. The apparatus is configured to enable individual users to temporarily access one or more content items listed in the chart. The apparatus comprises a user device interface configured to communicate with user device applications and a permissions module configured to define user access permissions, including temporary user access permissions, relating to individual ones of the one or more items of content. The apparatus also provides a distribution module configured to implement permissions defined in the permission module in relation to user devices by making available one or more items of content listed in the chart to at least one user device application.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2010Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Now Technologies (IP) LimitedInventors: Marc Samuel Lewis, Christopher Simon Gorman, Nicholas R. C. G. Lycett
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Publication number: 20140283140Abstract: A digital media content management apparatus and method for securely storing a content file on a computer readable medium and playing the content file from the computer readable medium is disclosed. The content file comprises control information readable by a content player and payload information including content data. The content file is deconstructed into at least one control information portion and at least one payload information portion being undetectable to a content player of a user device. The control information portion and the payload information portion are separately stored, and at least one of the portions is associated with packing data, and the packing data associated with at least one of the portions comprises a reference to the location of the other portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: NOW TECHNOLOGIES (IP) LIMITEDInventors: Christopher Simon GORMAN, Nicholas Charles Geary LYCETT
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Publication number: 20130013496Abstract: An apparatus is configured to provide a chart of content items to user devices. The apparatus is configured to enable individual users to temporarily access one or more content items listed in the chart. The apparatus includes a user device interface configured to communicate with user device applications and a permissions module configured to define user access permissions, including temporary user access permissions, relating to individual ones of the one or more items of content. The apparatus also provides a distribution module configured to implement permissions defined in the permission module in relation to user devices by making available one or more items of content listed in the chart to at least one user device application.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: January 10, 2013Applicant: NOW TECHNOLOGIES (IP) LIMITEDInventors: Marc Samuel LEWIS, Christopher Simon GORMAN, Nicholas R.C.G. LYCETT