Patents Examined by Johann Choo
  • Patent number: 9864850
    Abstract: A method of relicensing digital encrypted radio media content transmitted via a network and received by a user electronic device includes receiving a request to relicense an encrypted digital media data file included within digital encrypted radio media content. The encrypted digital media data file is retrieved from the digital encrypted radio media content stored in a memory of the user electronic device. The encrypted digital media data file is decrypted using a radio encryption key to generate an unbound digital media data file. The unbound digital media data file is bound with the user electronic device to generate, a bound encrypted digital media data file. The bound encrypted digital media data file is stored in the memory of the user electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Joshua D. Hug
  • Patent number: 9853959
    Abstract: An electronic personal data locker system is described in which personal data is stored, organized, accessed, and/or maintained, among others activities. In an embodiment, the personal data locker system comprises multiple personal data lockers that each store different types of personal information and/or data of a user. The personal data lockers are established by the system and may be integrated with mobile computing devices. The system may enable the sharing of the gathered data with third parties and/or may enable the user to set preferences for what data is to be shared with various third parties. The system may further provide convenience in providing personal data to third parties via a standard application programming interface (API). The system may also enable the finding and/or calculating of user-related insights based on the gathered data through correlation, aggregation, and/or analysis of the user's personal data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: CONSUMERINFO.COM, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Joseph Kapczynski, Michael John Dean
  • Patent number: 9773226
    Abstract: Disclosed are a system and a method for servicing a customized mobile content that can allow a user to easily download and use various mobile contents regardless of a type of his/her own terminal by: verifying user information by using metadata and a template that are stored in advance from information published by a content publishing institution, generating a mobile content suitable for types of the content publishing institution and a user terminal and transmitting the generated mobile content to the user terminal, downloading the mobile content through a program for the mobile content installed in the user terminal, and displaying the downloaded mobile content to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: LG CNS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Soon Taek Kang
  • Patent number: 9773243
    Abstract: A system may include a point-of-sale system that gathers payment card track data from a payment card and a payment gateway that processes the track data to authorize purchase transactions. Discretionary data in a discretionary field of the track data may be compressed to create space that may be used to accommodate additional security data. The sensitive information may be moved to the discretionary field. The compressed discretionary data and the sensitive information may be encrypted using a structure preserving encryption algorithm and a managed encryption key. The managed encryption key or other additional security data may be added the discretionary field. Track data that has been modified in this way may be conveyed to the payment gateway for processing. The payment gateway may extract the key management data, decrypt the encrypted data, and reconstruct the original track data by decompressing the discretionary data and replacing the sensitive track data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Voltage Security, Inc.
    Inventor: Terence Spies
  • Patent number: 9710812
    Abstract: A method for providing social network payments includes receiving a request to make a payment. The request is associated with a social network payer and a social network payee. It is determined that the social network payer is associated with a first payment provider identifier and an authorization token, and a second payment provider identifier for the social network payee is then retrieved using the authorization token. An instruction to make a payment from the social network payer to the social network payee is then transmitted to a payment service provider. The instruction includes a payment amount, the first payment provider identifier, and the second payment provider identifier. A payment alert is also adapted for a payee social network associated with the social network payee, and the payment alert is send to a social network provider device associated with the payee social network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Anthony Doran, Dennis Warren Koo Tze Mew
  • Patent number: 9563882
    Abstract: A method and a system perform software suite activation. In some embodiments, a method includes installing a software suite having a number of software products onto a computer device. If a copy of one of the number of software products is already activated on the computer device, the installing includes deactivating a license of the copy of the one of the number of software products. Additionally, if a copy of one of the number of software products is already activated on the computer device, the installing includes adopting, by the software suite, the copy of the one of the number of software products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Shyam Sunder Vijay, Xuejun Xu
  • Patent number: 9292842
    Abstract: Systems and methods to provide licensing and licensing management to source code components. The system receives a request from a component developer for a component license. The system sends a public key, a component identifier, and licensing code to the developer and the developer embeds the public key, the component identifier, and the licensing code within the source of the component. The developer sends the embedded component to the system, which publishes the component for sale on a web site. A purchaser of the component can embed the component, API code, and a generated license key into a developed application. The API code is invoked, which activates the component within the application. The application can be sent to the system where it can be published to a web site for sale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Inventor: Anil H. Pereira