Patents by Inventor Bart Richard Clifone

Bart Richard Clifone 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).

  • Digital content distribution and subscription system
    Patent number: 9886566
    Abstract: Digital content distribution systems and methods are provided for distributing for digital data files, such as digital audio and video data files. In accordance with one implementation, a token-based authentication system is provided that does not require knowledge of the individual user requesting the download of digital content data or real-time access to user account information. Instead, the token-based authentication system embeds the authentication information, or token, in the download request information itself. In this way, the download or content server authenticates the download request using the token contained in the download request information and therefore does not require any additional information to carry out this authentication, such as access to user account information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Oath Inc.
    Inventors: Depeng Bi, Stephen Christopher Gladwin, Troy Steven Denkinger, Timothy Scott Franklin, Bart Richard Clifone, Anne Marie Pewterbaugh, Jeffrey Jonathan Spurgat