Patents by Inventor Benjamin Brooks Cutter

Benjamin Brooks Cutter 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).

  • Patent number: 9336359
    Abstract: A method of generating a device certificate. A method of generating a device certificate comprising, constructing a device certificate challenge at a device, sending information to a device certificate individualization server in response to the device certificate challenge, validating the device certificate challenge by the device certificate individualization server, and validating the device certificate response by the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Amit Jain, Clifford Paul Storm, Benjamin Brooks Cutter, Jr., Brian Patrick Evans
  • Patent number: 8438114
    Abstract: A digital license includes an identification of a removal service that can authorize removing such license. A client selects the license to be removed and the service, constructs a challenge including therein a challenge license identification block (LIB) identifying the license to be removed, and sends the challenge to the service. The service receives the challenge, stores at least a portion of the challenge in a database, constructs a response corresponding to the challenge and including therein a response LIB identifying the license to be removed and an identification of the service, and sends the response to the client. The client receives the response, employs the response LIB from the response to identify the license to be removed, and removes the identified license upon confirming that the identification of the service in the identified license matches the identification of the service in the response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin Brooks Cutter, Brian P. Evans, Clifford P. Strom, Vikas Khandelwal
  • Patent number: 8347078
    Abstract: A method of generating a device certificate. A method of generating a device certificate comprising, constructing a device certificate challenge at a device, sending information to a device certificate individualization server in response to the device certificate challenge, validating the device certificate challenge by the device certificate individualization server, and validating the device certificate response by the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Amit Jain, Clifford Paul Storm, Benjamin Brooks Cutter, Jr., Brian Patrick Evans
  • Publication number: 20120137127
    Abstract: A method of generating a device certificate. A method of generating a device certificate comprising, constructing a device certificate challenge at a device, sending information to a device certificate individualization server in response to the device certificate challenge, validating the device certificate challenge by the device certificate individualization server, and validating the device certificate response by the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Amit Jain, Clifford Paul Storm, Benjamin Brooks Cutter, JR., Brian Patrick Evans
  • Publication number: 20120036562
    Abstract: A digital license includes an identification of a removal service that can authorize removing such license. A client selects the license to be removed and the service, constructs a challenge including therein a challenge license identification block (LIB) identifying the license to be removed, and sends the challenge to the service. The service receives the challenge, stores at least a portion of the challenge in a database, constructs a response corresponding to the challenge and including therein a response LIB identifying the license to be removed and an identification of the service, and sends the response to the client. The client receives the response, employs the response LIB from the response to identify the license to be removed, and removes the identified license upon confirming that the identification of the service in the identified license matches the identification of the service in the response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2011
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin Brooks Cutter, Brian P. Evans, Clifford P. Strom, Vikas Khandelwal
  • Patent number: 8060923
    Abstract: A digital license includes an identification of a removal service that can authorize removing such license. A client selects the license to be removed and the service, constructs a challenge including therein a challenge license identification block (LIB) identifying the license to be removed, and sends the challenge to the service. The service receives the challenge, stores at least a portion of the challenge in a database, constructs a response corresponding to the challenge and including therein a response LIB identifying the license to be removed and an identification of the service, and sends the response to the client. The client receives the response, employs the response LIB from the response to identify the license to be removed, and removes the identified license upon confirming that the identification of the service in the identified license matches the identification of the service in the response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin Brooks Cutter, Brian P. Evans, Clifford P. Strom, Vikas Khandelwal
  • Patent number: 7620809
    Abstract: A method of registering network devices in a digital rights management system (DRMS) includes receiving a digital certificate transmitted by the network device requesting registration and verifying the validity of the certificate. The DRMS may then send cryptographic information to the applying network device. The network device may be authorized for registration via a user interface to the DRMS. The DRMS may conduct a proximity test to determine of the network device is proximate to the DRMS. If the certificate is validated, authorization is received, and the proximity test indicates that the network device is proximate to the DRMS, the network device may be registered. A registered network device is then authorized to play protected digital content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Richard D. Prologo, Eduardo P. Oliveira, Clifford P. Strom, Brian P. Evans, Benjamin Brooks Cutter, Anand D. Paka
  • Patent number: 7558463
    Abstract: Described herein are one or more implementations for transforming (e.g., transcoding) DRM-protected digital media content while retaining associated DRM-information (e.g., a user license its related information).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Amit Jain, Benjamin Brooks Cutter, Brian P. Evans, Clifford P. Strom
  • Patent number: 7441121
    Abstract: Generating a device certificate. A method of generating a device certificate comprising forming a template that will generate a device certificate upon the occurrence of a triggering event, filling in an authorization root certificate section of the template; filling in an authorization certificate section of the template, filling in a group certificate section of the template, and forming a device certificate section of the template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin Brooks Cutter, Jr., Clifford Paul Strom, Brian Patrick Evans, Amit Jain, Michael Yui-Kwan Siu
  • Publication number: 20080256646
    Abstract: Techniques enable seamless movement and consumption of licensed digital content amongst multiple devices. In some embodiments, these techniques allow establishment of a domain capable of having multiple member devices. Each member device of the domain typically comprises a content-consuming device such as a personal computer, a portable media player, or the like. These techniques enable a license associated with digital content to bind to a domain rather than an individual device. As such, each member device of the domain may contain a domain identity and, with the identity, may consume the content with use of the license and in accordance with policy described in the license. These tools may also enable a member device to join multiple domains and to contain an identification of each of these multiple domains.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Clifford P. Strom, Patrik Schnell, Benjamin Brooks Cutter, Quintin S. Burns, Milan M. Gada, Kevin Lau, Adrian J. Oney, Kedarnath A. Dubhashi
  • Patent number: 7266569
    Abstract: Metered data is accumulated and is indexed within a metering database of a client according to a metering ID (MID) and a content-associated ID (KID). The client selects a particular MID and metered data in the metering database having the selected MID, and constructs a challenge based on the selected metered data and sends same to a metering service. The metering service obtains the metered data from the challenge, stores same, and constructs a response. The client receives the response including a list of KIDs of the selected metered data in the challenge, and processes the list of KIDs by, for each KID in the list, deleting the metered data from the metering database having the selected MID and the KID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin Brooks Cutter, Brian P. Evans, Clifford P. Strom, Michael Jay Parks