Patents by Inventor Carl Joseph Sobeski

Carl Joseph Sobeski 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).

  • METHOD FOR SHARING A MEDIA COLLECTION IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT
    Publication number: 20150156201
    Abstract: A method of acquiring rights to content to be burned to a CD, comprising defining a first content set; defining a second content set comprised of content selected from the first content set whose content attributes match those selected by a user; identifying as a third content set that content in the second content set for which DRM rights sufficient to permit the content to be burned to CD are not currently possessed; allowing a user to authorize obtaining rights for members of the second content set for which rights permitting the content to be burned to CD are not currently possessed; obtaining rights which allow at least a subset of the third content set to be burned to CD; and, allowing the content defined in the second content set and for which appropriate rights have been obtained to be burned to CD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2013
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew David New, Jonathan Cooper Ochenas, Carl Joseph Sobeski
  • System and method for improved portable media file retention
    Patent number: 8626670
    Abstract: A method of acquiring rights to content to be burned to a CD, comprising defining a first content set; defining a second content set comprised of content selected from the first content set whose content attributes match those selected by a user; identifying as a third content set that content in the second content set for which DRM rights sufficient to permit the content to be burned to CD are not currently possessed; allowing a user to authorize obtaining rights for members of the second content set for which rights permitting the content to be burned to CD are not currently possessed; obtaining rights which allow at least a subset of the third content set to be burned to CD; and, allowing the content defined in the second content set and for which appropriate rights have been obtained to be burned to CD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew David New, Jonathan Cooper Ochenas, Carl Joseph Sobeski