Patents by Inventor Edward Hackbarth

Edward Hackbarth 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: 7650418
    Abstract: A system and method for managing the use and access of digital data objects are provided. Control rights associated with a digital data object activate an external control object and an intercept application to intercept and monitor communications between a hosting application and a document server application associated with the creation of the digital data object. These intercepting and monitoring functions are performed without affecting or changing the hosting application or the document server application. The external control object activates an intercept application which mimics the functions of the document server application and performs user actions on the digital data object as authorized by the external control object according to the control rights associated with the digital object. By intercepting and monitoring user actions on a digital data object, the invention can control access and use of the digital data object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Macrovision Corporation
    Inventors: Greg Benson, Edward Hackbarth
  • Publication number: 20050027860
    Abstract: A system and method for managing the use and access of digital data objects are provided. Control rights associated with a digital data object activate an external control object and an intercept application to intercept and monitor communications between a hosting application and a document server application associated with the creation of the digital data object. These intercepting and monitoring functions are performed without affecting or changing the hosting application or the document server application. The external control object activates an intercept application which mimics the functions of the document server application and performs user actions on the digital data object as authorized by the external control object according to the control rights associated with the digital object. By intercepting and monitoring user actions on a digital data object, the invention can control access and use of the digital data object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2004
    Publication date: February 3, 2005
    Inventors: Greg Benson, Edward Hackbarth
  • Patent number: 6813640
    Abstract: A system and method for managing the use and access of digital data objects. According to the invention, control rights associated with a digital data object activate an external control object and an intercept application to intercept and monitor communications between a hosting application and a document server application associated with the creation of the digital data object. These intercepting and monitoring functions are performed without affecting or changing the hosting application or the document server application. The external control object activates an intercept application which mimics the functions of the document server application and performs user actions on the digital data object as authorized by the external control object according to the control rights associated with the digital object. By intercepting and monitoring user actions on a digital data object, the invention can control access and use of the digital data object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: Macrovision Corporation
    Inventors: Greg Benson, Edward Hackbarth
  • Patent number: 4864539
    Abstract: This invention relates generally to Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) cells and more particularly, relates to a SRAM cell wherein soft-error due to .alpha.-particle radiation is reduced by permitting the potential at the common-emitter node of the cross-coupled transistors of the memory cell to swing freely. Still more particularly, it relates to a SRAM cell wherein the common-emitter node of the cell is decoupled from a heavily capacitively loaded word line with its common constant current source by means of a constant current source or current mirror disposed in each cell between the common-emitter node and the word line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1989
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ching-Te K. Chuang, Edward Hackbarth, Denny D. Tang