Patents by Inventor Ivo Jan Willem Gerard Dijkhuis

Ivo Jan Willem Gerard Dijkhuis 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 AND DEVICE FOR HANDLING DIGITAL LICENSES
    Publication number: 20090077667
    Abstract: A device and a corresponding method for handling digital licenses, each digital license being associated with one or more content items, said device comprising a processing unit adapted to: check whether a number of licenses, being associated with a single content item or copies thereof, are designated as a stray license, where the number of licenses are present on at least one device of a group of devices, and merge the license(s) designated as stray licenses into a merged single license if the number of stray licenses is larger than 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2005
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Applicant: Koninklijke Philips Electronics, N.V.
    Inventors: Bartholomeus Johannes Van Rijnsoever, Ivo Jan Willem Gerard Dijkhuis, Cornelis Edmond Heijmans, Rob Kuppens