Patents by Inventor Joshua Michael Jaffe

Joshua Michael Jaffe 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: 8131646
    Abstract: Technologies are disclosed to transfer responsibility and control over security from player makers to content authors by enabling integration of security logic and content. An exemplary optical disc carries an encrypted digital video title combined with data processing operations that implement the title's security policies and decryption processes. Player devices include a processing environment (e.g., a real-time virtual machine), which plays content by interpreting its processing operations. Players also provide procedure calls to enable content code to load data from media, perform network communications, determine playback environment configurations, access secure nonvolatile storage, submit data to CODECs for output, and/or perform cryptographic operations. Content can insert forensic watermarks in decoded output for tracing pirate copies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Rovi Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Carl Kocher, Joshua Michael Jaffe, Benjamin Che-Ming Jun, Carter Cyrus Laren, Peter Kelley Pearson, Nathaniel James Lawson
  • Patent number: 7996913
    Abstract: Technologies are disclosed to transfer responsibility and control over security from player makers to content authors by enabling integration of security logic and content. An exemplary optical disc carries an encrypted digital video title combined with data processing operations that implement the title's security policies and decryption processes. Player devices include a processing environment (e.g., a real-time virtual machine), which plays content by interpreting its processing operations. Players also provide procedure calls to enable content code to load data from media, perform network communications, determine playback environment configurations, access secure nonvolatile storage, submit data to CODECs for output, and/or perform cryptographic operations. Content can insert forensic watermarks in decoded output for tracing pirate copies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Rovi Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Carl Kocher, Joshua Michael Jaffe, Benjamin Che-Ming Jun, Carter Cyrus Laren, Peter Kelley Pearson, Nathaniel James Lawson
  • Patent number: 7984511
    Abstract: Technologies are disclosed to transfer responsibility and control over security from player makers to content authors by enabling integration of security logic and content. An exemplary optical disc carries an encrypted digital video title combined with data processing operations that implement the title's security policies and decryption processes. Player devices include a processing environment (e.g., a real-time virtual machine), which plays content by interpreting its processing operations. Players also provide procedure calls to enable content code to load data from media, perform network communications, determine playback environment configurations, access secure nonvolatile storage, submit data to CODECs for output, and/or perform cryptographic operations. Content can insert forensic watermarks in decoded output for tracing pirate copies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Rovi Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Carl Kocher, Joshua Michael Jaffe, Benjamin Che-Ming Jun, Carter Cyrus Laren, Peter Kelley Pearson, Nathaniel James Lawson
  • Patent number: 7778420
    Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, digital content is mastered as a combination of encrypted data and data processing operations that enable use in approved playback environments. Player devices having a processing environment compatible with the content's data processing operations are able to decrypt and play the content. Players can also provide content with basic functions, such as loading data from media, performing network communications, determining playback environment configuration, controlling decryption/playback, and/or performing cryptographic operations using the player's keys. These functions allow the content to implement and enforce its own security policies. If pirates compromise individual players or content titles, new content can be mastered with new security features that block the old attacks. A selective decryption capability can also be provided, enabling on-the-fly watermark insertion so that attacks can be traced back to a particular player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Rovi Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Carl Kocher, Joshua Michael Jaffe, Benjamin Che-Ming Jun, Matthew Thomas Carter, Peter Kelley Pearson
  • Patent number: 7760876
    Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, digital content is mastered as a combination of encrypted data and data processing operations that enable use in approved playback environments. Player devices having a processing environment compatible with the content's data processing operations are able to decrypt and play the content. Players can also provide content with basic functions, such as loading data from media, performing network communications, determining playback environment configuration, controlling decryption/playback, and/or performing cryptographic operations using the player's keys. These functions allow the content to implement and enforce its own security policies. If pirates compromise individual players or content titles, new content can be mastered with new security features that block the old attacks. A selective decryption capability can also be provided, enabling on-the-fly watermark insertion so that attacks can be traced back to a particular player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Rovi Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Carl Kocher, Joshua Michael Jaffe, Benjamin Che-Ming Jun, Matthew Thomas Carter, Peter Kelley Pearson
  • Patent number: 7756272
    Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, digital content is mastered as a combination of encrypted data and data processing operations that enable use in approved playback environments. Player devices having a processing environment compatible with the content's data processing operations are able to decrypt and play the content. Players can also provide content with basic functions, such as loading data from media, performing network communications, determining playback environment configuration, controlling decryption/playback, and/or performing cryptographic operations using the player's keys. These functions allow the content to implement and enforce its own security policies. If pirates compromise individual players or content titles, new content can be mastered with new security features that block the old attacks. A selective decryption capability can also be provided, enabling on-the-fly watermark insertion so that attacks can be traced back to a particular player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Rovi Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Carl Kocher, Joshua Michael Jaffe, Benjamin Che-Ming Jun, Matthew Thomas Carter, Peter Kelley Pearson