Patents by Inventor Kurt Smit

Kurt Smit 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 of transmitting digital content of a content supplier to the user of an online content transmission system
    Publication number: 20060200736
    Abstract: A method of transmitting digital contents of a content provider to the user of a content transmission system in a computer communications network in which a data set with a certain digital content desired by a download user is transmitted at least in part from a terminal of an upload user over a computer communications network to the terminal of the download user. For this purpose from terminals of different upload users fragments of the data are transmitted to the terminal of the download user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2005
    Publication date: September 7, 2006
    Inventors: Kurt Smit, Kan-Hung Wan, Matthias Runte