Patents by Inventor Muthukrishnan Paramasivan

Muthukrishnan Paramasivan 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: 8245310
    Abstract: In one or more embodiments, a license associated with a first piece of content can grant rights with respect to a second and/or additional pieces of content. That is, language that is included in a first license can express a policy that is interpreted by a client-side device. This policy can establish rights with respect to additional pieces of content. Accordingly, policy enforcement with respect to licensed content can take place on the client-side device and can establish how different content is to be played relative to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Alexandre V. Grigorovitch, James M. Alkove, Muthukrishnan Paramasivan
  • Publication number: 20080320551
    Abstract: In one or more embodiments, a license associated with a first piece of content can grant rights with respect to a second and/or additional pieces of content. That is, language that is included in a first license can express a policy that is interpreted by a client-side device. This policy can establish rights with respect to additional pieces of content. Accordingly, policy enforcement with respect to licensed content can take place on the client-side device and can establish how different content is to be played relative to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Alexandre V. Grigorovitch, James M. Alkove, Muthukrishnan Paramasivan
  • Publication number: 20080319851
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a content distribution model is provided in which content providers that own content can distribute their content to third-party content distributors who are unaffiliated with the content providers. The content distributors can, in turn, manipulate the content to provide supplemental content, such as advertising and the like, and then distribute the manipulated content to users who are authorized to consume the content. In this way, content providers are relieved of the responsibility of owning or controlling how such other supplemental content is integrated with their protected content. In this manner, manipulation of the content is delegated to third party content distributors. In one or more embodiments, a ticket-based approach is used as a basis to authenticate that third-party distributors are, in fact, authorized to distribute presentations that include the content provider's content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Alexandre V. Grigorovitch, James M. Alkove, Muthukrishnan Paramasivan