Patents by Inventor Rory Jacobs

Rory Jacobs 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 apparatus for managing digital content usage rights
    Patent number: 7085741
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for specifying and editing rights associated with a content includes a general model that comprehends rights specification at different levels of the content life cycle. The rights specification includes content association, and the protection of the content is a byproduct of the content and rights association. The general model includes a rights component, a conditions component, a rights offer component, and a rights label component. The rights offers specify the relationship between rights and conditions. The rights labels are collections of the offers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: ContentGuard Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Guillermo Lao, Rory Jacobs, Mai Nguyen, Manuel Ham, Vincent Tieu
  • Method and apparatus for managing digital content usage rights
    Publication number: 20020109707
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for specifying and editing rights associated with a content includes a general model that comprehends rights specification at different levels of the content life cycle. The rights specification includes content association, and the protection of the content is a byproduct of the content and rights association. The general model includes a rights component, a conditions component, a rights offer component, and a rights label component. The rights offers specify the relationship between rights and conditions. The rights labels are collections of the offers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2002
    Publication date: August 15, 2002
    Inventors: Guillermo Lao, Rory Jacobs, Mai Nguyen, Manuel Ham, Vincent Tieu