Patents by Inventor Russell Robert Lear

Russell Robert Lear 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).

  • SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DOCUMENTS PROTECTED UNDER A DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT SCHEME
    Publication number: 20120072999
    Abstract: A method of processing a document having digital rights management privileges may include receiving a document to be processed according a workflow. The received document may be associated with a license including one or more digital rights management (DRM) privileges. The method may include identifying one or more document production operations associated with the workflow and for each document production operation, determining whether the document production operation violates any of the DRM privileges associated with the document, in response to the document production operation violating one or more of the DRM privileges, assigning a first status to the document production operation, and in response to the document production operation not violating one or more of the DRM privileges, assigning a second status to the document production operation. The method may include automatically causing only document production operations to which the second status is assigned to be performed on the document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nancy Lynn Ishigo, Russell Robert Lear
  • Multi-stage watermarking process and system
    Patent number: 7907749
    Abstract: A multi-stage watermarking system and process that creates a watermark specification which describes how to generate a watermark, generates a template specification which describes how to merge the watermark into a target document, generates the watermark based on the watermark specification, and merges the watermark into the target document based on the template specification to provide a watermarked document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: ContentGuard Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Xin Wang, Steve Atsushi Okamoto, Russell Robert Lear, Nancy Lynn Ishigo
  • MULTI-STAGE WATERMARKING PROCESS AND SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20100002907
    Abstract: A multi-stage watermarking system and process that creates a watermark specification which describes how to generate a watermark, generates a template specification which describes how to merge the watermark into a target document, generates the watermark based on the watermark specification, and merges the watermark into the target document based on the template specification to provide a watermarked document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Applicant: CONTENTGUARD HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Xin WANG, Steve Atsushi Okamoto, Russell Robert Lear, Nancy Lynn Ishigo
  • Multi-stage watermarking process and system
    Patent number: 7609848
    Abstract: A multi-stage watermarking system and process that creates a watermark specification which describes how to generate a watermark, generates a template specification which describes how to merge the watermark into a target document, generates the watermark based on the watermark specification, and merges the watermark into the target document based on the template specification to provide a watermarked document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: ContentGuard Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Xin Wang, Steve Atsushi Okamoto, Russell Robert Lear, Nancy Lynn Ishigo
  • Multi-stage watermarking process and system
    Patent number: 7184571
    Abstract: A multi-stage watermarking system and process that creates a watermark specification which describes how to generate a watermark, generates a template specification which describes how to merge the watermark into a target document, generates the watermark based on the watermark specification, and merges the watermark into the target document based on the template specification to provide a watermarked document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Contentgaurd Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Xin Wang, Steve Atsushi Okamoto, Russell Robert Lear, Nancy Lynn Ishigo
  • Multi-stage watermarking process and system
    Patent number: 6912294
    Abstract: A multi-stage watermarking system and process that creates a watermark specification which describes how to generate a watermark, generates a template specification which describes how to merge the watermark into a target document, generates the watermark based on the watermark specification, and merges the watermark into the target document based on the template specification to provide a watermarked document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2005
    Assignee: ContentGuard Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Xin Wang, Steve Atsushi Okamoto, Russell Robert Lear, Nancy Lynn Ishigo
  • Multi-stage watermarking process and system
    Publication number: 20020126869
    Abstract: A multi-stage watermarking system and process that creates a watermark specification which describes how to generate a watermark, generates a template specification which describes how to merge the watermark into a target document, generates the watermark based on the watermark specification, and merges the watermark into the target document based on the template specification to provide a watermarked document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2000
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Inventors: Xin Wang, Steve Atsushi Okamoto, Russell Robert Lear, Nancy Lynn Ishigo