Patents by Inventor Scott J. Fierstein
Scott J. Fierstein 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).
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Patent number: 10229248Abstract: Supporting a plurality of content protection systems in a single container file. The protection systems share an encryption method which is accessible from a sample encryption box in the file. Each of the protection systems stores, in a protection system header box, information for decrypting the content in accordance with the corresponding protection system. In some embodiments, separate protection system header boxes in the file correspond to each of the protection systems. By using the common encryption method and sharing encryption expressions across the protection systems, the multiple content protection systems are supported in the file without creating additional copies of the content. In some embodiments, aspects of the disclosure extend the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) base media file format to support multiple digital rights management (DRM) systems in the single container file.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2014Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Quintin Swayne Burns, Robert Kilroy Hughes, Jr., John Carl Simmons, Scott J. Fierstein
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Patent number: 10178141Abstract: A personal media player (PMP) uses a digital media processing system—comprising a video rendering subsystem, a music rendering subsystem, and a picture rendering subsystem—to produce moving-video (video), audio (music), still-graphics (picture), and other output rendered from media files ported to the PMP from another source. The PMP further comprises a user interface system, a display unit system, a power source system, and a data port system utilizing Universal Plug and Play functionality, all of which are coupled directly or indirectly to the digital media processing system. The physical components constituting the aforementioned systems and subsystems are then encased in a portable housing unit suitable for hand-held use and ready portability.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2015Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: John C. Calhoon, Scott J. Fierstein, Scott Manchester
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Publication number: 20170124295Abstract: Supporting a plurality of content protection systems in a single container file. The protection systems share an encryption method which is accessible from a sample encryption box in the file. Each of the protection systems stores, in a protection system header box, information for decrypting the content in accordance with the corresponding protection system. In some embodiments, separate protection system header boxes in the file correspond to each of the protection systems. By using the common encryption method and sharing encryption expressions across the protection systems, the multiple content protection systems are supported in the file without creating additional copies of the content. In some embodiments, aspects of the disclosure extend the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) base media file format to support multiple digital rights management (DRM) systems in the single container file.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2014Publication date: May 4, 2017Inventors: Quintin Swayne Burns, Robert Kilroy Hughes, JR., John Carl Simmons, Scott J. Fierstein
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Patent number: 9479553Abstract: A personal media player (PMP) uses a digital media processing system—comprising a video rendering subsystem, a music rendering subsystem, and a picture rendering subsystem—to produce moving-video (video), audio (music), still-graphics (picture), and other output rendered from media files ported to the PMP from another source. The PMP further comprises a user interface system, a display unit system, a power source system, and a data port system utilizing Universal Plug and Play functionality, all of which are coupled directly or indirectly to the digital media processing system. The physical components constituting the aforementioned systems and subsystems are then encased in a portable housing unit suitable for hand-held use and ready portability.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2013Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: John C. Calhoon, Scott J. Fierstein, Scott Manchester
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Publication number: 20160150179Abstract: A personal media player (PMP) uses a digital media processing system—comprising a video rendering subsystem, a music rendering subsystem, and a picture rendering subsystem—to produce moving-video (video), audio (music), still-graphics (picture), and other output rendered from media files ported to the PMP from another source. The PMP further comprises a user interface system, a display unit system, a power source system, and a data port system utilizing Universal Plug and Play functionality, all of which are coupled directly or indirectly to the digital media processing system. The physical components constituting the aforementioned systems and subsystems are then encased in a portable housing unit suitable for hand-held use and ready portability.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2015Publication date: May 26, 2016Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: John C. Calhoon, Scott J. Fierstein, Scott Manchester
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Publication number: 20150193599Abstract: Supporting a plurality of content protection systems in a single container file. The protection systems share an encryption method which is accessible from a sample encryption box in the file. Each of the protection systems stores, in a protection system header box, information for decrypting the content in accordance with the corresponding protection system. In some embodiments, separate protection system header boxes in the file correspond to each of the protection systems. By using the common encryption method and sharing encryption expressions across the protection systems, the multiple content protection systems are supported in the file without creating additional copies of the content. In some embodiments, aspects of the disclosure extend the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) base media file format to support multiple digital rights management (DRM) systems in the single container file.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2014Publication date: July 9, 2015Inventors: Quintin Swayne Burns, Robert Kilroy Hughes, JR., John Carl Simmons, Scott J. Fierstein
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Patent number: 8904191Abstract: Supporting a plurality of content protection systems in a single container file. The protection systems share an encryption method which is accessible from a sample encryption box in the file. Each of the protection systems stores, in a protection system header box, information for decrypting the content in accordance with the corresponding protection system. In some embodiments, separate protection system header boxes in the file correspond to each of the protection systems. By using the common encryption method and sharing encryption expressions across the protection systems, the multiple content protection systems are supported in the file without creating additional copies of the content. In some embodiments, aspects of the disclosure extend the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) base media file format to support multiple digital rights management (DRM) systems in the single container file.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2009Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Quintin Swayne Burns, Robert Kilroy Hughes, Jr., John Carl Simmons, Scott J. Fierstein
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Publication number: 20130254351Abstract: A personal media player (PMP) uses a digital media processing system—comprising a video rendering subsystem, a music rendering subsystem, and a picture rendering subsystem—to produce moving-video (video), audio (music), still-graphics (picture), and other output rendered from media files ported to the PMP from another source. The PMP further comprises a user interface system, a display unit system, a power source system, and a data port system utilizing Universal Plug and Play functionality, all of which are coupled directly or indirectly to the digital media processing system. The physical components constituting the aforementioned systems and subsystems are then encased in a portable housing unit suitable for hand-held use and ready portability.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2013Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: John C. Calhoon, Scott J. Fierstein, Scott Manchester
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Patent number: 8503861Abstract: A personal media player (PMP) uses a digital media processing system—comprising a video rendering subsystem, a music rendering subsystem, and a picture rendering subsystem—to produce moving-video (video), audio (music), still-graphics (picture), and other output rendered from media files ported to the PMP from another source. The PMP further comprises a user interface system, a display unit system, a power source system, and a data port system utilizing Universal Plug and Play functionality, all of which are coupled directly or indirectly to the digital media processing system. The physical components constituting the aforementioned systems and subsystems are then encased in a portable housing unit suitable for hand-held use and ready portability.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2008Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: John C. Calhoon, Scott J. Fierstein, Scott Manchester
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Publication number: 20100332240Abstract: Decentralized storage of electronic receipts for sharing transaction histories. Merchants generate and digitally sign the electronic receipts for transactions involving electronic content products. The electronic receipts for a user are stored by the user. The user later presents other entities with the electronic receipt as proof of the transaction. The merchants also maintain “graveyard lists,” or lists of cancelled transactions that are used by other merchants to determine whether a particular transaction is still valid. For example, if the electronic content product associated with the particular transaction has been returned or exchanged, the particular transaction is added to the list of cancelled transactions.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2009Publication date: December 30, 2010Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Henry Hooper Somuah, Scott J. Fierstein, Robert Kilroy Hughes, JR.
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Patent number: 7747864Abstract: A “managed copy” capability is provided that is both sanctioned and supervised by a service provider so that multimedia content distributed on optical media such as DVD can be copied and used by a client in a controlled manner. In an illustrative example, a content provider generates a fingerprint using heuristics and/or other data that uniquely identifies a multimedia release, like a feature film, as being authorized for copying according to defined usage rules. A managed copy service authorizes the client to make a copy of a source DVD if that source is found to match a stored fingerprint. An identification response, which may include encoding parameters and usage rules, provides confirmation to the client that content on the source DVD is authorized to be copied. The client copies content from the source to another medium in compliance with the identification response.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2006Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignee: Mircosoft CorporationInventors: Scott J. Fierstein, James M. Alkove
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Publication number: 20080317441Abstract: A personal media player (PMP) uses a digital media processing system—comprising a video rendering subsystem, a music rendering subsystem, and a picture rendering subsystem—to produce moving-video (video), audio (music), still-graphics (picture), and other output rendered from media files ported to the PMP from another source. The PMP further comprises a user interface system, a display unit system, a power source system, and a data port system utilizing Universal Plug and Play functionality, all of which are coupled directly or indirectly to the digital media processing system. The physical components constituting the aforementioned systems and subsystems are then encased in a portable housing unit suitable for hand-held use and ready portability.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2008Publication date: December 25, 2008Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: John C. Calhoon, Scott J. Fierstein, Scott Manchester
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Patent number: 7426329Abstract: A personal media player (PMP) uses a digital media processing system—comprising a video rendering subsystem, a music rendering subsystem, and a picture rendering subsystem—to produce moving-video (video), audio (music), still-graphics (picture), and other output rendered from media files ported to the PMP from another source. The PMP further comprises a user interface system, a display unit system, a power source system, and a data port system utilizing Universal Plug and Play functionality, all of which are coupled directly or indirectly to the digital media processing system. The physical components constituting the aforementioned systems and subsystems are then encased in a portable housing unit suitable for hand-held use and ready portability.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2003Date of Patent: September 16, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: John C. Calhoon, Scott J. Fierstein, Scott Manchester
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Patent number: 7376976Abstract: Technology for protecting a digital content including a first content protection system capable of decrypting the digital content, the digital content including an inclusion list; a linkable library providing access for an application to the functionality of the first content protection system, the application including a second content protection system; and a means for evaluating the second content protection system to determine if the second content protection system is on the inclusion list.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2006Date of Patent: May 20, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Scott J. Fierstein, Brian P. Evans, Geoffrey T. Dunbar, James M. Alkove, Daniel Rosenstein, Matthew Howard, Ming Ma, Alexandre Vicktorovich Grigorovitch
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Publication number: 20080005802Abstract: A “managed copy” capability is provided that is both sanctioned and supervised by a service provider so that multimedia content distributed on optical media such as DVD can be copied and used by a client in a controlled manner. In an illustrative example, a content provider generates a fingerprint using heuristics and/or other data that uniquely identifies a multimedia release, like a feature film, as being authorized for copying according to defined usage rules. A managed copy service authorizes the client to make a copy of a source DVD if that source is found to match a stored fingerprint. An identification response, which may include encoding parameters and usage rules, provides confirmation to the client that content on the source DVD is authorized to be copied. The client copies content from the source to another medium in compliance with the identification response.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2006Publication date: January 3, 2008Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Scott J. Fierstein, James M. Alkove
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Publication number: 20040175098Abstract: A personal media player (PMP) uses a digital media processing system—comprising a video rendering subsystem, a music rendering subsystem, and a picture rendering subsystem—to produce moving-video (video), audio (music), still-graphics (picture), and other output rendered from media files ported to the PMP from another source. The PMP further comprises a user interface system, a display unit system, a power source system, and a data port system utilizing Universal Plug and Play functionality, all of which are coupled directly or indirectly to the digital media processing system. The physical components constituting the aforementioned systems and subsystems are then encased in a portable housing unit suitable for hand-held use and ready portability.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2003Publication date: September 9, 2004Inventors: John C. Calhoon, Scott J. Fierstein, Scott Manchester