Patents by Inventor Shabbir Mukadam

Shabbir Mukadam 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).

  • Wireless-access-provider intermediation to facilliate digital rights management for third party hosted content
    Patent number: 7512973
    Abstract: A method and system for wireless access provider management of digital rights. A wireless carrier receives a content request transmitted from a given wireless client station. The carrier determines by reference to digital rights management data that the requested content is premium content and then determines if the requesting party has the right to obtain the content. If the party does not have the right to obtain the content, the wireless carrier may engage in a payment collection process, to collect the party's payment for the content. Upon determination that the requesting party has the right to obtain the content, the wireless carrier inserts an access-token into the content request and sends the content request, with the access-token, to the content provider. The content provider can then rely on the access-token as proof that the requesting party has the right to obtain the requested content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Wone-Hoe Chan, Shabbir Mukadam, Pujan Roka