Patents by Inventor Steve Bourne
Steve Bourne 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: 8719171Abstract: A publishing user publishes digital content and issues to itself a corresponding digital publisher license to allow itself to render the published digital content. The publishing user is supplied with a publishing certificate from a digital rights management (DRM) server, where the publishing certificate allows the publishing user to so publish the digital content and to so issue the publisher license.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2010Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Steve Bourne, Blair Brewster Dillaway, Pierre Jacomet, Rushmi U. Malaviarachchi, Kumar B. Parambir, Yevgeniy Eugene Rozenfeld, Chandramouli Venkatesh, Charles F. Rose
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Patent number: 8700535Abstract: A publishing user publishes digital content and issues to itself a corresponding digital publisher license to allow itself to render the published digital content. The publishing user is supplied with a publishing certificate from a digital rights management (DRM) server, where the publishing certificate allows the publishing user to so publish the digital content and to so issue the publisher license.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2008Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Steve Bourne, Blair Brewster Dillaway, Pierre Jacomet, Rushmi U Malviarachchi, Kumar B Parambir, Yevgeniy Eugene Rozenfeld, Chandramouli Venkatesh, Charles F Rose, III
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Patent number: 7891007Abstract: A method for managing rights in digital content includes generating rights data for a piece of digital content and forming a piece of rights managed digital content by associating the rights data with the piece of digital content. The rights data includes parameters that govern the terms on which the content may be licensed, and may include a list of entities to which the content may be licensed, a respective set of one or more rights that each such entity has in the digital content, and any conditions that may be placed on those rights. A method for licensing rights managed digital content includes receiving a license request for a license to use the piece of rights managed digital content, where the license request includes such a signed rights label. The digital signature on the signed rights label is validated to determine whether a trusted entity issued the signed rights label.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2002Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Peter David Waxman, Attila Narin, Scott Cottrille, Vinay Krishnaswamy, Marco A. DeMello, Chandramouli Venkatesh, Frank D. Byrum, Steve Bourne
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Publication number: 20100281253Abstract: A publishing user publishes digital content and issues to itself a corresponding digital publisher license to allow itself to render the published digital content. The publishing user is supplied with a publishing certificate from a digital rights management (DRM) server, where the publishing certificate allows the publishing user to so publish the digital content and to so issue the publisher license.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2010Publication date: November 4, 2010Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Steve Bourne, Blair Brewster Dillaway, Pierre Jacomet, Rushmi U. Malaviarachchi, Kumar B. Parambir, Yevgeniy (Eugene) Rozenfeld, Chandramouli Venkatesh, Charles F. Rose, III
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Patent number: 7577999Abstract: A licensor receives a request from a requestor including an identifier identifying the requestor and rights data associated with digital content, where the rights data lists at least one identifier and rights associated therewith. The licensor thereafter locates the identifier of the requestor in a directory, and locates in the directory based thereon an identifier of each group which the requestor is a member of. Each of the located requestor identifier and each located group identifier is compared to each identifier listed in the rights data to find a match, and a digital license to render the content is issued to the requestor with the rights associated with the matching identifier.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2003Date of Patent: August 18, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Attila Narin, Chandramouli Venkatesh, Frank D. Byrum, Marco A. DeMello, Peter David Waxman, Prashant Malik, Rushmi U. Malaviarachchi, Steve Bourne, Vinay Krishnaswamy, Yevgeniy (Eugene) Rozenfeld
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Publication number: 20080215896Abstract: A publishing user publishes digital content and issues to itself a corresponding digital publisher license to allow itself to render the published digital content. The publishing user is supplied with a publishing certificate from a digital rights management (DRM) server, where the publishing certificate allows the publishing user to so publish the digital content and to so issue the publisher license.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2008Publication date: September 4, 2008Inventors: Steve Bourne, Blair Brewster Dillaway, Pierre Jacomet, Rushmi U. Malaviarachchi, Kumar B. Parambir, Yevgeniy (Eugene) Rozenfeld, Chandramouli Venkatesh, Charles F. Rose
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Publication number: 20080196091Abstract: A Digital Rights Management (DRM) system has a plurality of DRM servers performing DRM functionality and an entering DRM-E server is enrolled into the system by an enrolling DRM-R server such that the entering DRM-E server is to be trusted within the system. The DRM-E server sends an enrollment request to the DRM-R server including a proffering identification and a public key (PU-E). The DRM-R server validates the proffering identification, and, if the request is to be honored, generates a digital enrollment certificate with (PU-E) for the DRM-E server to enroll such DRM-E server into the DRM system. The now-enrolled DRM-E server with the generated enrollment certificate is able to employ same to issue DRM documents within the DRM system.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2007Publication date: August 14, 2008Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Gregory Kostal, Steve Bourne, Vinay Krishnaswamy
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Patent number: 7370212Abstract: A publishing user publishes digital content and issues to itself a corresponding digital publisher license to allow itself to render the published digital content. The publishing user is supplied with a publishing certificate from a digital rights management (DRM) server, where the publishing certificate allows the publishing user to so publish the digital content and to so issue the publisher license.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2003Date of Patent: May 6, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Steve Bourne, Blair Brewster Dillaway, Pierre Jacomet, Rushmi U. Malaviarachchi, Kumar B. Parambir, Yevgeniy (Eugene) Rozenfeld, Chandramouli Venkatesh, Charles F. Rose, III
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Patent number: 7318236Abstract: A first trusted component on a first computing device performs cryptography, evaluation, and enforcement and is tied thereto, and a first user-machine certificate associated with the first computing device is tied to a user. Correspondingly, a second trusted component on a second computing device performs cryptography, evaluation, and enforcement and is tied thereto, and a second user-machine certificate associated with the second computing device is also tied to the user. The first trusted component obtains the content for rendering on the first computing device by way of the first user-machine certificate and the license, and the second trusted component obtains the content for rendering on the second computing device by way of the second user-machine certificate and the same license.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2003Date of Patent: January 8, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Marco A. DeMello, Vinay Krishnaswamy, Rushmi U. Malaviarachchi, John L. Manferdelli, Bradley Serbus, Attila Narin, Steve Bourne
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Patent number: 7308573Abstract: A Digital Rights Management (DRM) system has a plurality of DRM servers performing DRM functionality and an entering DRM-E server is enrolled into the system by an enrolling DRM-R server such that the entering DRM-E server is to be trusted within the system. The DRM-E server sends an enrollment request to the DRM-R server including a proffering identification and a public key (PU-E). The DRM-R server validates the proffering identification, and, if the request is to be honored, generates a digital enrollment certificate with (PU-E) for the DRM-E server to enroll such DRM-E server into the DRM system. The now-enrolled DRM-E server with the generated enrollment certificate is able to employ same to issue DRM documents within the DRM system.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2003Date of Patent: December 11, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Gregory Kostal, Steve Bourne, Vinay Krishnaswamy
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Publication number: 20040172533Abstract: A first trusted component on a first computing device performs cryptography, evaluation, and enforcement and is tied thereto, and a first user-machine certificate associated with the first computing device is tied to a user. Correspondingly, a second trusted component on a second computing device performs cryptography, evaluation, and enforcement and is tied thereto, and a second user-machine certificate associated with the second computing device is also tied to the user. The first trusted component obtains the content for rendering on the first computing device by way of the first user-machine certificate and the license, and the second trusted component obtains the content for rendering on the second computing device by way of the second user-machine certificate and the same license.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2003Publication date: September 2, 2004Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Marco A. DeMello, Vinay Krishnaswamy, Rushmi U. Malaviarachchi, John L. Manferdelli, Bradley Serbus, Attila Narin, Steve Bourne
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Publication number: 20040168073Abstract: A publishing user publishes digital content and issues to itself a corresponding digital publisher license to allow itself to render the published digital content. The publishing user is supplied with a publishing certificate from a digital rights management (DRM) server, where the publishing certificate allows the publishing user to so publish the digital content and to so issue the publisher license.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2003Publication date: August 26, 2004Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Steve Bourne, Blair Brewster Dillaway, Pierre Jacomet, Rushmi U. Malaviarachchi, Kumar B. Parambir, Yevgeniy (Eugene) Rozenfeld, Chandramouli Venkatesh, Charles F. Rose,
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Publication number: 20040168061Abstract: A Digital Rights Management (DRM) system has a plurality of DRM servers performing DRM functionality and an entering DRM-E server is enrolled into the system by an enrolling DRM-R server such that the entering DRM-E server is to be trusted within the system. The DRM-E server sends an enrollment request to the DRM-R server including a proffering identification and a public key (PU-E). The DRM-R server validates the proffering identification, and, if the request is to be honored, generates a digital enrollment certificate with (PU-E) for the DRM-E server to enroll such DRM-E server into the DRM system. The now-enrolled DRM-E server with the generated enrollment certificate is able to employ same to issue DRM documents within the DRM system.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2003Publication date: August 26, 2004Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Gregory Kostal, Steve Bourne, Vinay Krishnaswamy
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Publication number: 20040158709Abstract: A licensor receives a request from a requestor including an identifier identifying the requestor and rights data associated with digital content, where the rights data lists at least one identifier and rights associated therewith. The licensor thereafter locates the identifier of the requestor in a directory, and locates in the directory based thereon an identifier of each group which the requestor is a member of. Each of the located requestor identifier and each located group identifier is compared to each identifier listed in the rights data to find a match, and a digital license to render the content is issued to the requestor with the rights associated with the matching identifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2003Publication date: August 12, 2004Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Attila Narin, Chandramouli Venkatesh, Frank D. Byrum, Marco A. DeMello, Peter David Waxman, Prashant Malik, Rushmi U. Malaviarachchi, Steve Bourne, Vinay Krishnaswamy, Yevgeniy (Eugene) Rozenfeld
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Publication number: 20040158731Abstract: A licensor receives a request from the requestor, where the request includes rights data associated with digital content, and where the rights data lists at least one identifier and a set of rights associated therewith. The licensor selects the identifier and the set of rights associated therewith, where such rights are expected to be set forth in a corresponding digital license, and also selects based on the identifier an alternate set of rights. The alternate set of rights are substituted for the set of rights from the rights data, and the license is issued to the requestor with the alternate set of rights, whereby the alternate set of rights in the issued license sets forth terms and conditions that the requestor must adhere to in connection with rendering the corresponding content.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2003Publication date: August 12, 2004Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Attila Narin, Chandramouli Venkatesh, Frank D. Byrum, Marco A. DeMello, Peter David Waxman, Prashant Malik, Rushmi U. Malaviarachchi, Steve Bourne, Vinay Krishnaswamy, Yevgeniy (Eugene) Rozenfeld
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Publication number: 20040003269Abstract: A method for managing rights in digital content includes generating rights data for a piece of digital content and forming a piece of rights managed digital content by associating the rights data with the piece of digital content. The rights data includes parameters that govern the terms on which the content may be licensed, and may include a list of entities to which the content may be licensed, a respective set of one or more rights that each such entity has in the digital content, and any conditions that may be placed on those rights. A method for licensing rights managed digital content includes receiving a license request for a license to use the piece of rights managed digital content, where the license request includes such a signed rights label. The digital signature on the signed rights label is validated to determine whether a trusted entity issued the signed rights label.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2002Publication date: January 1, 2004Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Peter David Waxman, Attila Narin, Scott Cottrille, Vinay Krishnaswamy, Marco A. DeMello, Chandramouli Venkatesh, Frank D. Byrum, Steve Bourne