Patents by Inventor Thomas Michael DeMartini

Thomas Michael DeMartini 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).

  • Publication number: 20140304177
    Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for a digital content player having a DRM agent to perform rights management operations on a digital content package, including loading rights management instructions to be executed by the digital content player, the rights management instructions being associated with the digital content package, executing the rights management instructions on the digital content player, and loading supporting licenses associated with the digital content package for processing by the DRM agent. The DRM agent deciding whether to permit the rights management operations requested by the rights management instructions. Further exemplary embodiments include systems, methods and computer program products for associating usage rights with digital content packages, managing of digital rights tokens, managing of digital content packages having predetermined broadcast dates, preserving of usage rights when content is transferred between DRM environments, and distributing content packages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: ContentGuard Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Michael DeMartini, Michael Charles Raley, Xin Wang, Joseph Zhung-Yee Fung, Mai Nguyen, Guillermo Lao, Rajan Samtani, Eddie Jen-Shien Chen, Kerry Philip Miller