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US 2006/0265336 A1Published application
Automated system for management of licensed digital assets
AssigneeGraphOn Corporation
InventorRalph Wesinger
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Abstract
A method of distributing licensed digital assets across a public computer network is disclosed. The method comprises generating a digital asset identifier, the digital asset identifier identifying a digital asset and a source for the digital asset; inserting the digital asset identifier in the digital asset; and communicating the digital asset and the digital asset identifier to a user across the public computer network.
Claims23
A method for forming a digital asset identifier for a digital asset comprising:
- receiving a request from a user to download a digital asset from a server over an IP-compliant network;
- collecting information through a user interface regarding the user and the digital asset desired to be downloaded;
- automatically collecting information regarding the user's machine;
- forming a digital asset identifier including the collected user and machine information;
- associating the digital asset identifier with the digital asset;
- and
- storing said digital asset identifier in a database associated with the server.
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An apparatus for forming a digital asset identifier for a digital asset comprising:
- means for receiving a request from a user to download a digital asset from a server over an IP-compliant network;
- means for collecting information through a user interface regarding the user and the digital asset desired to be downloaded;
- means for automatically collecting information regarding the user's machine;
- means for forming a digital asset identifier including the collected user and machine information;
- means for associating the digital asset identifier with the digital asset;
- and
- means for storing said digital asset identifier in a database associated with the server.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.