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US 6,785,885 B2Granted
Mechanism for automatically securing licensing for unlicenced codec
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsDavid J. Norris, Ramanan V. Ganesan
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Abstract
A method for licensing codecs in accordance with the invention includes initiating a call from a first endpoint, the first endpoint identifying a preferred codec, receiving the call at a second endpoint wherein a licensed copy of the preferred codec is not included, and generating a codec license request from the second endpoint to the first endpoint and/or at least one third party codec provider.
Claims28
A method comprising:
- receiving, at a first computing system, a call between the first computing system and a second computing system, wherein the first computing system contains an unlicensed codec;
- in conjunction with receiving the call, receiving a codec identifier from the second computing system at the first computing system, wherein the codec identifier identifies the unlicensed codec as desired for use during the call;
- in response to receiving the codec identifier at the first computing system, transmitting a request for a license to use the unlicensed codec;
- after transmitting the request for a license to use the unlicensed codec, receiving a response that grants the license;
- and
- after receiving the response that grants the license, automatically using the formerly unlicensed codec in the call.
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A computing system comprising:
- a storage medium;
- a processor communicatively coupled to the storage medium;
- and
- computer instructions encoded in the storage medium, wherein the computer instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:
- receiving a call from another computing system;
- in conjunction with receiving the call, receiving a codec identifier from the other computing system, wherein the codec identifier identifies a codec as desired for use during the call;
- in response to receiving the codec identifier, determining whether the computing system contains an unlicensed copy of the codec;
- if the computing system contains an unlicensed copy of the codec, transmitting a request for a license to use the codec;
- after transmitting the request for a license to use the codec, receiving a response that grants the license;
- and
- after receiving the response that grants the license, automatically using the formerly unlicensed copy of the codec in the call.
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A program product comprising:
- a machine accessible medium;
- and
- instructions encoded in the machine accessible medium, wherein the instructions, when executed by a processing system, cause the processing system to perform operations comprising:
- receiving a call from another processing system;
- in conjunction with receiving the call, receiving a codec identifier from the other processing system, wherein the codec identifier identifies a codec as desired for use during the call;
- in response to receiving the codec identifier, automatically determining whether the processing system contains an unlicensed copy of the codec;
- if the processing system contains an unlicensed copy of the codec, transmitting a request for a license to use the codec;
- after transmitting the request for a license to use the codec, receiving a response that grants the license;
- and
- after receiving the response that grants the license, automatically using the formerly unlicensed copy of the codec in the call.
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A method comprising:
- initiating a call to a second computing system from a first computing system;
- transmitting a codec identifier from the first computing system to the second computing system, wherein the codec identifier identifies a codec as desired for use during the call;
- after transmitting the codec identifier to the second computing system, receiving a response from the second computing system, wherein the response indicates that the second computing system contains an unlicensed copy of the codec;
- after receiving the response, automatically transmitting a license grant for the codec from the first computing system to the second computing system;
- and
- after transmitting the license grant to the second computing system, using the codec during the call.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.