Tying a digital license to a user and tying the user to multiple computing devices in a digital rights management (DRM) system

Details for Australian Patent Application No. 2004200453 (hide)

Owner Microsoft Corporation

Inventors Narin, Attila; Bourne, Steve; Manferdelli, John L.; Demello, Marco A.; Krishnaswamy, Vinay; Serbus, Bradley; Malaviarachchi, Rushmi U.

Agent Davies Collison Cave

Pub. Number AU-B-2004200453

Priority 10/375246 27.02.03 US

Filing date 10 February 2004

Wipo publication date 16 September 2004

Acceptance publication date 8 October 2009

International Classifications

G06F 12/14 (2006.01) Accessing, addressing or allocating within memory systems or architectures - Protection against unauthorised use of memory

G06F 1/00 (2006.01) Details not covered by groups and

G06F 21/00 (2006.01) Security arrangements for protecting computers or computer systems against unauthorised activity

G06F 21/24 (2006.01) Security arrangements for protecting computers or computer systems against unauthorised activity

G06Q 50/00 (2006.01) Systems or methods specially adapted for a specific business sector, e.g. health care, utilities, tourism or legal services

G06Q 99/00 (2006.01) Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass

G09C 1/00 (2006.01) Apparatus or methods whereby a given sequence of signs, e.g. an intelligible text, is transformed into an unintelligible sequence of signs by transposing the signs or groups of signs or by replacing them by others according to a predetermined system

H04L 9/08 (2006.01) Arrangements for secret or secure communication - Key distribution

Event Publications

26 February 2004 Complete Application Filed

  Priority application(s): 10/375246 27.02.03 US

4 March 2004 Corrigenda

  Complete Applications Filed - Name Index Under the name Microsoft Corrigenda Corporation, Application No. 2004200453, under INID (54) correct the title to read Tying a digital license to a user and tying the user to multiple computing devices in a digital rights management (DRM) system.

16 September 2004 Application Open to Public Inspection

  Published as AU-B-2004200453

8 October 2009 Application Accepted

  Published as AU-B-2004200453

4 February 2010 Standard Patent Sealed

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