Sca Ipla Holdings Inc.

Ecd Systems, Inc.

Daniel M Goldman

Richard B LeVine

Daniel G Howard

Andrew R Lee

John J Hart, Iii

James A Merkle, Jr

Jeffrey A Pagliarulo

Jose L Bouza

David L Johnson

James L Hunter

Timothy P Meyer

Michael E Hartman

Loren Steenhoek

Mohammadreza Ghaffarzadeh

Roberto Barreiro

Lyndon J Schroeder

Timothy J Wilhelm

Lori Carrigan

A number of systems and methods, alone, or in combination, achieve various levels of protection against unauthorized modification and distribution of digital content. This encompasses at least unauthorized study, modification, monitoring, reconstruction, and any other means for subversion from the originally intended purpose and license model of the digital content. The invention combines a number of techniques that in whole, or in part, serve to protect such content from unauthorized modification, reconstructive engineering, or monitoring by third parties. This is accomplished by means of methods which protect against subversion by specific tools operating on specific platforms as well as general tools operating on general platforms. Specific time domain attacks are identified, code modification can be identified and reversed, and virtual and emulated systems are identified. In addition, identification of in-circuit emulator tools (both software and hardware), debuggers, and security threats to running programs can be achieved.

Systems and methods for the prevention of unauthorized use and manipulation of digital content

Theft, distribution, and piracy of digital content (software, video, audio, e-books, any content of any kind that is digitally stored and distributed) is generally accomplished by copying it, if possible, or, if it is protected from being copied in any fashion, such piracy is based upon a number of reverse engineering techniques. Aside from the straightforward copying of unprotected content, all of these other methods require first an understanding of the protective mechanism(s) guarding the content, and finally an unauthorized modification of that protection in order to disable or subvert it. Methods that prevent a skilled individual from using reverse engineering tools and techniques to attain that level of understanding and/or prevent anyone from performing such modifications can offer significant advantages to content creators who wish to protect their products.

Systems and methods for preventing unauthorized use of digital content

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Daniel M Goldman