Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Screening Room Media, Inc.

Intel Corporation

Sr Labs, Inc.

Antimatter Research, Inc.

Domatic, Inc.

Other

Webtv Networks, Inc.

Microsoft Corporation

Rovi Technologies Corporation

James Armand Baldwin

Peter T Barrett

Dustin Lyle Green

Prem Akkaraju

Giorgio Vanzini

John Henry Grossman, Iv

Joseph H Matthews, Iii

Louis F Coffin, Iii

James Lundblad

Todd E Holmdahl

Geoffrey R Smith

Doug Burger

Peter Ian Macdonald

Daniel John Zigmond

Edward Owen Clapper

Suri B Medapati

Samuel Thomas Scott, Iii

Andrew Walters

David L De Heer

Michael J Castillo

Jay B Schiller

Michael D Dodd

Elizabeth Rose McEnroe

Grant Mohr

David C Clifford

George K Nyako

Hedley C Davis

Gladys Wong

Grant D Mohr

David Hendler Sloo

Lei Zhang

Peter John Potrebic

Johannes P Schmidt

Li Yang

Patrik Schnell

Gladys Yuen Yan Wong

Bradley Robert Pettit

Nicolae Surpatanu

Steven Wasserman

Eric Soldan

Guo Qing Chen

David Rogers Treadwell, Iii

Dennis George Cronin

Shaheedur Reza Haque

Kevin T Carle

Guangli Zhang

Deepak Prakash

Victor Tirva

Ron Morris

Hans-Martin Krober

Yoko Sannomiya

Oleg S Varshavsky

Geroncio G Galicia

Paul B Brown

Du Chenyang

Joseph H Matthews Iii

Gladys Yuan Yan Wong

Chen Guo

Han Long

John H Grossman

John H Grossman Iv

This invention allows an end user ('client') to access one of any number of devices via a server (or cluster of server instances). Each device may be in a different physical location and different location on the Internet or other network. Each device might also be behind a router or firewall that makes direct access to the device impossible. Clients may optionally be authenticated to ensure they are authorized to access a particular device, and devices may also be authenticated to verify their identity to prevent spoofing. Access to a device is achieved by tunneling network requests over a persistent connection that the device establishes when it first comes online.

System and method for tunneling network requests to a device via a persistent connection

A method for preventing digital content misuse can include detecting, by a client-side computing device, that the client-side computing device is paired to a viewing device such that, after being paired, the client-side computing device can cause digital content received from a remote server to be presented on a display of the viewing device; after detecting that the client-side computing device is paired to the viewing device, detecting, by the client-side computing device, that the client-side computing device has been unpaired from the viewing device; and in response to detecting that the client-side computing device has been unpaired from the viewing device, executing a remedial action.

Pairing devices to prevent digital content misuse

A system for delivering power and data over a single wire via a hub, wherein the hub can control and power multiple low-power Class 2 circuits. The hub can be controlled remotely through a computing device such as a mobile phone or a computer.

Intelligent low-voltage power delivery system and method

An always-on telepresence device for permanently connecting two distinct locations in a way that allows for 'incidental contact' between people at the distinct locations.

Always-on telepresence device

A method for issuing digital credentials can include assigning a digital credential to a user account maintained by the digital content delivery system; receiving, from a mobile computing device associated with the user account, a first request for the digital credential; in response to receiving the first request: determining whether a current location of the mobile computing device is within a predetermined geographic distance of the selected exhibitor location, and determining whether a remaining amount of time until a scheduled start time of the selected scheduled presentation is less than a threshold amount of time; and in response to determining that either the current location of the mobile computing device is outside of the predetermined geographic distance of the selected exhibitor location or the remaining amount of time until the scheduled start time of the selected scheduled presentation is greater than the threshold amount of time, denying the first request.

Digital credential system

A method for preventing digital content misuse can include receiving, by a digital content delivery system, a request from a client-side computing device to access digital content maintained by the digital content delivery system; determining, by the digital content delivery system, that a number of times the client-side computing device has accessed digital content meets or exceeds a threshold number of times the client-side computing device is permitted to access digital content; and in response to determining that the number of times the client-side computing device has accessed digital content meets or exceeds the threshold number, denying the request and executing a remedial action.

Monitoring digital content usage history to prevent digital content misuse

A method for detecting digital content misuse can include clustering a set of data points into a set of known violator dusters; determining, based on the set of known violator clusters, that a first user account is potentially a digital content violator, the first user account being represented by a first data point that is not included in the first set of data points, and the first data point having been determined based on usage signal data describing digital content usage association with the first user account; and in response to determining that the first user account is potentially a digital content violator, executing a remedial action with respect to the first user account.

Detecting digital content misuse based on know violator usage clusters

A method for detecting digital content misuse can include clustering, by a digital content delivery system, a set of data points into a set of digital content usage clusters, each data point from the set of data points representing a unique user account from a set of user accounts maintained by the digital content delivery system, and each data point from the set of data points having been determined based on usage signal data describing digital content usage associated with the unique user account represented by the data point; determining, based on the set of digital content usage clusters, that a first data point from the set of data points is an outlier; and in response to determining that the first data point from the set of data points is an outlier, executing a remedial action with respect to a user account represented by the first data point.

Detecting digital content misuse based on digital content usage clusters

In some embodiments, a method for preventing digital content misuse can include receiving, by a client-side computing device, digital content from a remote server; determining, by the client-side computing device, a current location of the client-side computing device; determining, based on the current location of the client-side computing device, that the client-side computing device is outside of a predetermined geographic area in which the client-side computing device is authorized to present the digital content; and in response to determining that the client-side computing device is outside of the predetermined geographic area, executing a remedial action.

Monitoring location of a client-side digital content delivery device to prevent digital content misuse

A method for preventing digital content misuse can include presenting, by a client-side computing device, digital content that was received from a remote server; detecting, by the client-side computing device, a number of mobile computing devices that are within a geographic distance of the client-side computing device; determining, based on the number of mobile computing device that are within the geographic distance of the client-side computing device, that a number of users viewing the digital content exceeds a threshold number of authorized users associated with the digital content; and in response to determining that the number of users viewing the digital content exceeds the threshold number of authorized users associated with the digital content, executing a first remedial action.

Monitoring nearby mobile computing devices to prevent digital content misuse

A system comprising a gateway capable of connecting to an Internet router, and at least one Internet-connected device, said Internet-connected device comprising a digital certificate limiting its Internet access to a particular server or servers, said gateway capable of verifying the certificate and connecting the Internet-connected device to its server or servers.

Secure auto-provisioning device network

Growing community of inventors

Redwood City, CA, United States of America

James Armand Baldwin