Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jeffrey A Alger

Marco A Demello

Attila Narin

Yoram Yaacovi

Leroy B Keely

Leroy Bertrand Keely, Jr

Vinay Krishnaswamy

John L Beezer

Frank Byrum

John L Manferdelli

David M Silver

Pavel Zeman

Venkateshaiah Setty

Kathryn E Hughes

Christopher Robert Richard Madonna

An architecture for an integrated shopping service that enables electronic shopping from within a software application. The software application includes web browsing functionality, with the capability to navigate to a limited set of web sites. The client machine on which the software runs maintains a local list of the limited set of web sites that can be accessed from within the software application. A directory server maintains a list of retail web sites that can be added to the client's local list of accessible web sites. Each client machine that runs the software application connects to the directory server in order to add web sites to the locally-maintained list of sites that can be accessed from within the integrated shopping service.

Architecture for an electronic shopping service integratable with a software application

A digital rights management system for the distribution, protection and use of electronic content. The system includes a client architecture which receives content, where the content is preferably protected by encryption and may include a license and individualization features. Content is protected at several levels, including: no protection; source-sealed; individually-sealed (or 'inscribed'); source-signed; and fully-individualized (or 'owner exclusive'). The client also includes and/or receives components which permit the access and protection of the encrypted content, as well as components that allow content to be provided to the client in a form that is individualized for the client. In some cases, access to the content will be governed by a rights construct defined in the license bound to the content. The client components include an object which accesses encrypted content, an object that parses the license and enforces the rights in the license, an object which obtains protection software and data that is individualized for the client and/or the persona operating the client, and a script of instructions that provides individualization information to a distributor of content so that the content may be individualized for the client and/or its operating persona. Content is generally protected by encrypting it with a key and then sealing the key into the content in a way that binds it to the meta-data associated with the content. In some instances, the key may also be encrypted in such a way as to be accessible only by the use of individualized protection software installed on the client, thereby binding use of the content to a particular client or set of clients.

System and method for activating a rendering device in a multi-level rights-management architecture

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Jeffrey A Alger