Yahoo! Inc.

Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC

Rajiv Puranik

Murgesh Navar

Andrey Yruski

Michael Hsu

Sandeep Kumar

Timothy Ross McCune

Jay Ramamurthi

ChyrSong Ting

Scott Haynie

Yassine Faihe

David Penkler

Francois-Xavier Kowalski

Agnieszka Thonet

Yves Del Medico

Systems and methods are described for, e.g., providing a statutory audio content service on a portable device that complies with the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The user can select a playlist subject to DMCA restrictions but cannot access individual items. Content playback, including skipping of content, is restricted to enforce relevant DMCA provisions. Encryption used to implement digital rights management (DRM) may be modified to enforce such content play rules or, alternatively, an additional layer of encryption may be imposed. Limitations on playback are stored along with the playlist structure in a form that is protected against modification. Information logging content playback is maintained in protected form to be uploaded and relayed to the service provider for the purpose of calculating royalty payments.

Statutory license restricted digital media playback on portable devices

Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to processing content using a personal cloud. One of a plurality of content items respectively associated with a plurality of devices of a personal cloud is determined. A processing to be performed on the one content item is determined. The processed version of the one content item is determined.

Utilizing content via personal clouds

A method and apparatus for intelligent caching is provided. A thin layer of business logic on a web server receives URL requests sent to the web server from clients and resolves the URLs into URLs corresponding to component parts of the requested document according to the rules of a rule set. Thus only the component resources of a composite document are cached in the web server's caching layer. The rule set defines a format for the requests sent to the web server, the manner in which properly formatted requests should be resolved, and the manner in which the component resources should be assembled into the composite document.

Efficient caching for dynamic webservice queries using cachable fragments

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