Contentguard Holdings, Inc.

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Peopleconnect, Inc.

Xerox Corporation

Contentgaurd Holdings, Inc.

Xin Wang

Guillermo Lao

Bijan Tadayon

Thanh Ta

Michael Charles Raley

Aram Nahidipour

Eddie J Chen

Charles P Gilliam

Thomas DeMartini

Edgardo Valenzuela

Sashi Raghupathy

Steve Atsushi Okamoto

Mai Nguyen

Manuel Ham

Russell Robert Lear

Nancy Lynn Ishigo

Alexander J Kolmykov-Zotov

Daniel C Chen

Anant Kansal

Prasad Ram

Deepanjan Kanungo

Mark Berchowitz

Ivy Y Chen

M S Roopa

Arun Ray

C V Joshi

Tushar N Padhye

Wenwu Zhu

Zihua Guo

Richard Yuqi Yao

Hakan Kardes

Ralph H Brenner

Siddharth Agrawal

Ang Sun

Basavaraj B H

Brian LaMacchia

Manoj Kumar Biswas

John D DeTreville

Muthukrishnan Paramasivam

Ming Ye

Arun Ramanujapuram

Joseph Zhung Yee Fung

Leonard W Mayer

Lin Chen

Bob Atkinson

Robert Schuler

Deepak Konidena

Thomas Soestini

B H Basavaraj

Micah Huff

Ralph H Brenner, Jr

Andrew Kellberg

Xinyu Sun

Yongliang Liu

Shaobo Zhang

Robert E Schuler

Arun Ramanujpuram

Steve A Okamoto

Russel R Lear

Mary Jordan Theodore

Thanh T Ta

Jennifer Dolan Thomas

Stephen M Hersee

Thahn Ta

Michael Raley

Cynthia Hatcher

Raydel Anderson

A novel entity resolution approach for the organization entity domain can be implemented in the MapReduce framework with low memory requirements so that it may scale to large scale datasets. A new clustering approach, sClust, significantly improves the recall of the pairwise classifier.

Graph-based organization entity resolution

A method, system, and computer program product for controlling consumption of a distributed network service in accordance with rights expression information associated with the distributed network service and specifying a manner of use of the distributed network service, including interpreting the rights expression information associated with the distributed network service, the rights expression information indicating a manner of use of the distributed network service; and controlling consumption of the distributed network service based on the rights expression information.

Networked services licensing system and method

A system and method are provided for specifying a legality expression for use in a system for processing the legality expression. The system and method include providing a legality expression language, including at least one of a duty element specifying an obligation that a principal must perform an act, a ban element specifying a prohibition that a principal must not perform an act, an intent element specifying an intention that a principal wants to perform an act, and a claim element specifying an assertion that a principal does perform an act. The system and method further include interpreting by the system a legality expression specified using the legality expression language.

System and method for specifying and processing legality expressions

Finding connected components in a graph is a well-known problem in a wide variety of application areas such as social network analysis, data mining, image processing, and etc. We present an efficient and scalable approach to find all the connected components in a given graph. We compare our approach with the state-of-the-art on a real-world graph. We also demonstrate the viability of our approach on a massive graph with &#x2dc;6B nodes and &#x2dc;92B edges on an 80-node Hadoop cluster. To the best of our knowledge, this is the largest graph publicly used in such an experiment.

Fast and scalable connected component computation

Shape recognition is performed based on determining whether one or more ink strokes is not part of a shape or a partial shape. Ink strokes are divided into segments and the segments analyzed employing a relative angular distance histogram. The histogram analysis yields stable, incremental, and discriminating featurization results. Neural networks may also be employed along with the histogram analysis to determine complete shapes from partial shape entries and autocomplete suggestions provided to users for conversion of the shape into a known object.

Shape recognition using partial shapes

A self-contained device for protecting content, the content having usage rights associated therewith, includes a usage rights portion having usage rights that control the use of the content; a rights management module that authorizes a request to access to the content based on the usage rights; a rights assignment module that generates and updates the usage rights based on the content access; and an interface module that allows accessing of the content.

Method and apparatus for hierarchical assignment of rights to documents and documents having such rights

A method and system for managing use of items having usage rights associated therewith including a point of capture system adapted to generate content of a future event when the event occurs, a content distributor adapted to generate a rights label having usage rights associated with content of the future event before the content is created, the rights label having a distribution key for encrypting the content as the content is generated, the distribution key being encrypted with a public key. The system also includes a license server adapted to generate a license associate with the content from the rights label before the content is generated, the license including the distribution key encrypted with the public key, and a content distributor adapted to distribute the license before the content is generated.

Digital rights management of content when content is a future live event

The publishing system and method automates at least some portion of a publishing process. The system publishes content using metadata, rights templates and/or specifications, publishing profiles and business rules.

Method and system for automatically publishing content

Processes and systems for offering and granting digital rights that govern distribution and usage of content, services and resources. The processes and systems provide a basis for flexible business models and negotiation transactions between content providers and users. The concept of meta-rights, which permit digital rights to be derived, permits upstream parties in a content distribution chain to dictate rights granted and received by downstream parties. Therefore, each transaction can be considered as a two party transaction between a rights supplier and a rights consumer.

Rights offering and granting

Usage rights for a digital work are established prior to creation of the corresponding content. The rights can be associated with the content after the content is created. A content creation, such as a video recorder or a still camera, device can store labels of the rights and can associate usage rights with content in real time as the content is created.

Method and apparatus for establishing usage rights for digital content to be created in the future

A system for managing use of digital content within a trusted community. An access list defines the trusted community. License requests for use of content made from outside the trusted community are handled in accordance with a license request policy process.

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Xin Wang