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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2012
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Peter Shintani, San Diego, CA (US);
Aran London Sadja, San Diego, CA (US);
Ludovic Etienne Douillet, Escondido, CA (US);
Assignee:
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06Q 30/00 (2012.01); H04N 5/44 (2011.01); H04N 9/64 (2006.01); H04N 21/434 (2011.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01); H04N 21/426 (2011.01); H04N 21/438 (2011.01); H04N 21/6547 (2011.01); H04N 21/658 (2011.01); G06F 21/10 (2013.01); G06Q 40/00 (2012.01); H04N 21/254 (2011.01); H04N 21/4627 (2011.01); G06Q 20/20 (2012.01); G06F 21/12 (2013.01); H04N 21/2543 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/018 (2013.01); G06F 21/10 (2013.01); G06F 21/125 (2013.01); G06Q 20/20 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0251 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0283 (2013.01); G06Q 40/10 (2013.01); G06Q 40/12 (2013.12); H04N 5/44 (2013.01); H04N 5/4401 (2013.01); H04N 9/641 (2013.01); H04N 9/642 (2013.01); H04N 21/2541 (2013.01); H04N 21/2543 (2013.01); H04N 21/25816 (2013.01); H04N 21/4263 (2013.01); H04N 21/4347 (2013.01); H04N 21/4382 (2013.01); H04N 21/4627 (2013.01); H04N 21/6547 (2013.01); H04N 21/6581 (2013.01);
Abstract
Instead of buying blanket licenses for all licensable components of its CE devices, a manufacturer enables users to activate licensable components on a device basis and then obtains the necessary licenses individually. Seldom used activation modes and seldom activated licensable components can be pruned from future devices, while widely activated licensable components can be automatically enabled by purchasing a blanket license for those components. Characteristics of license requests and the people making them can be used to focus marketing.