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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 26, 1999
Larry C. Puhl, West Dundee, IL (US);
Dean H. Vogler, Algonquin, IL (US);
Ezzat A. Dabbish, Cary, IL (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A wireless electronic commerce system (,) comprising a wireless gateway (,) to a wireless network (,) with which a wireless device (,) having a unique client identifier (ID) is capable of communicating. A server (,) or servers (,and,) is/are coupleable to the wireless gateway, delivering content items (e.g. software products) to the wireless device (,) and maintaining digital content certificates for content items and digital license certificates for licenses for the content items. The server maintains, for each wireless client associated with the system, a record of licenses for that client and a record of content items associated with each license.