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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:
Sep. 24, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 24, 1999
Ingemar J. Cox, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Matthew L. Miller, Princeton, NJ (US);
Signafy, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method for utilizing a title signal contained in digital data through a comparison of the title signal to a player signal stored in a player device. The method includes the steps of: downloading the digital data having the title signal via an Internet connection; possibly transferring the downloaded digital data to the player device; detecting, at the player device, the title signal in the data: comparing the title signal to the player signal stored at the player device; and performing an action based upon the comparison. In a preferred implementation of the present invention, the player device is a personal computer and the digital data is either image, video, audio or multimedia data or is an application program for running on the personal computer. Preferably, the player device is a personal computer. In other embodiments the title signal is contained in or part of an application program or is contained in data to be input into the application program.