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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:
Oct. 07, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 10, 1999
Michael F. Braitberg, Boulder, CO (US);
Steven B. Volk, Boulder, CO (US);
DPHI Acquisitions, Inc., Boulder, CO (US);
Abstract
An optical medium uses a single structure or format (such as identical materials, layers and the like) for both a region for holding information content-mastered data and a writeable area. In one aspect, a writeable region of a medium with information content-mastered data is used in connection with paying, collecting or accounting for usage or royalties for proprietary intellectual property embodied in or associated with the content. In one embodiment, a key permitting access to some or all content, preferably when combined with a disk serial number, is stored in the writeable area, which is preferably user-inaccessible.