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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:
Dec. 27, 2005
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2000
Michael F. Braitberg, Boulder, CO (US);
Steven B. Volk, Boulder, CO (US);
Daniel R. Zaharris, Longmont, CO (US);
David H. Davies, Boulder, CO (US);
Michael F. Braitberg, Boulder, CO (US);
Steven B. Volk, Boulder, CO (US);
Daniel R. Zaharris, Longmont, CO (US);
David H. Davies, 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 mastered data and a writeable area. In one aspect, a writeable region of a medium with mastered content 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, the (preferably write-once) writeable area can be used for storing later-written information such as annotations, highlighting, reordering, remixing, modifications, supplements, collections, additions, bookmarks, cross references, hypertext or hyperlinks and the like. Preferably, annotations and similar materials can be associated, by the user, with particular portions or content of the mastered data.