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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.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2007

Filed:

Jun. 27, 2001
Applicants:

Rajasekhar Abburi, Medina, WA (US);

James M. Alkove, Woodinville, WA (US);

William P. Mcneill, Seattle, WA (US);

Jeffrey R. Mckune, Issaquah, WA (US);

Inventors:

Rajasekhar Abburi, Medina, WA (US);

James M. Alkove, Woodinville, WA (US);

William P. McNeill, Seattle, WA (US);

Jeffrey R. McKune, Issaquah, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/22 (2006.01); G06F 21/20 (2006.01); G06F 21/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An enforcement architecture and method for implementing roaming digital rights management are disclosed. A license distributed from a license server to a computing device of a user may be uploaded to a license synchronization server, and rebound to other devices registered with the service, thereby enabling access to the licensed content from other computing devices. A second digital license of a second computing device is set to expire prior to a first digital license of a first computing device. Reactivating a decayed first digital license, that is deactivated during transmission of the second digital license, to the second device to access content of the first computing device.


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