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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:
Jul. 24, 2007

Filed:

Dec. 24, 1999
Applicants:

Mitsuru Tanabe, Kanagawa, JP;

Itaru Kawakami, Kanagawa, JP;

Ryuji Ishiguro, Tokyo, JP;

Yuichi Ezura, Kanagawa, JP;

Inventors:

Mitsuru Tanabe, Kanagawa, JP;

Itaru Kawakami, Kanagawa, JP;

Ryuji Ishiguro, Tokyo, JP;

Yuichi Ezura, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 99/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A contents databasememorizes the discriminating information for discriminating contents and the temporal information as to the time of content duplication associated with the discriminating information. A recording programacquires the discriminating information of contents to be duplicated and duplicates the contents in association with the acquired discriminating information and with the temporal information memorized in the contents database. This substantially prohibits duplication in large quantities without significantly impairing the interests of a user.


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