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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:
Apr. 07, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2002
Applicants:
Munetake Ebihara, Kanagawa, JP;
Mitsuru Tanabe, Kanagawa, JP;
Ichiro Sato, Chiba, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, , JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04K 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An information processing apparatus that enables management of copyrighted content to which identification information is not added. An arithmetical unit computes a hash value based on data from a portion of the content data recorded in a mini-disk (MD), and transmits the value from an input/output unit to a personal computer. Based on the hash value, the personal computer identifies the content recorded in the MD, and performs management procedures based on the display information of check-in and checkout of the content. The information processing apparatus can also be applied to personal computers.