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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:
Sep. 15, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2007
Applicants:
Matthew T. Shea, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Alex K. St. John, Redmond, WA (US);
Sean W. Vanderdasson, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Matthew T. Shea, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Alex K. St. John, Redmond, WA (US);
Sean W. Vanderdasson, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
WildTangent, Inc, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/60 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for issuing licenses to allow end users to consume digital media content on a user device by responding to licensing requests by determining the number of digital tokens required to license the requested consumption and then issuing the license if the end user's account has a sufficient number of digital tokens.