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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. 21, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2005
Applicants:
Brian P. Evans, Redmond, WA (US);
Clifford P. Strom, Sammamish, WA (US);
Geoffrey Dunbar, Kirkland, WA (US);
Richard D. Prologo, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Brian P. Evans, Redmond, WA (US);
Clifford P. Strom, Sammamish, WA (US);
Geoffrey Dunbar, Kirkland, WA (US);
Richard D. Prologo, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2006.01); H04K 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method is provided for a computing device to copy (burn) a playlist of tracks to a portable medium, where each track corresponds to a piece of digital content. At least one of the pieces of content is rights-management (RM) protected and accordingly is burned to the portable medium only in accordance with a corresponding digital license.