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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:
Feb. 14, 2012

Filed:

Jun. 29, 2007
Applicants:

Boyd Cannon Multerer, Redmond, WA (US);

William T. Flora, Seattle, WA (US);

Bret P. O'rourke, Kirkland, WA (US);

John Mark Miller, Kirkland, WA (US);

Eric Peter Wilfrid, Mountain View, CA (US);

Nigel Stuart Keam, Redmond, WA (US);

Steven N. Bathiche, Kirkland, WA (US);

Oliver Roup, Seattle, WA (US);

James Morris Alkove, Woodinville, WA (US);

Zachary Lewis Russell, Bellevue, WA (US);

Jon Marcus Randall Whitten, Sammamish, WA (US);

Andrew David Wilson, Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Boyd Cannon Multerer, Redmond, WA (US);

William T. Flora, Seattle, WA (US);

Bret P. O'Rourke, Kirkland, WA (US);

John Mark Miller, Kirkland, WA (US);

Eric Peter Wilfrid, Mountain View, CA (US);

Nigel Stuart Keam, Redmond, WA (US);

Steven N. Bathiche, Kirkland, WA (US);

Oliver Roup, Seattle, WA (US);

James Morris Alkove, Woodinville, WA (US);

Zachary Lewis Russell, Bellevue, WA (US);

Jon Marcus Randall Whitten, Sammamish, WA (US);

Andrew David Wilson, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/00 (2006.01); G06Q 30/00 (2006.01); G06Q 20/00 (2006.01); G06G 1/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A system to facilitate royalty tracking is provided. The system includes at least one tag to identify a portion of a creative work. A distribution component tracks the portion of the creative work and a crediting component reports usage of the creative work when the portion is detected in a larger body of work.


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