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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:
Jul. 09, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2009
Applicants:
Daniel J. Lin, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christopher K. Hess, San Francisco, CA (US);
Eric F. Allen, San Ramon, CA (US);
Inventors:
Daniel J. Lin, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christopher K. Hess, San Francisco, CA (US);
Eric F. Allen, San Ramon, CA (US);
Assignee:
Pendragon Wireless LLC, Kirkland, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/00 (2012.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A hosted web service is provided to enable the legitimate sharing and reselling digital music among subscribers to the web service by leveraging the teachings of the first sale doctrine of copyright law. By maintaining a single copy of properly purchased song within the system that can be only accessed by one subscriber at a time, the web service preserves the rights of the copyright holder of the digital music while encouraging a community sharing.