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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:
Mar. 15, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2014
Applicant:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventor:
Julio Estrada, Bellevue, WA (US);
Assignee:
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06Q 30/00 (2012.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30575 (2013.01); G06F 17/30864 (2013.01); G06Q 30/00 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of tracking statistics related to a container of data is disclosed. A container created by an author may be stored on a network. Other users aside from the author may be permitted to search for containers. The other users may be permitted to obtain a copy of a selected container and statistics related to a number of copies of the container obtained may be stored.