User-based digital rights management
    1.
    发明授权
    User-based digital rights management 有权
    基于用户的数字版权管理

    公开(公告)号:US07891011B1

    公开(公告)日:2011-02-15

    申请号:US11126729

    申请日:2005-05-11

    IPC分类号: G06F7/04 G06F12/14 G06F21/24

    CPC分类号: G06F21/10

    摘要: A digital content management system is provided in which a user's rights to access content are independent of the format in which the content is stored. A user receives a file containing electronic content, such as music or a ring tone, encoded in a particular format. The system determines the identity of that content, independent of the format in which the content is encoded. The system then determines whether the user has rights to that content. If so, the user is permitted to play the content. If the user later receives a different file that contains the same content but in a different format, the system determines that the different file encodes content that the user already has the right to play, and it allows the user to play the content in the second format.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种数字内容管理系统,其中用户访问内容的权限与存储内容的格式无关。 用户接收包含以特定格式编码的电子内容(例如音乐或铃声)的文件。 系统确定内容的身份,与内容被编码的格式无关。 然后系统确定用户是否拥有该内容的权限。 如果是这样,则允许用户播放内容。 如果用户稍后接收到包含相同内容但不同格式的不同文件,则系统确定不同的文件对用户已经具有播放权的内容进行编码,并且允许用户在第二个中播放内容 格式。

    Banded billing and associated invoice generation for communication service
    2.
    发明授权
    Banded billing and associated invoice generation for communication service 有权
    带通计费和通信服务的相关发票生成

    公开(公告)号:US07603103B1

    公开(公告)日:2009-10-13

    申请号:US11406753

    申请日:2006-04-19

    IPC分类号: H04M11/00

    摘要: An improved billing system for communication service is disclosed. A printed and/or online invoice will be generated for a subscriber's account and will be structured to include a visual gauge that depicts the extent of use for the billing period at issue. More particularly, the visual gauge will take the form of a table or listing that shows a continuum of possible time-increment or data-increment-ranges and that shows, for each range, the associated cost. The visual gauge will then include a visual marker that highlights or otherwise points out the increment-range into which the subscriber's use fell in the billing period at issue. Conveniently, the invention thus enables a subscriber to readily visualize where the subscriber's use fell within the continuum of possible increment-ranges.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种用于通信服务的改进的计费系统。 将为订户的帐户生成打印和/或在线发票,并将其结构化为包括描述所讨论的结算周期的使用程度的视觉尺度。 更具体地,视觉测量仪将采用表或列表的形式,其显示可能的时间增量或数据增量范围的连续体,并且对于每个范围显示相关联的成本。 然后,视觉测量仪将包括一个视觉标记,其突出显示或以其他方式指出用户在使用的记帐周期中所使用的增量范围。 方便地,本发明使得用户能够容易地将用户的使用落在可能的增量范围的连续体内。