David S Levine

US Patent:

6961714, Nov 1, 2005

Filed:

Jul 25, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/625017

Inventors:

David LeVine - Redwood City CA, US

International Classification:

G06F017/60

US Classification:

705 51, 705 52, 705 53, 705 57

Abstract:

The invention is a business method for calculating royalty owner rights—specifically, calculating a metric of use corresponding to an aspect of royalty owner interest in an aggregate multi-royalty owned electronic content. In one embodiment, a large number of users, on the Internet, download or otherwise have access to a large collection of popular music. Even though some percentage of these users may never reconnect to the Internet in such a way as to facilitate sending an actual use report of listening from the collection, nevertheless a statistically significant number of the users will provide subsequent reporting, and this is sufficient to allow a metric of actual use to be computed for use in a royalty owner rights distribution event.

US Patent:

8498850, Jul 30, 2013

Filed:

Sep 14, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/618437

Inventors:

Ernest G. Booch - Littleton CO, US
Anni R. Coden - Riverdale NY, US
David W. Levine - New York NY, US
Michael A. Tanenblatt - Nassau NY, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06G 7/48

US Classification:

703 6, 706 12, 702183

Abstract:

A hybrid simulation system to model cascading events within a black box system may include a tessellated field operable to allow a plurality of black box components to execute on a processor and communicate without needing a direct connection between the black box components. The black box components have transfer functions defined over a common coordinate system and time.

US Patent:

20030061481, Mar 27, 2003

Filed:

Sep 26, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/259060

Inventors:

David Levine - Scotts Valley CA, US
Ron Cain - Scotts Valley CA, US
Sidney Markowitz - Santa Cruz CA, US

International Classification:

H04L009/00

US Classification:

713/163000

Abstract:

A secure and scalable broadcast system and method of creating the same, having a plurality of nodes connected to a network with pre-positioned public/private encryption keys, including at least one root node for publishing digital messages, a plurality of interior nodes for relaying the published digital messages, and a plurality of leaf nodes for receiving the published and relayed messages. Each digital message includes an encrypted payload, and a symmetric key for decrypting the payload. The root and interior nodes publish and relay the message by encrypting the symmetric key with the public key of each node that will receive the published/relayed message from that node. Each interior and leaf node decrypts the symmetric key using its private key. Only the leaf nodes decrypt the message payload using the symmetric key. A back channel sends messages from the leaf nodes to the root nodes in the same manner.

US Patent:

20130085739, Apr 4, 2013

Filed:

Oct 3, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/251892

Inventors:

Ernest G. Booch - Littleton CO, US
Anni R. Coden - Riverdale NY, US
David W. Levine - New York NY, US
Michael A. Tanenblatt - Nassau NY, US

Assignee:

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06G 7/62

US Classification:

703 17

Abstract:

A hybrid simulation system to model cascading events within a black box system may include a tessellated field operable to allow a plurality of black box components to execute on a processor and communicate without needing a direct connection between the black box components. The black box components have transfer functions defined over a common coordinate system and time.