Kathryn N Hughes

US Patent:

7158953, Jan 2, 2007

Filed:

Jun 27, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/604222

Inventors:

Marco A. DeMello - Redmond WA, US
Yoram Yaacovi - Redmond WA, US
Pavel Zeman - Kirkland WA, US
Kathryn E. Hughes - Redmond WA, US
Frank D. Byrum - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

H04K 1/00
H04L 9/00

US Classification:

705 51, 713201, 713189, 713161

Abstract:

A server architecture for a digital rights management system that distributes and protects rights in content. The server architecture includes a retail site which sells content items to consumers, a fulfillment site which provides to consumers the content items sold by the retail site, and an activation site which enables consumer reading devices to use content items having an enhanced level of copy protection. An activation site provides an activation certificate and a secure repository executable to consumer content-rendering devices which enables those content rendering devices to render content having an enhanced level of copy-resistance. The activation site “activates” client-reading devices in a way that binds them to a persona, and limits the number of devices that may be activated for a particular persona, or the rate at which such devices may be activated for a particular persona.

US Patent:

7171692, Jan 30, 2007

Filed:

Jun 27, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/604939

Inventors:

Marco A. DeMello - Redmond WA, US
Pavel Zeman - Makawao HI, US
Vinay Krishnaswamy - Woodinville WA, US
Prashant Malik - Bellevue WA, US
Kathryn E. Hughes - Redmond WA, US
Frank D. Byrum - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

H04L 9/00
H04L 9/32
G06F 3/00
G06F 15/16

US Classification:

726 26, 719313, 719315, 709203

Abstract:

A server architecture for a digital rights management system that distributes and protects rights in content. The server architecture includes a retail site which sells content items to consumers, a fulfillment site which provides to consumers the content items sold by the retail site. The fulfillment site includes an asynchronous fulfillment pipeline which logs information about processed transactions using a store-and-forward messaging service. The fulfillment site may be implemented as several server devices, each having a cache which stores frequently downloaded content items, in which case the asynchronous fulfillment pipeline may also be used to invalidate the cache if a change is made at one server that affects the cached content items.

US Patent:

7634429, Dec 15, 2009

Filed:

May 6, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/840516

Inventors:

Attila Narin - Bothell WA, US
Marco A. DeMello - Redmond WA, US
Yoram Yaacovi - Redmond WA, US
Jeffrey A. Alger - Redmond WA, US
Leroy B. Keely - Portola Valley CA, US
David Michael Silver - Sammamish WA, US
Christopher Robert Richard Madonna - Seattle WA, US
John Beezer - Seattle WA, US
Kathryn E. Hughes - Redmond WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06Q 30/00

US Classification:

705 26, 705 37

Abstract:

An architecture for an integrated shopping service that enables electronic shopping from within a software application. The software application includes web browsing functionality, with the capability to navigate to a limited set of web sites. The client machine on which the software runs maintains a local list of the limited set of web sites that can be accessed from within the software application. A directory server maintains a list of retail web sites that can be added to the client's local list of accessible web sites. Each client machine that runs the software application connects to the directory server in order to add web sites to the locally-maintained list of sites that can be accessed from within the integrated shopping service.

US Patent:

7823208, Oct 26, 2010

Filed:

Jun 18, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/871739

Inventors:

Marco A. DeMello - Redmond WA, US
Leroy B. Keely - Portola Valley CA, US
Frank D. Byrum - Seattle WA, US
Yoram Yaacovi - Redmond WA, US
Kathryn E. Hughes - Redmond WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 7/04
G06F 21/00

US Classification:

726 26, 726 2, 726 27, 726 29, 705 51, 705 59

Abstract:

A server architecture for a digital rights management system that distributes and protects rights in content. The server architecture includes a retail site which sells content items to consumers, a fulfillment site which provides to consumers the content items sold by the retail site, and an activation site which enables consumer reading devices to use content items having an enhanced level of copy protection. Each retail site is equipped with a URL encryption object, which encrypts, according to a secret symmetric key shared between the retail site and the fulfillment site, information that is needed by the fulfillment site to process an order for content sold by the retail site. Upon selling a content item, the retail site transmits to the purchaser a web page having a link to a URL comprising the address of the fulfillment site and a parameter having the encrypted information. Upon following the link, the fulfillment site downloads the ordered content to the consumer, preparing the content if necessary in accordance with the type of security to be carried with the content. The fulfillment site includes an asynchronous fulfillment pipeline which logs information about processed transactions using a store-and-forward messaging service.

US Patent:

20020046045, Apr 18, 2002

Filed:

Jun 28, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/894519

Inventors:

Attila Narin - Bothell WA, US
Marco DeMello - Redmond WA, US
Yoram Yaacovi - Redmond WA, US
Jeffrey Alger - Redmond WA, US
Leroy Keely - Portola Valley CA, US
David Silver - Sammamish WA, US
Christopher Madonna - Seattle WA, US
John Beezer - Seattle WA, US
Kathryn Hughes - Redmond WA, US

International Classification:

G06F017/60

US Classification:

705/001000

Abstract:

An architecture for an integrated shopping service that enables electronic shopping from within a software application. The software application includes web browsing functionality, with the capability to navigate to a limited set of web sites. The client machine on which the software runs maintains a local list of the limited set of web sites that can be accessed from within the software application. A directory server maintains a list of retail web sites that can be added to the client's local list of accessible web sites. Each client machine that runs the software application connects to the directory server in order to add web sites to the locally-maintained list of sites that can be accessed from within the integrated shopping service.

US Patent:

6891953, May 10, 2005

Filed:

Jun 27, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/604541

Inventors:

Marco A. DeMello - Redmond WA, US
Leroy B. Keely - Portola Valley CA, US
Frank D. Byrum - Seattle WA, US
Yoram Yaacovi - Redmond WA, US
Kathryn E. Hughes - Redmond WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

H04L009/00

US Classification:

380277, 380259, 380281, 380282, 380284, 380285, 380 45, 713156, 713171

Abstract:

A server architecture for a digital rights management system that distributes and protects rights in content. The server architecture includes a retail site which sells content items to consumers, a fulfillment site which provides to consumers the content items sold by the retail site, and an activation site which enables consumer reading devices to use content items having an enhanced level of copy protection. Each retail site is equipped with a URL encryption object, which encrypts, according to a secret symmetric key shared between the retail site and the fulfillment site, information that is needed by the fulfillment site to process an order for content sold by the retail site. Upon selling a content item, the retail site transmits to the purchaser a web page having a link to a URL comprising the address of the fulfillment site and a parameter having the encrypted information. Upon following the link, the fulfillment site downloads the ordered content to the consumer, preparing the content if necessary in accordance with the type of security to be carried with the content. The fulfillment site includes an asynchronous fulfillment pipeline which logs information about processed transactions using a store-and-forward messaging service.