Digital Containers Receives Tracking Electronic Content Patent.FAIRFAX Fairfax, city (1990 pop. 19,622), historic seat of Fairfax co., NE Va., a residential suburb of Washington, D.C.; inc. 1892, as a city 1961 (at which time it became independent and no longer included in a county). There is some light manufacturing. , Va. -- DigitalContainers has received approval from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a second patent, Tracking Electronic Content, U.S. Patent No. 6,751,670(a). DigitalContainers' Tracking Electronic Content patent describes a system whereby a secure digital content file persistently reports the identification of, and provides information about, any new user that attempts to access the content. With the granting of the Tracking Electronic Content patent, DigitalContainers has obtained what amounts to the "Superdistribution" patent for the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the and distributed networks. The central concept of this patent is that access to electronic content can be tracked as the content is passed from user to user, whether they send the content over the Internet, peer-to-peer networks (1) A network of computers configured to allow certain files and folders to be shared with everyone or with selected users. Peer-to-peer networks are quite common in small offices that do not use a dedicated file server. , e-mail or using physical media. The tracking function is accomplished by transmitting transmitting, v to send and receive information, signals, and so on; allows a therapist to perceive a client's physical, emotional, and spiritual states. notification information back to an Internet address There are two kinds of addresses that are widely used on the Internet. One is a person's e-mail address, and the other is the address of a Web site, which is known as a URL. Following is an explanation of Internet e-mail addresses only. For more on URLs, see URL and Internet domain name. that is pre-determined by the original sender of the content as each successive user attempts to access the electronic content. The notification information can include any of the following: --the user's name and email address See Internet address. ; --payment information --demographic data collected from the user interactively; --system or network identification information derived from the user's computer. Once the notification information has been successfully received, access to the content is then selectively granted based on previously defined criteria. The system described in Tracking Electronic Content ties into the token authorization The right or permission to use a system resource; the process of granting access. See access control. / payment processing concept specified in the company's previously granted patent, Regulating Access to Digital Content (U.S. Patent No. 6,389,541). Regulating Access to Digital Content describes a process whereby access to digital content, such as text, video, and music, is based on the completion of an authorization process before access to the protected content is granted. When the two patented systems are used together, they provide a secure, lightweight architecture for superdistribution of all types of digital content. (a) Please note the patent is incorrectly named "Tracking Electronic Component" on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office web site. |
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