US 8,001,053 B2
System and method for rights offering and granting using shared state variablesGeneral
US 8,001,053 B2
System and method for rights offering and granting using shared state variables
Tech Center:
3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security and License and Review
Examiner:
Evens J Augustin
Art Unit:
3621 Business Methods — Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing
Agent:
Inventors:
Mai Nguyen; Xin Wang; Eddie J. Chen; Bijan Tadayon
Assignee:
Priority:
05/31/01
Filed:
10/04/04
Granted:
08/16/11
Expiration:
09/18/23
Abstract
A method, system and device for sharing rights adapted to be associated with items, the method and system including generating at least one of usage rights and meta-rights for the items; defining, via the usage rights, a manner of use for the items; and defining, via the meta-rights, a manner of rights transfer for the items. The device including receiving at least one of usage rights and meta-rights for the items; interpreting, via the usage rights, a manner of use for the items; and interpreting, via the meta-rights, a manner of rights transfer for the items. The usage rights or the meta-rights include at least one state variable that is shared by one or more rights.
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)
H04H04L2463/101H04LG07F17/0014G07FG06Q20/1235G06Q