Enforcement and policing of licensed content using content-based identifiers

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6928442
APP PUB NO 20020052884A1
SERIAL NO

09987723

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Data files are distributed across a plurality of computers. The computers may form a network such as a content delivery network (CDN) or a peer-to-peer network. The network may operate as a TCP/IP network such as the Internet. Data files may represent may represent digital messages, images, videos or audio signals. For content-data items or files in the system-a name is obtained (or determined), where the name is based, at least in part, on a given function of the data in a data item or file. The given function may be a message digest or hash function, and it may be MD4, MD5, and SHA. A cony of a requested file is only provided to licensed (or authorized) parties. The system may check one or more computers for unauthorized or unlicensed content. Content is served based on a measure of availability of servers.

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Patent Owner(s)

  • LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS, LLC;PERSONALWEB TECHNOLOGIES, LLC

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Farber, David A Ojai, CA 38 9505
Lachman, Ronald D Northbrook, IL 18 2800

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