PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem, wherein it is impossible for an electronic content information provider to provide commercially secure and effective method, for a configurable general-purpose electronic commercial transaction/distribution control system. SOLUTION: In this system, having at least one protected processing environment for safely controlling at least one portion of decoding of digital information, a secure content distribution method comprises a process for encapsulating digital information in one or more digital containers; a process for encrypting at least a portion of digital information; a process for associating at least partially secure control information for managing interactions with encrypted digital information and/or digital container; a process for delivering one or more digital containers to a digital information user; and a process for using a protected processing environment, for safely controlling at least a portion of the decoding of the digital information. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

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Systems and Methods for Secure Transaction Management and Electronic Rights Protection

An intelligent electronic appliance preferably includes a user interface, data input and/or output port, and an intelligent processor. A preferred embodiment comprises a set top box for interacting with broadband media streams, with an adaptive user interface, content-based media processing and/or media metadata processing, and telecommunications integration. An adaptive user interface models the user, by observation, feedback, and/or explicit input, and presents a user interface and/or executes functions based on the user model. A content-based media processing system analyzes media content, for example audio and video, to understand the content, for example to generate content-descriptive metadata. A media metadata processing system operates on locally or remotely generated metadata to process the media in accordance with the metadata, which may be, for example, an electronic program guide, MPEG 7 data, and/or automatically generated format. A set top box preferably includes digital trick play effects, and incorporated digital rights management features.

Intelligent electronic appliance system and method

Methods and apparatuses for targeting the delivery of advertisements over a network such as the Internet are disclosed. Statistics are compiled on individual users and networks and the use of the advertisements is tracked to permit targeting of the advertisements of individual users. In response to requests from affiliated sites, an advertising server transmits to people accessing the page of a site an appropriate one of the advertisement based upon profiling of users and networks.

Method of delivery, targeting, and measuring advertising over networks

The present invention is a method and apparatus for effectuating bilateral buyer-driven commerce. The present invention allows prospective buyers of goods and services to communicate a binding purchase offer globally to potential sellers, for sellers conveniently to search for relevant buyer purchase offers, and for sellers potentially to bind a buyer to a contract based on the buyer's purchase offer. In a preferred embodiment, the apparatus of the present invention includes a controller which receives binding purchase offers from prospective buyers. The controller makes purchase offers available globally to potential sellers. Potential sellers then have the option to accept a purchase offer and thus bind the corresponding buyer to a contract. The method and apparatus of the present invention have applications on the Internet as well as conventional communications systems such as voice telephony.

Method and apparatus for a cryptographically assisted commercial network system designed to facilitate buyer-driven conditional purchase offers

An adaptive interface for a programmable system, for predicting a desired user function, based on user history, as well as machine internal status and context. The apparatus receives an input from the user and other data. A predicted input is presented for confirmation by the user, and the predictive mechanism is updated based on this feedback. Also provided is a pattern recognition system for a multimedia device, wherein a user input is matched to a video stream on a conceptual basis, allowing inexact programming of a multimedia device. The system analyzes a data stream for correspondence with a data pattern for processing and storage. The data stream is subjected to adaptive pattern recognition to extract features of interest to provide a highly compressed representation which may be efficiently processed to determine correspondence. Applications of the interface and system include a VCR, medical device, vehicle control system, audio device, environmental control system, securities trading terminal, and smart house. The system optionally includes an actuator for effecting the environment of operation, allowing closed-loop feedback operation and automated learning.

Ergonomic man-machine interface incorporating adaptive pattern recognition based control system

A complete system for the purchasing of goods or information over a computer network is presented. Merchant computers on the network maintain databases of digital advertisements that are accessed by buyer computers. In response to user inquiries, buyer computers retrieve and display digital advertisements from merchant computers. A digital advertisement can further include a program that is interpreted by a buyer's computer. The buyer computers include a means for a user to purchase the product described by a digital advertisement. If a user has not specified a means of payment at the time of purchase, it can be requested after a purchase transaction is initiated. A network payment system performs payment order authorization in a network with untrusted switching, transmission, and host components. Payment orders are backed by accounts in an external financial system network, and the payment system obtains account authorizations from this external network in real-time. Payment orders are signed with authenticators that can be based on any combination of a secret function of the payment order parameters, a single-use transaction identifier, or a specified network address.

Digital active advertising

Open network payment system for providing for authentication of payment orders based on a confirmation electronic mail message

Open network payment system for providing for real-time authorization of payment and purchase transactions

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a perfect system (200) for deal products or information through a computer network (67). SOLUTION: A seller's computer (63, 64) on the network (67) holds a data base of digital advertisements (65, 66) to be accessed by a purchaser's computer (61, 62). In response to an inquiry from a user, the purchaser's computer (61, 62) picks up and displays an advertisement from the seller's computer (63, 64). The digital advertisement may contain a program interpreted by the purchaser's computer (61, 62). A user can transact a product indicated by the advertisement through the purchaser's computer (61, 62). A payment form may be requested after the transaction is started. A payment system (300) acknowledges the payment, and achieves an acknowledgment of an account from an external banking system. A payment order is signed by authenticating means.

Open network sale system and method of acknowledging transaction on real-time basis

A complete system (200) for the purchasing of goods or information over a computer network (67) is presented. Merchant computers (63, 64) on the network (67) maintain databases of digital advertisements (65, 66) that are accessed by buyer computers (61, 62). In response to user inquiries, buyer computers (61, 62) retrieve and display advertisements from merchant computers (63, 64). A digital advertisement can include a program that is interpreted by a buyer's computer (61, 62). The buyer computers (61, 62) allow the users to purchase the product described by an advertisement. The form of payment can be requested after a purchase is initiated. A payment system (300) performs payment authorization. The payment system obtains account authorizations from an external financial system. Payment orders are signed with authenticators.

David K. Gifford

Papers

Digital active advertising

Open network payment system for providing for authentication of payment orders based on a confirmation electronic mail message

Open network payment system for providing for real-time authorization of payment and purchase transactions

Open network sale system and method of acknowledging transaction on real-time basis

Network based payment system and method for using such system