System and method for licensing content
CA 2366834 A1 · Owner: Fucarile, Lori J. · Inventors: Ward, Stephen A.; Fucarile, Lori J.; Murphy, Mary C.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
Described is a method and system for managing access to functionality provided by programs by embedding license information in the content (201) that needs that functionality. This facilitates the distribution of both revenue and nonrevenue generating content (201) on the Internet. A store (406) of license information can be maintained that identifies a licensee and an associated level of functionality for that licensee. This information defines an access policy for the licensee that determines what access to the functionality is granted to the licensee. The content (201) can then use the functionality of the programs to the extent allowed by the access policy.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed March 10, 2000. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended March 10, 2020.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by March 10, 2022.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
Timeline
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