CA2467998A1 - System for tracking end-user electronic content usage - Google Patents

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CA2467998A1
CA2467998A1 CA002467998A CA2467998A CA2467998A1 CA 2467998 A1 CA2467998 A1 CA 2467998A1 CA 002467998 A CA002467998 A CA 002467998A CA 2467998 A CA2467998 A CA 2467998A CA 2467998 A1 CA2467998 A1 CA 2467998A1
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John Dorak
Edgar Downs
George Gregory Gruse
Marco Hurtado
Christopher Lehman
Jeffrey Lotspiech
Cesar Medina
Kenneth Milsted
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Level 3 Communications LLC
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International Business Machines Corporation
John Dorak
Edgar Downs
George Gregory Gruse
Marco Hurtado
Christopher Lehman
Jeffrey Lotspiech
Cesar Medina
Kenneth Milsted
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A system for tracking usage of digital content on user devices. Electronic stores coupled to a network sell licenses to play digital content data to users. Content players, which receive from the network the licensed content data, are used to play the licensed content data.
Additionally, a logging site that is coupled to the network tracks the playing of the content data. In particular, the logging site receives play information from the network, and the play information includes the number of times that the content data has been played by the associated content player.
Also provided is a method for tracking usage of digital content on user devices. According to the method, a license to play digital content data is sold to a user, and the licensed content data is transmitted to a content player for the user. Further, information is transmitted to a logging site whenever the content data is played by the content player or copied from the content player to an external medium so that usage of the licensed content data can be tracked.
CA002467998A 1998-08-13 1999-08-12 System for tracking end-user electronic content usage Expired - Lifetime CA2467998C (en)

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US09/133,519 1998-08-13
US09/133,519 US6226618B1 (en) 1998-08-13 1998-08-13 Electronic content delivery system
US09/152,756 US6574609B1 (en) 1998-08-13 1998-09-14 Secure electronic content management system
US09/152,756 1998-09-22
US09/177,096 1998-10-22
US09/177,096 US6389538B1 (en) 1998-08-13 1998-10-22 System for tracking end-user electronic content usage
CA002338414A CA2338414C (en) 1998-08-13 1999-08-12 Secure electronic content management system

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US10979499B2 (en) 2002-02-14 2021-04-13 Level 3 Communications, Llc Managed object replication and delivery
US9762692B2 (en) 2008-04-04 2017-09-12 Level 3 Communications, Llc Handling long-tail content in a content delivery network (CDN)
US10924573B2 (en) 2008-04-04 2021-02-16 Level 3 Communications, Llc Handling long-tail content in a content delivery network (CDN)
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