52nd week of 2008 patent applcation highlights part 69 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20080320599 | RIGHTS EXPRESSION PROFILE SYSTEM AND METHOD USING TEMPLATES - A system and method for creating a rights expression for association with an item for use in a system for controlling use of the item in accordance with the rights expression, including specifying rights expression information indicating a manner of use of an item, the rights expression information including at least one element, the element having a variable and corresponding value for the variable; and performing an encoding process, including determining an identifier associated with a template corresponding to the rights expression information, extracting from the rights expression information the value for the variable corresponding to the element, and encoding a license adapted to be enforced on a device based on the variable and the identifier, the license including an identification of the template and the value for the variable. | 2008-12-25 |
20080320600 | SECURE DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND APPARATUS - A system for authenticating digital files includes an electronic device having means for handling digital files. The electronic device has a unique, hard encoded, device identifier. The system further includes a security key for interacting with the electronic device, the security key having a unique, hard encoded, key identifier. The electronic device further includes means for verifying a predetermined key-to-device association of the key identifier to the device identifier, means for refusing access to the electronic device upon unsuccessful key-to-device association verification, and means for associating both the device identifier and the key identifier with at least one of the handled digital files. | 2008-12-25 |
20080320601 | PROVIDING ACCESS RIGHTS TO PORTIONS OF A SOFTWARE APPLICATION - Techniques for providing access rights to different portions of a software application to one or more authorized users are described herein. An issuance license may be inserted into the software application that divides the software application into one or more portions and identifies, for each portion, one or more users that are authorized access to the portion. Each portion of the software application may then be encrypted using, for example, a different cryptographic key. When the software is executed, an end user license may then be requested that corresponds to a particular user and that entitles the particular user access to each portion of the software application that the issuance license identifies the particular user as being authorized to access. The end user license may then be used to decrypt each portion of the software application that the issuance license identifies the particular end user as being authorized to access. | 2008-12-25 |
20080320602 | Method And System For Authenticating A User - Method of authenticating a user in a heterogeneous computer environment. The method may include defining a set of unique prefixes, each prefix identifying a type of user repository; defining a set of abstract repository names, each abstract repository name identifying an address of a user repository; and authenticating the user in the heterogeneous computer environment by assigning a sequence comprising a unique prefix, a reference to an abstract repository name and a unique identifier for the user within the user repository indicated by the reference to the abstract repository name. | 2008-12-25 |
20080320603 | ACCESS RIGHT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, ACCESS RIGHT MANAGEMENT METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING ACCESS RIGHT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - An access right management apparatus, which includes: a management unit that manages permission and denial of access to an electronic document; a request reception unit that receives a request for an access right to access the electronic document; a determination unit that, when the request reception unit receives the request, determines whether or not the access to the electronic document is permitted to a requestor of the request based on the management unit; an access right provision unit that provides the access right to the requestor when the determination unit determines that the access to the electronic document is permitted to the requestor; and a changing unit that changes the denial of the access to the electronic document managed by the management unit to permission according to a history of provision of the access right to the requestor. | 2008-12-25 |
20080320604 | Controlling Program, Image Forming Apparatus and Print Controlling Method - There is described an image forming apparatus, which makes it possible to securely prevent the secret information from leaking out to unauthorized personnel. The apparatus includes: a display section to display a first document that includes secret information; an operating section to designate a concealing position in the first document and establish a disclosable range of the secret information, therefrom; a storage control section to store document data, designation positional information and disclosable range information, while correlating them with each other; an authenticating section to determine whether or not a user coincides with the disclosable range, based on identification information of the user; and a printing section to print either at least a copy of the first document, when the user coincides with the disclosable range, or copies of a second document, when the authenticating section determines that the user does not coincide with the disclosable range. | 2008-12-25 |
20080320605 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRACKING AND MANAGING RIGHTS FOR DIGITAL MUSIC - A method for digital rights management for a copyright work that is copied from device to device from among a plurality of devices, some of which are parent devices and some of which are child devices, and wherein a child device may be registered with a parent device, including copying a digital work from a parent device, P | 2008-12-25 |
20080320606 | Device for interfering with the pirating of movies and artistic mediums - The present invention is a system for discouraging the recording of a video image on a video recorder of a movie projected onto a display surface of a translucent movie screen. The system includes a plurality of IR projector lamps mounted behind the movie screen and adjacent to a back surface of the screen opposite the display surface. Each of the projector lamps is adapted and configured to generate an IR beam sufficient strong to transmit through the movie screen with sufficient intensity to create a bright spot of IR light on the display surface corresponding to the position of the IR projectors. The IR projectors are further adapted and configured such that the bright spots of IR light are sufficiently bright to appear clearly on the recorded video image. The IR projectors are releasably coupled to a control module contained in a housing via a plurality of connector elements and electrical lines. The IR projectors are preferably arranged in a grid pattern and the control module is adapted and configured to flash the IR projectors on in off such that a message can be displayed on the grid pattern. The system further includes a plurality of IR transmitting optical fibers coupled to an IR transmitter, the optical fibers being positioned over a display object, the IR transmitter and optical fibers being adapted and configured such that the optical fibers transmit IR ration over the display object. | 2008-12-25 |
20080320607 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUDITING SOFTWARE USAGE - Systems and methods are provided for auditing and selectively restricting software usage based on, for example, software copy counts or execution counts. In one embodiment, the method comprises verifying whether the serial number for a software installed on a computing device corresponds to one of recognized serial numbers, and calculating a copy count (or software execution count) for the serial number. In response to the copy count exceeding a defined upper limit, a limited unlock key may be sent to the device. The limited unlock key may allow the software to be executed on the device for a defined time period, a defined number of executions, and/or with at least one feature of the software disabled. | 2008-12-25 |
20080320608 | DATA PROTECTING APPARATUS AND DATA PROTECTING METHOD - In a vehicle audio apparatus, the detection switch is turned off when the lock claw is released from the lock-claw holder to open the front panel. The bi-directional switches are thereby turned off, disconnecting the data lines SD+and SD− between the USB interface unit of the main unit and the USB socket of the front panel. Thereafter, the front panel is opened, releasing the connector | 2008-12-25 |
20080320609 | Diabetes Model Animal - We prepared a transgene comprising human HB-EGF precursor cDNA, as a diphtheria toxin receptor gene, at the downstream of an insulin promoter, and introduced this transgene into a mouse fertilized egg, to produce a transgenic mouse of the present invention. In this mouse, human HB-EGF precursors are expressed specifically in islet beta cells, and by injection of diphtheria toxin, islet beta cells are selectively destroyed, resulting in that the mouse shows diabetes two or three days after the injection. This mouse can be utilized in screening and development of new medicines and therapy protocols for diabetes. | 2008-12-25 |
20080320610 | Transgenic fish with increased unsaturated fatty acid content - The present invention relates to fish with increased unsaturated fatty acid content by transfer of a fatty acid desaturase gene thereinto, and a production method of these fish with increased unsaturated fatty acid content. The fatty acid desaturase gene is one or more members selected from among Δ4 fatty acid desaturase gene, Δ5 fatty acid desaturase gene and Δ6 fatty acid desaturase gene, and it is preferable that these genes originate in a freshwater fish. It is preferable that the expression of a fatty acid desaturase gene originating in a freshwater fish is promoted by a β-actin promoter originating in medaka. By modifying the fatty acid metabolic pathway of fish, problems to be solved by the present invention may be to provide fish having a high vitality and a tolerance to handling and low temperature, which will enable the use of a vegetable fat or animal fat as a formula feed. Such vegetable fat is less expensive and can be easily controlled in qualities, thereby largely contributing to the reduction of cost and labor in fish nursery sites. | 2008-12-25 |
20080320611 | Rice Plant and Method for Producing the Same - The rice plant according to the present invention is a rice plant obtained by crossing the rice plant varieties “Koshihikari” with “Kasalath” and having improvement in both lodging resistance and decorticated grain size, wherein said rice plant has on the chromosome any one of base sequences selected from the groups consisting of: (i) a base sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, (ii) a base sequence having at least 80% identity with the base sequence of (i) above, and (iii) the base sequence of (i) above, in which one or several bases have been deleted, substituted, inserted or added, and wherein the remaining region of the chromosome is composed of chromosomes derived from Koshihikari. According to the present invention is to provide a new rice plant which maintains the good eating quality as a characteristic of Koshihikari and has excellent lodging resistance and large grains is provided. | 2008-12-25 |
20080320612 | Vascular-preferred promoter sequences and uses thereof - Plant polynucleotide promoter sequences are provided, together with DNA constructs comprising the inventive polynucleotide. Methods for using the inventive constructs for regulating gene expression are provided, along with transgenic plants comprising the inventive constructs. | 2008-12-25 |
20080320613 | MODULATING MYO-INOSITOL CATABOLISM IN PLANTS - Compositions and methods for modulating MIOX activity are provided. Such compositions include nucleotide sequences for novel MIOX sequences obtained from maize, amino acid sequences for the proteins encoded by the nucleotide sequences of the invention, and variants and fragments thereof. Methods of the invention involve introducing into a plant a nucleotide construct comprising a MIOX nucleotide sequence operably linked to a promoter that drives expression in a plant. Expression of the novel nucleotide sequences disclosed herein confers advantageous agronomic properties on a plant. Transformed plants, plant cells, and seeds are additionally provided. | 2008-12-25 |
20080320614 | Squash with Improved Disease Resistance - A squash plant having high level geminivirus resistance and a method for developing a squash plant having high resistance to geminvirus. | 2008-12-25 |
20080320615 | Plant seed assemblies comprising bacterial/fungal antagonists - A seed treated with a fungal/bacterial antagonist combination and a seed assembly comprising a seed and a fungal/bacterial antagonist combination. The fungal/bacterial antagonist combination comprises a | 2008-12-25 |
20080320616 | Elite Event A2407-12 and Methods and Kits for Identifying Such Event in Biological Samples - Tools are provided which allow rapid and unequivocal identification elite event A2704-12 in biological samples. | 2008-12-25 |
20080320617 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR GENETIC MODIFICATION OF PLANTS - Methods for the targeted integration of nucleotide sequences into a plant are provided. Transfer cassettes comprising nucleotide sequences of interest flanked by non-identical recombination sites are used to transform a plant comprising a target site. The target site contains at least a set of non-identical recombination sites corresponding to those on the transfer cassette. Exchange of the nucleotide sequences flanked by the recombination sites is effected by a recombinase. | 2008-12-25 |
20080320618 | Walnut rootstock 'VX211' - A new and distinct variety of walnut rootstock denominated ‘VX211’ is described. This new variety, ‘VX211’, can be propagated through micropropagation or rooted cuttings. ‘VX211’ has vigor and survivability in the nursery and in the orchard. It has reduced susceptibility to damage from nematodes ( | 2008-12-25 |
20080320619 | Walnut rootstock 'RX1' - A new and distinct variety of walnut rootstock denominated ‘RX1’ is described. This new variety, ‘RX1’, can be propagated through micropropagation. It has excellent survivability in the nursery and orchard. The new variety also has reduced susceptibility to damage from | 2008-12-25 |
20080320620 | Nectarine tree named 'Hortarine1' - A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree ( | 2008-12-25 |
20080320621 | Raspberry variety named 'Korpiko' - A new and distinct floricane fruiting red raspberry, | 2008-12-25 |
20080320622 | Raspberry plant named 'Adele' - A new and distinct floricane fruiting red raspberry, | 2008-12-25 |
20080320623 | Raspberry variety named 'Korere' - A new and distinct floricane fruiting red raspberry, | 2008-12-25 |
20080320624 | Raspberry plant named "Awaroa" - A new and distinct floricane fruiting red raspberry, | 2008-12-25 |
20080320625 | STRAWBERRY PLANT NAMED 'DRISSTRAWTHREE' - This invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of strawberry plant named ‘DrisStrawThree’. The new cultivar is primarily characterized by its large fruit size, heavy fruit production, and resistance to powdery mildew. | 2008-12-25 |
20080320626 | STRAWBERRY PLANT NAMED 'CRISTAL' - The present invention relates to a new and distinct strawberry variety. The varietal denomination of the new variety is ‘CRISTAL’. Among the characteristics which appear to distinguish the new variety from other varieties are a combination of traits which include inflorescence that appears above the foliage same size of calyx relative to corolla and abundant production of dark red colored, almost cylindrical shaped, and firm fruit, large fruit size, and early time of ripening. | 2008-12-25 |
20080320627 | Interspecific ilex hybrid designated 'Spartan' - A new and distinct variety of evergreen shrub holly distinguished in that it combines from three species ( | 2008-12-25 |
20080320628 | Variety of Phormium plant named 'FIT01" - A new and distinct cultivar of | 2008-12-25 |
20080320629 | Verbena plant named 'Scarlet' - A new and distinct variety of | 2008-12-25 |
20080320630 | Impatiens plant named 'Fify Lave07' | 2008-12-25 |