Inventor · Tecate Mission Road, CA, US

Thanh Ta

42Patents
18h-index
28Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 23, 1998 → Nov 14, 2014

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6931545B1 Systems and methods for integrity certification and verification of content consumption environments Electricity 107 Expired
US6519700B1 Self-protecting documents Physics 99 Expired
US7068787B1 System and method for protection of digital works Electricity 67 Expired
US6976009B2 Method and apparatus for assigning consequential rights to documents and documents having such rights Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 53 Expired
US6895503B2 Method and apparatus for hierarchical assignment of rights to documents and documents having such rights Physics 50 Expired
US6876984B2 Method and apparatus for establishing usage rights for digital content to be created in the future Electricity 45 Expired
US6859533B1 System and method for transferring the right to decode messages in a symmetric encoding scheme Electricity 36 Expired
US7206941B2 Method and apparatus for validating security components through a request for content Electricity 35 Expired
US7720767B2 Method and system to support dynamic rights and resources sharing Physics 32 Active
US7222104B2 Method and apparatus for transferring usage rights and digital work having transferrable usage rights Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 28 Expired
US6973445B2 Demarcated digital content and method for creating and processing demarcated digital works Physics 27 Expired
US7412605B2 Method and apparatus for variable encryption of data Electricity 26 Expired
US6763464B2 Self-protecting documents Physics 23 Expired
US7269735B2 Instance specific digital watermarks Electricity 23 Expired
US7299171B2 Method and system for processing grammar-based legality expressions Physics 22 Expired
US6963858B2 Method and apparatus for assigning consequential rights to documents and documents having such rights Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 20 Expired
US7237125B2 Method and apparatus for automatically deploying security components in a content distribution system Electricity 20 Expired
US6754642B2 Method and apparatus for dynamically assigning usage rights to digital works Physics 18 Expired
US7152046B2 Method and apparatus for tracking status of resource in a system for managing use of the resources Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 17 Expired
US8275709B2 Digital rights management of content when content is a future live event Electricity 17 Active
US7853531B2 Method and apparatus for supporting multiple trust zones in a digital rights management system Physics 16 Active
US7743259B2 System and method for digital rights management using a standard rendering engine Electricity 14 Expired
US7162633B2 Method and apparatus for hierarchical assignment of rights to documents and documents having such rights Physics 14 Expired
US7774280B2 System and method for managing transfer of rights using shared state variables Electricity 10 Active
US7725401B2 Method and apparatus for establishing usage rights for digital content to be created in the future Electricity 8 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.