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Reproducing apparatus and information distribution system

US6868494B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateMar 8, 2000
Grant dateMar 15, 2005
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Expiry dateMar 8, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F3/0664
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A reproducing apparatus operable to move data that is coded and managed for copyright protection after evaluation an encryption key and permitting its movement based on a result of the evaluation, to copy data that is recorded in a server to a terminal apparatus, and, cause the terminal apparatus itself to reproduce the data and, where a terminal apparatus is connected to the server to, render data on the server reproducible.

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