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Apparatus for tracking the distribution of media content

US8621066B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. · US

Inventors

Kermit Hal Purdy · Bernardsville, US
Brian S. Amento · Morristown, US
Larry Stead · Upper Montclair, US
Alicia Abella · Morristown, US
Eric Cheung · New York, US
Mukesh Nathan · Chicago, US
Luis Zaman · Haslett, US
Ramon Caceres · New York, US

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 12, 2009
Grant date	Dec 31, 2013
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 13, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F16/48
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a recipient client device having a controller operable to receive and store a media object from an originating device, track locations where the media object has been since the media object has been stored in the recipient client device, track identifiers associated with a device or a user that has accessed the media object at the locations, and track and store annotations about the media object by the device or the user that accessed the media object. Other embodiments are disclosed.

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