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Protecting content from unauthorized reproduction

  • US 7,346,560 B1
  • Filed: 06/29/2001
  • Issued: 03/18/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A computer-implemented system for protecting from unauthorized reproduction data associated with one or more products that is communicated over a communications network, the system comprising one or more servers collectively operable to:

  • receive from a buyer computer a search query for data associated with one or more products, the search query specifying one or more search criteria;

    communicate, in response to receiving the search query from the buyer computer, the search query to one or more databases in which data associated with one or more products is stored;

    receive data associated with one or more products matching the search criteria specified in the search query received from the buyer computer, the data having been collected in response to communicating the search query to the one or more databases in which data associated with one or more products is stored;

    communicate, in response to receiving the data associated with the one or more products matching the search criteria specified in the search query received from the buyer computer, to the buyer computer the data for the matching products; and

    communicate, along with the data for the matching products, a software component to the buyer computer, the software component operable to;

    provide a user associated with the buyer computer access to the data for less than all of the matching products such that the user associated with the buyer computer can only access less than all of the matching products; and

    disable one or more tools supported at the buyer computer for reproducing the data for the matching products.

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