Publicly accessible delivery confirmation system for virtual digital download items

• US 7,895,298 B1
• Filed: 03/10/2009
• Issued: 02/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Gula Consulting Limited Liability Company (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Duane Allen Murray
• Inventors: Murray, Duane Allen
• Primary Examiner(s): Meky, Moustafa M
• Application Number:
  US12/381,387
• Time in Patent Office: 714 Days
• Field of Search: 709200-203, 709217-227
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/10 Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16 ; Digital rights management [DRM]

Abstract

A contents delivery confirmation system which includes a private client machine (3) that executes a browser (15) capable of requesting contents and a slave server machine (2) that executes a WWW server (12) capable of transmitting the contents requested by the private client machine (3) to the private client machine (3), a master server machine (1) that includes a delivery confirmation code issuance module (7) for issuing unique delivery confirmation codes for each request from slave server machines (2) in proxy for private client machines (3) requesting delivery of digital content, and browser (15) capable public client machines (4) used to view status and details of a delivery confirmation code. The master server machine (1) further includes a delivery confirmation receiving part (8) for receiving fault-tolerant delivery confirmation data containing the delivery confirmation code and updating the status of the delivery confirmation code from the slave server machine (2) when the slave server machine (2) completes delivery of a digital item to the private client machine (3). The master server machine (1) contains the status and details of all delivery confirmation codes for lookup by public client machines (4).

Claims

1. A method of confirming the delivery of digital items comprising:

(a) generating a unique delivery confirmation code from a master server machine,

(b) storing said delivery confirmation code in a digital medium on said master server machine,

(c) providing said delivery confirmation code to delivery confirmation request software from said master server machine to a slave server machine,

(d) providing a download method to an external network enabled device using said delivery confirmation code from said slave server machine,

(e) monitoring said download method between said slave server machine and said network enabled device to determine that all bytes have been sent from said slave server machine to said network enabled device,

(f) providing an update of said delivery confirmation code to delivery confirmation update software on said master server machine from said slave server machine,

(g) providing public access using delivery confirmation query software to view delivery confirmation status from external public client machines on said master server machine.

2. A machine confirming the delivery of digital items comprising:

(a) a master computer consisting of delivery confirmation code generation software, which generates unique delivery confirmation codes,

(b) said master computer using a storage method for storing said delivery confirmation codes,

(c) said master computer consisting of delivery confirmation code update software,

(d) said master computer consisting of public accessible delivery confirmation code query software,

(e) a slave computer consisting of delivery confirmation request software where network communication is done exclusively with the said master computer to obtain said unique delivery confirmation codes,

(f) a slave computer consisting of delivery agent software where network communication is done exclusively with the said master computer to update said delivery confirmation codes,

(g) a private computer consisting of file transfer capable software where network communication is done with the said slave computer using delivery agent software to transfer a digital item from said slave computer to said private computer,

(h) a public computer consisting of web accessible software where network communication is done with the said master computer and said public computer to obtain said delivery confirmation codes status.