US Patent Issued to Nytell Software on June 17 for "System and method for authorized digital content distribution" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,244, issued on June 17, was assigned to Nytell Software LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"System and method for authorized digital content distribution" was invented by David J. Marples (Notts, Great Britain) and John R. Wullert II (Martinsville, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital content distribution system uses a Digital Rights Management Controller that performs a set of arbitrary tests against the transfer request from one user to another such as user A to user B. Assuming these tests are successful, the DRM sends an encryption key to transferring user A. This encryption key E is taken from a table of encryption key/hash pairs ...