ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,389, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to PEER DATA INC. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.).
"Systems and methods of digital rights management" was invented by Kiet Tran (Old Tappan, N.J.) and Benjamin Logan (Clearwater, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for digital rights management includes a peer-to-peer (P2P) network, a processor, and a memory, including instructions stored thereon, which when executed by the processor, cause the system to: transmit a first request for a dataset by a first device to a second device on the P2P network; authenticate the first request at the second device based on a predefined rule; generate an enc...