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Systems and methods for matching, selecting, narrowcasting, and/or classifying based on rights management and/or other information    
United States Patent6112181   
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Inventor(s)Shear; Victor H. (Bethesda, MD); Van Wie; David M. (Sunnyvale, CA); Weber; Robert P. (Menlo Park, CA)
AbstractRights management information is used at least in part in a matching, narrowcasting, classifying and/or selecting process. A matching and classification utility system comprising a kind of Commerce Utility System is used to perform the matching, narrowcasting, classifying and/or selecting. The matching and classification utility system may match, narrowcast, classify and/or select people and/or things, non-limiting examples of which include software objects. The Matching and Classification Utility system may use any pre-existing classification schemes, including at least some rights management information and/or other qualitative and/or parameter data indicating and/or defining classes, classification systems, class hierarchies, category schemes, class assignments, category assignments, and/or class membership. The Matching and Classification Utility may also use at least some rights management information together with any artificial intelligence, expert system, statistical, computational, manual, or any other means to define new classes, class hierarchies, classification systems, category schemes, and/or assign persons, things, and/or groups of persons and/or things to at least one class.
   














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Inventor     Shear; Victor H. (Bethesda, MD); Van Wie; David M. (Sunnyvale, CA); Weber; Robert P. (Menlo Park, CA)
Owner/Assignee     InterTrust Technologies Corporation (Santa Clara, CA)
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Publication Date     August 29, 2000
Application Number     08/965,185
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Filing Date     November 6, 1997
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Examiner     Voeltz; Emanuel Todd
Assistant Examiner     Dixon; Thomas A
Attorney/Law Firm     Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P.
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