{
  "patent_number": "US 9934408",
  "country": "US",
  "title": "How a Local Server Decides to Save or Degrade Digital Content",
  "original_title": "Secure personal content server",
  "summary": "A system that checks if incoming digital files are authentic, fake, or unknown, and then either saves them, rejects them, or lowers their quality accordingly.",
  "what_it_does": "This patent describes a Local Content Server (LCS) that acts as a gatekeeper for digital media. When the server receives encrypted or scrambled content, a 'domain processor' inspects it for specific markers of authenticity. If the content is verified as authentic, it is stored in its original form. If the content is flagged as lacking authenticity, the server refuses to store it. If the content is ambiguous—meaning it has no clear authenticity markers—the server automatically degrades the quality of the file before saving it, ensuring that unauthorized or unverified media is less useful.",
  "what_it_does_not_cover": [
    "Does not cover systems that lack a mechanism for degrading content quality when authenticity is unknown.",
    "Does not cover general-purpose network routers that do not perform content-specific authenticity checks.",
    "Does not cover the specific encryption algorithms used to scramble the data.",
    "Does not cover content that is received in an unencrypted or unscrambled format."
  ],
  "filed": "2017-05-30",
  "granted": "2018-04-03",
  "expires": null,
  "status": "active",
  "holder": "Wistaria Trading Ltd",
  "holder_url": "https://patentbrief.org/company/wistaria-trading-ltd",
  "inventors": [
    {
      "name": "Mike W. Berry",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/mike-w-berry"
    },
    {
      "name": "Scott A. Moskowitz",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/scott-a-moskowitz"
    }
  ],
  "times_cited": 5,
  "tags": [
    "consumer_electronics",
    "telecommunications",
    "software"
  ],
  "abstract": "A local content server system (LCS) for creating a secure environment for digital content is disclosed, which system comprises: a communications port in communication for connecting the LCS via a network to at least one Secure Electronic Content Distributor (SECD), which SECD is capable of storing a plurality of data sets, is capable of receiving a request to transfer at least one content data set, and is capable of transmitting the at least one content data set in a secured transmission; a rewritable storage medium whereby content received from outside the LCS may be stored and retrieved; a domain processor that imposes rules and procedures for content being transferred between the LCS and devices outside the LCS; and a programmable address module which can be programmed with an identification code uniquely associated with the LCS. The LCS is provided with rules and procedures for accepting and transmitting content data.",
  "url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/9934408/windows-information-protection",
  "markdown_url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/9934408/windows-information-protection/md",
  "google_patents_url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US9934408",
  "relatedPatents": []
}