Amazon has landed a U.S. patent for the technology...
Amazon has landed a U.S. patent for the technology to resell digital goods, according to the Patent and Trademark Office website (http://1.usa.gov/Xp49L7). According to the patent’s abstract, the secondary electronic marketplace would include digital objects such as “e-books, audio, video,…
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[and] computer applications.” Through the marketplace, users could transfer their digital object to another user’s “personalized data store when permissible and the used digital content is deleted from the originating user’s personalized data store,” the abstract said: Additionally, digital objects could have “a threshold number of moves or downloads,” after which “the ability to move may be deemed impermissible and suspended or terminated."