In a May 18, 2010 lawsuit with Apple Inc., Sony Corporation of America, Rhapsody International Inc., Napster LLC and others, Sharing Sound LLC alleged that the named defendants infringed Sharing Sound LLC’s patent on distributing musical products by a web site vendor over the internet. M·CAM analytics have identified other documents in the innovation space that may contain critical elements of enabling technologies that predate key aspects of the innovations described in the claims of the Sharing Sound patent. These documents include innovations both precedent to and concurrent with the highlighted Sharing Sound patent, samples of which are included in the tables below. Please note that the assignee shown is the assignee to which the patent was originally granted.