Managing Rights Management

Western Digital and Sony DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Western Digital, the first application discloses techniques for a personal multimedia content archive. Assigned to Sony (JP), the second application discloses techniques for digital recording with copy protection.

Two Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent application. Today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to IBM, the first application discloses techniques for reducing the value of a browser fingerprint. The second application discloses a scalable segment-based data de-duplication system and method for incremental backups, no assignee given.

Rovi and D-Box Technologies Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Rovi, the first application discloses techniques for filtering repeated content using digital fingerprints. Assigned to D-Box Technologies, the second application discloses techniques for media recognition and synchronisation to a motion signal using digital fingerprinting.

Samsung and General Instrument DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Samsung (KR), the first application discloses interoperability techniques for selecting a specific DRM service from among multiple services. Assigned to General Instrument, the second application discloses techniques for cross-domain DRM registration.

Fasoo and Intertrust DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern digital rights management. Assigned to Fasoo (KR), the first application discloses techniques for protecting digital media contents. Assigned to Intertrust, the second application discloses techniques for governing content rendering, protection, and management applications.

Verizon Fingerprinting and Intrasonics Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Verizon, the first application discloses techniques for universal file naming for personal media over content delivery networks. Assigned to Intrasonics (LU), the second application discloses techniques for data embedding.

SAP and Managed Audience Share Solutions DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights managment. Assigned to SAP (DE), the first application discloses techniques for generating constraints for use in access control. Assigned to Managed Audience Share Solutions LLC, the second application discloses techniques for managing organized binary advertising asset markets.

NBC Universal and Microsoft Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the UPSTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to NBC Universal, the first application discloses techniques for digital watermark detection in 2D-3D content conversion. Assigned to Microsoft, the second application discloses the use of a watermark to identify a leak source.

Thales and Wistaria Trading Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Thales (FR), the first application discloses techniques for embedding a binary sequence in a compressed video stream. Apparently assigned to Wistaria Trading, the second application discloses optimization methods for the insertion, protection, and detection of digital watermarks in digitized data.

Micorosoft and Sony Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Microsoft, the first application discloses a claim based content reputation service. Assigned to Sony, the second application discloses techniques for recognizing compact discs and issuing corresponding credits.

Morega Systems and General Instrument DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Morega Systems, the first application discloses a distributed digital rights management node module. Assigned to General Instrument, the second application discloses techniques for digital rights management with irregular network access.

Broadcom and Digimarc Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Broadcom, the first application discloses techniques for supporting watermark embedding in multimedia system-on-chips. Apparently assigned to Digimarc, the second application discloses techniques for signal processing of audio and video data, including assessment of embedded data.

Two DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Digital Chocolate, the first application discloses networked computer game systems and methods with social network functions. The second application discloses techniques for determining copyright infringement and collecting royalties," no assignee given.

Fox and Fujitsu DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Fox Entertainment, the first application discloses techniques for media asset/content security control and management, especially with respect to advertising. Assigned to Fujitsu (JP), the second application discloses techniques for information processing  and use right collective management.

VMWare Fingerprinting and DIRECTV Watermarking Patent Appllications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to VMWare, the first application discloses techniques for rapid updating of cloud applications. Assigned to DIRECTV, the second applicaiton discloses techniques for remotely inserting watermark into encrypted compressed video bitstream.

Oki Data and Monterey Group One DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Oki Data, the first application disclose a distributed peripheral device management system. Assigned to Monterey Group One, the second application discloses techniques for providing secure information via multiple authorized channels to authenticated users and user devices.

Affine Systems and Navy Fingerprinting Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Affine Systems, the first application discloses techniques for matching an advertisement to a video. Assigned to the Secretary of the Navy, the second application discloses for radio-frequency fingerprinting as a security layer in RFID devices.

Two Sony Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital fingerprinting and both are assigned to Sony (JP). The first application discloses media fingerprinting for social networking. The second application discloses media fingerprinting for content determination and retrieval.

Rovi and Philips Fingerprinting Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Rovi, the first application discloses techniques for searching text and other types of content by using a frequency domain. Assigned to Philips (NL), the second applicatoin discloses techniques making use of fingerprinting for communications between two devices.

Ebyline and Ia Ia media DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Ebyline, the first applicaiton discloses an online marketplace portal for content publishers and content creators. Assigned to Ia Ia media, the second application discloses a network based digital rights management system.

Auckland Uniservices Watermarking and Dolby Fingerprinting Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications concern digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Dolby Laboratories, the first application discloses media fingerprints that reliably correspond to media content with projection of moment invariants. Assigned to Auckland Uniservices (AZ), the second application discloses software watermarking techniques.

Two Irdeto Conditonal Access Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of conditional access systems typically used in cable, satellite, and IPTV systems and both are assigned to Irdeto (NL). The first application discloses techniques for disabling a cleartext control word loading mechanism in a conditional access system. The second application discloses broadcasting variants of digital signals in a conditional access system.

Microsoft and Toshiba DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Microsoft, the first application discloses domain management techniqjues for digital media. Assigned to Toshiba (JP), the second application discloses an AV communication control circuit for realizing copyright protection with respect to radio LAN.

CUHK and Philips Digital Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to the City University of Hong Kong, the first application discloses circuitry for watermarking encoding and decoding. Assigned to Philips, the second applicaiton discloses techniques for watermarked based physical layer authentication method of transmitters in OFD communications systems.

Two Digital Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Extensis Inc., the first application discloses techniques for preventing unauthorized font linking. The second application discloses techniques for electronic publishing and distribution of printed sheet music, no assignee given.

STM and IBM DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of Today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to STMicroelectronics, the first application discloses techniques including DRM for remote media access. Assigned to IBM, the second application disclose techniques for the procurement and audit of digital rights management data.

Dolby Fingerprinting and KT Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Dolby, the first application discloses techniques for content identification and quality monitoring. Assigned to KT Corporation (KR), the second applicaiton discloses techniques for inserting a digital watermark.

Two Digital Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Thomson Licensing, the first application discloses techniques for protecting digital content against minority collusion attacks. The second application discloses techniques for generating and verifying an electronic watermark, no assignee given.

Two ETRI Conditional Access Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications are assigned to the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (KR), and both deal with aspects of conditional access systems. The first application discloses a DCAS headend system and method for processing error of secure micro client software. The second application discloses techniques fo downloading conditional access images.

Two Rovi Fingerprinting Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotllight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting of audio and both are assigned to Rovi. The first application discloses techniques for rolling audio recognition. The second application discloses  multi-stage lookup techniques for rolling audio recognition.

Apple and McAfee Software Obfuscation-related Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of todays Spotlight Applications concern aspects of software obsfucation as a security technique. Assigned to Apple, the first application discloses techniques for software data reference obfuscation. Assigned to McAfee, the second application discloses techniques for obfuscated malware detection.

Fujitsu and Seiko Epson DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Fujitsu (JP), the first of today's applications discloses techniques for access rights determination and enforcement. Assigned to Seiko Epson (JP), the second applcation discloses techniques for access rights arbitration.

ETRI and Nagravision Conditional Access Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of conditional access systems used primarily in cable and satellite television distribution systems.

NCR and Samsung DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications deal with aspects of digital rights management. Making an infrequent appearence in this pages, the first application is assigned to NCR and discloses techniques for secure distribution of protected content. Assigned to Samsung (KR), the second application discloses techniques for updating data.

Gracenote and IBM Fingerprinting Patent Applications

[bonus installment] On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pendng patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Gracenote, the first application discloses techniques for generating and detecting fingerprints for synchronizing audio and video. Assigned to IBM, the second application discloses techniques for non-intrusive acoustic monitoring for equipment diagnostic and fault reporting.

IBM and Sony Ericsson DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to IBM, the first application discloses techniques for DRM. Assigned to Sony Ericsson, the second application discloses techniques for content aging.

Arbitron and Fraunhofer Fingerprinting Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital fingerprinting. Apparently assigned to Arbitron, the first application discloses distributed audience measurement techniques that at least in part make use of digital fingerprinting. Apparently assigned to Fraunhofer (DE), the second application discloses techniques for calculating a fingerprint of an audio signal, synchronizing, and for  characterizing a test audio signal.

Samsung and LG DRM Patent Applications

On thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Samsung, the first application discloses techniques for managing DRM content. Assigned to LC Electronics, the second application discloses a digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system.

SAP and Sun Fingerprinting Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to SAP (DE), the first application discloses techniques including digital fingerprinting for leveraging memory similarity during live migrations. Assigned to Sun Microsystems, the second applicatiion discloses  techniques for data sharing and recovery within a network of untrusted storage devices using data object fingerprinting.

Huawei and ATT DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Huawei (CN), the first application discloses techniques for processing rights objects. Assigned to AT&T, the second application discloses techniques for managing access to service in an access point.

Entersect and Rovi Fingerprinting Patent Aplications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today' Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Entersect Technologies (ZA), the first application discloses techniques for secure transaction authentication. Assigned to Rovi, the second application discloses techniques for adjusting recorder timing.

Motorola and Nokia DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Motorola, the first application discloses techniques for enforcing digital rights management rules. Assigned to Nokia (FI), the second application discloses techniques for providing context access with property and interface obfuscation.

General Instrument and Motorola DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to General Instrument, the first application discloses techniques using digital rights management protection for content identified using a social tv service. Assigned to Motorola, the second application discloses techniques for dynamic, seamless security in communication protocols.

Adobe Fingerprinting and Verance Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Adobe, the first application discloses techniques incorporating fingerprinting for fast computation of content recommendations. Assigned to Verance, the second application discloses techniques for  remote control signaling using audio watermarks.

IBM Watermarking and Civolution Fingerprinting Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to IBM, the first application discloses techniques for virtual world embedded security watermarking.  Assigned to Civolution (NL), the second application discloses techniques that at least in part entail fingerprinting for generating statistics of popular content.

General Instrument and ZTE Conditional Access Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of conditional access systems. Assigned to General Instrument, the first application discloses techniques for processing, handling, and forwarding conditional access messages to devices. Assigned to ZTE Corporation, the second application discloses techniques for updating plug-in of multimedia broadcast conditional access.

ConDel and Rovi DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to ConDel (TW), the first application discloses techniques for locally generating license and activating DRM agent. Assigned to Rovi, the second application discloses techniques for tunable distribution of content.

Intertrust and Samsung DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO published new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Intertrust, the first application (one of four Intertrust continuations published today) disclose trusted infrastructure support systems, methods and techniques for secure electronic commerce electronic transactions and rights management. Assigned to Samsung (KR), the second application discloses techniques for DRM content management.

Nokia Watermarking and All Media Guide Fingerprinting Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Nokia (FI), the first application discloses techniques for controlled copying and moving of content between devices and domains based on conditional encryption of content key depending on usage state. Assigned to All Media Guide, the second application discloses techniques for content recognition and synchronization on a television or consumer electronics device.

Websense and Dolby Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Websense, the first application discloses techniques for efficient detection of fingerprinted data and information. Assignd to Dolby, the second application discloses techniques for associating information with media content.