Managing Rights Management

Thomson Watermarking and Intel Fingerprinting Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications.Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking, which continue to be "hot topics." Assigned to Thomson, the first application discloses techniques for recovering watermarking information from a bitstream. Assigned to Intel, the second application discloses techniques for using a content fingerprint filter.

SanDisk and Huawei DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concerns aspects of DRM. Apparently assigned to SanDisk, the first application discloses techniques for improving accuracy of a time estimate used in digital rights management (DRM) license validation.

Nokia and Embarq DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of DRM. Assigned to Nokia, the first application discloses techniques for distributing service information and digital rights for broadcast data. Assigned ti Embarq Holdings, the second application discloses techniques for providing wireless security surveillance services accessible via a telecommunications device.

Digimarc and IBM Digital Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Digimarc, the first application discloses techniques for using watermarks with images or video. Assigned to IBM, the second application discloses techniques for generating a watermark signal.

ContentGuard and Wisteria Digital Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications address various aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to ContentGuard, the first application discloses multi-stage techniques for watermarking. Assigned to Wisteria Trading (Scott Moskovitz {hi Scott}), the second application discloses techniques for optimizing the insertion, protection, and detection of digital watermarks in digital data.

Two DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of DRM. Assigned to ConDel, the first application discloses techniques for performing interoperable digital rights management among different operating system platforms. The second application discloses techniques for copyright detection and protection, no assignee given.

Two Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications.Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern the use of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to TECsys Development, the first application discloses techniques for using metadata fingerprint analysis for monitoring, alerting, and remediation. The second application discloses techniques using digital fingerprints for managing, reviewing, comparing and detecting data on a wide area network, no assignee given.

LG Electronics and Microsoft DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of DRM. Assigned to LG Electronics (KR), the first application discloses techniques for sharing rights objects in digital rights management. Assigned to Microsoft, the second application discloses techniques for accessing protected content in a rights-management architecture.

Sun and Microsoft Fingerprinting Patent Applications

Happy Thanksgiving to all. On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Sun, the first application discloses techniques for media fingerprint indexing.  Assigned to Microsoft, the second application discloses techniques for verifying the integrity of remote data using digital fingerprinting.

Mitsubishi Watermarking and Thomson Fingerprinting Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications concern digital watermarking and fingerprinting. Assigned to Mitsubishi Electric (JP), the first application discloses techniques for electronic watermarking embedding and detection. Assigned to Thomson, the second application discloses techniques for object oriented fingerprinting of digital videos.

Apple And NEC DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of DRM. Assigned to Apple, the first application discloses techniques for protecting audio and video on media playback devices. Assigned to NEC, the second application discloses protecting digital content on mobile devices.

Two Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

 On Thurdays the USPTO publishers pending patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Express Digital Graphics, the first application discloses techniques for creative works registration and ownership determinations using digital fingerprints. Assigned to Yahoo, the second application discloses techniques for content fingerprinting for video and/or images.

Hyrax Media And Microsoft DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today"s Spotlight Patent Applications concern aspects of DRM. Assigned to Hyrax Media (IL), the first application discloses techniques for legitimate lending and sharing of copyrighted content items over a network. Assigned to Microsoft, the second application discloses techniques using referral lists for tracking distributed content.

Fingerprinting and Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Akamai, the first application discloses a dynamic multimedia fingerprinting system. The second application discloses techniques for digital watermarking.

Two Watermarking Patent Applications From Thomson

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications.Both of today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital watermarking and both are assigned to Thomson. The first application discloses techniques for watermarking an audio or video signal with watermark data using a spread spectrum. The second application discloses copy protection techniques for digital data stored on a medium.

Rovi Watermarking and Philips Fingerprinting Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital watermarking and fingerprinting. Assigned to Rovi (nee Macrovision), the first application discloses techniques for watermarking and distributing content. Assigned to Philips (NL), the second application discloses techniques for selecting content from a stream of video or audio data.

Wisteria Trading and Thomson Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thusdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Wisteria Trading (hi Scott), the first application discloses stenographic {"hidden writing" or watermarking) techniques for establishing the ownership of copyrighted multimedia. Assigned to Thomson, the second application discloses techniques for video watermarking.

Thomson and Xerox Digital Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Thomson (FR), the first application discloses techniques for time-stamped watermarking. Assigned to Xerox, the second application discloses techniques for the generation of correlation-based digital watermarks using uniform-rosette color halftoning.

Protected Data Path and BitTorrent (P2P) Related DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of DRM. The first application discloses techniques for validating protected intra-system interconnects for DRM, no assignee given. The second application discloses techniques for digital rights protection in BitTorrent-like P2P systems, assigned to George Mason University.

Yahoo and Microsoft DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of DRM and copyright protection. Assigned to Yahoo!, the first application discloses techniques for detecting the source of media content with application to business rules. Assigned to Microsoft, the second application discloses an educational content presentation system.

Two DRM Patent Applications From Seagate

On Thursday's the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of DRM and both are assigned to Seagate Technologies. The first application discloses techniques for anchor point-based digital content protection with an escrow anchor point. The second application discloses techniques for posted move in anchor point-based digital rights management

AT&T and Thomson Digital Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to AT&T, the first application discloses techniques for retrieving a watermark within a signal.  Assigned to Thomson, the second application discloses techniques for determining whether or not a reference pattern is present in a received and possibly watermarked signal.

Xerox Watermarking and Sony Fingerprinting Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications concern watermarking and fingerprinting, which continue to be hot topics. Assigned to Xerox, the first application discloses techniques for UV encryption via intelligent halftoning. Assigned to Sony (Great Britain), the second application dicloses techniques for detecting fingerpirnt code words.

Canon and Konica Minolta Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern various aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Canon (JP), the first application discloses a line spacing watermark. Assigned to Konica Minolta, the second application discloses techniques for embedding data in original image with reduced effect on visibility of original image.

Philips Digital Watermarking and Fingerprinting Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital watermarking and fingerprinting. Both applications are assigned to Philips (NL). The first application discloses recoverable marks for films. The second application discloses  techniques for fingerprinting, identifying, and synchronizing video.

Quallcomm and Searete DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications address various aspects of DRM. Assigned to Qualcomm, the first application discloses techniques for managing policies for time-based licenses on mobile devices. Assigned to Searete, the second application discloses control techniques for object production rights.

Two DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of DRM. The first application discloses techniques for protecting unprotected content, no assignee given. The second application discloses techniques for dealing with digital rights management among apparatuses, also no assignee given.

Philips and Sony DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of DRM. Assigned to Philips, the first application discloses digital rights management for retrieving medical data from a server. Assigned to Sony, the second application discloses techniques for video upscaling.

Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications deal with the use of digital watermarking. The first application discloses techniques relating to a watermark generating circuit. The second application discloses a digital watermarking CMOS sensor.

Dolby 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 Dolby Labs, the first application discloses techniques for replacement based watermarking. Assigned to Philips, the second application discloses techniques for watermark embedding using lookup tables.

Avid and Vital Source DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of DRM. Assigned to Avid, the first application discloses a media editing system using digital rights management metadata to limit import, editing and export operations performed on temporal media. Assigned to Vital Source Technologies, the second application discloses techniques for providing digital rights management of protected content.

Two Watermarking Patent Applications From Thomson

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of Digital watermarking and both are assigned to Thomson (FR). The first application discloses techniques for digital cinema projector watermarking. The second application discloses techniques for reading digital tatooing.

Fingerprinting and Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications concern various aspects of digital fingerprinting and watermarking. Assigned to Barracuda, the first application discloses techniques for Peer-to-Peer traffic control using fingerprinting. Assigned to the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, the second application discloses techniques for reversible image watermarking based on integer to integer wavelet transforms.

Microsoft and Alcatel Lucent DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern DRM. Assigned to Microsoft, the first application discloses techniques for conditional access to digital rights management conversion. Assigned to Alcatel Lucent (FR), the second application discloses techniques for network-based DRM enforcement.

DirecTV and LG Conditional Access Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern various aspects of conditional access systems commonly found in cable and satellite broadcast systems. Assigned to DirecTV, the first application discloses techniques for securely requesting download of content to a user device from another device.  Assigned to LG Electronics (KR), the second application discloses a digital broadcasting system and method of processing data.

Watermarking Related Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern the use of digital watermarks. The first of today's applications discloses techniques for rights protection of datasets with dataset structure preservation, no assignee given. The second application discloses ways of incorporating additional information into main information through electronic watermarking technique, assigned to Yamaha (JP).

Oracle and Yahoo Digital Fingerprint Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Both of todays Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital fingerprints. Assigned to Oracle, the first application discloses techniques for fraud monitoring and detection using application fingerprinting. Assigned to Yahoo, the second application discloses techniques for providing multimedia content optimization.

Two Watermarking Patent Applications From Thomson

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Assigned to Thomson Licensing, both of today's Spotlight Applications deal with aspects of watermarking. The first application addresses techniques for watermarking films. The second application addresses techniques for digital watermarking.

Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Booth of today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital fingerprinting. The first application discloses techniques for advertisement detection and substitution. The second application discloses techniques for restoring program information for clips of broadcast programs shared online, no assignee given.

Philips and Digimarc Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Philips, the first application discloses a renewable watermark for theatrical content. Assigned to Digimac, the second application discloses techniques for the authentication of physical and electronic media objects using digital watermarks.

Samsung and Ericsson DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of DRM. Assigned to Samsung (KR), the first application discloses techniques for managing digital rights management rights objects. Assigned to Ericsson, the second application discloses a technique for registering a device with a rights issuer system.

Two Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications address various aspects of digital fingerprinting. The first application discloses techniques for applying content categorization of images. Assigned to Cortica, Ltd (IL), the second application discloses techniques for signature generation for multimedia deep-content-classification by a large-scale matching system.

Conditional Access and Copy Protection Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications concern various aspects of conditional access and copy protection systems. Assigned to DirectTV, the first application discloses techniques for forming a formatted content stream. The second application discloses techniques for copy protection of analog signals from computing devices, no assignee given.

Intertrust and IBM DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Both of today Spotlight Applications concern various aspects of DRM. Assigned to Intertrust, the first of today's applications discloses techniques for dynamic media zones. Assigned to IBM, the second application discloses techniques to procure and audit digital rights management event data.

Digital Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Philips, the first application discloses techniques for watermark detection. Assigned to The Hong Kong University Of Science And Technology (HK), the second application discloses techniques for loss-less watermarking.

Vudu and LG Conditional Access Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Patent Applications address various aspects of conditional access systems. Assigned to Vudu (nee Vvond), the first application discloses techniques for access control of media services over an open network. Assigned to LG Electronics (KR), the second application discloses a host device interface with a point of deployment (POD) and a method of processing broadcast data.

Interoperable DRM and Multi-device DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications address various aspects of DRM. The first application discloses interoperable DRM systems, no assignee given. Assigned to Microsoft, the second application discloses portable digital rights for multiple devices.

NetBarrage and Samsung DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight applications address various aspects of DRM and copyright protection in mobile contexts. Assigned to NetBarrage (IL), the first application discloses a Peer to Peer file sharing mobile system with copyright protection. Assigned to Samsung, the second application discloses techniques for managing digital rights management contents in portable terminal.

Verance Watermarking and Thomson Fingerprinting Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications address various aspects of watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Verance, the first application discloses system reactions to the detection of embedded watermarks in a digital host content." Apparently assigned to Thomson (FR), the second application discloses techniques fro computing a fingerprint of a video sequence.

Microsoft and AT&T DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern digital rights management. Assigned to Microsoft, the first application discloses techniques for domain management for digital media. Assigned to  AT&T, the second application discloses techniques for DRM.