Managing Rights Management

Two Digital Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Digital watermarking continues to be a hot topic. Assigned to the Fraunhofer Institute (DE), the first of today's Spotlight Patents concerns techniques for embedding watermarks. Assigned to the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (KR), the second patent concerns techniques for using watermarks for controlling storage and playback of digital broadcasting contents.

Cisco and NTT Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Cisco, the first patent addresses techniques for watermarking a media stream using coded macroblock types. Assigned to NTT (JP), the second patent addresses techniques for embedding and for detecting digital watermarks.

IBM and Boeing Digital Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to IBM, the first patent addresses data watermarks created by using an uneven sampling period. Assigned to Boeing, the second patent addresses techniques for digital watermarking of picture identity documents using Eigenface vectors of Eigenface facial features of the document facial image as the watermark key.

Two Digital Watermarking Patents From Scott Moskowitz

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital watermarking and both have Scott Moskowitz as an inventor (hi Scott). The first patent addresses techniques for utilizing data reduction in steganographic and cryptographic systems. The second patent addresses optimization methods for the insertion, protection and detection of digital watermarks in digital data.

Sample Digital and Sony Issued DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of DRM. Assigned to Sample Digital Holdings, the first patent addresses using DRM for media content collaboration throughout a media production process. Assigned to Sony (JP), the second patent addresses techniques for controlling distribution of content to network devices.

Three Digimarc Digital Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Several digital watermarking patents issued today, including three from Digimarc. The first of today's Spotlight Patents concerns watermark orientation signals conveying payload data. The second concerns techniques for processing text found in images. The third concerns techniques for watermark encoding and decoding.

IBM Fingerprinting and Digimarc Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO publishes new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital fingerprinting and watermarking. Assigned to IBM, the first patent concerns the use of fingerprinting in tracing and identifying piracy in wireless digital rights management system. Assigned to Digimarc, the second patent concerns techniques using watermarking for monitoring internet dissemination of image, video, and/or audio files.

BayTSP Fingerprinting and Digimarc Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital fingerprinting and watermarking. Assigned to BayTSP.com, the first patent concerns techniques for managing, reviewing, comparing and detecting data on a wide area network. Assigned to Digimarc, the second patent concerns techniques for digital watermarking compressed video captured from aerial sensors.

Two Digital Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO publishes new patents. Digital watermarking continues to be a hot topic. Two more patents assigned to Wisteria Trading (Scott Moskovitz) issued today (7,647,502 and 7,647,503). The first of today's Spotlight Patents concerns character and vector graphics watermark for structured electronic documents security, assigned to the University of Geneva (CH). Toshiba also had two watermarking patents issued (7,646,882 and 7,646,883), the abstract for the first is below.

Widevine and Motorola Issued DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address various aspects of DRM. Assigned to Widevine, the first patent concerns techniques for securely providing content viewable on a secure device. Assigned to Motorola, the second patent concerns techniques for for recording and editing digital broadcast content.

LG Electronics and Microsoft DRM Issued Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of DRM. Assigned to LG Electronics (KR), the first patent concerns a mobile device for preventing illegal distribution of digital data contents. Assigned to Microsoft, the second patent concerns a digital rights management scheme for an on-demand distributed streaming system.

Microsoft and Toshiba Digital Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern digital watermarking. Assigned to Microsoft, the first patent addresses techniques for the derivation and quantization of robust non-local characteristics for blind watermarking. Assigned to Toshiba (JP), the second patent addresses digital watermarking techniques.

Panasonic and Microsoft DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents deal with aspects of DRM. Assigned to Panasonic, the first patent concerns techniques for content distribution management. Assigned to Microsoft, the second patent concerns a secure server plug-in architecture for digital rights management systems.

Thomson and Alcatel-Lucent Digital Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Digital watermarking continues to be a hot topic. Yesterday, two patents dealing with applications of digital watermarking were each issued to Thomson (7,630,511, 7,631,358) and to Alcatel-Lucent (7,630,512, 7,630,509). Issued to Thomson, the first of today's Spotlight Patents concerns techniques for improving the detection of watermarks in content that has undergone a lossy transformation. Assigned to Alcatel-Lucent, the second patent concerns techniques for performing recoverable video and image watermarking which survives block-based video and image compression.

Fingerprinting and Watermarking Patent Applications

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and watermarking.  Assigned to Landmark Digital Services, the first patent addresses techniques for robust and invariant audio pattern matching. Assigned to KDDI (JP), the second patent addresses techniques for digital watermarking and drift compensation.

IBM And Microsoft Rights Management Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern DRM. Assigned to IBM, the first patent addresses techniques for controlling access to wirelessly broadcast electronic works during playback. Assigned to Microsoft, the second patent addresses device registration within a digital rights management framework.

Microsoft and IBM DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents.Today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of DRM. Assigned to Microsoft, the first patent concerns techniques for device registration within a DRM framework.  Assigned to IBM, the second patent concerns techniques for controlling access to wirelessly broadcast electronic works during playback.

Panasonic and Ericsson DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address various uses of encryption in DRM. Assigned to Panasonic the first patent concerns the use of encryption in copyright protection. Assigned to Ericsson, the second patent concerns encryption-based techniques for DRM.

Music Gate And Toshiba Digital Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking, which continues to be a hot topic. Assigned to Music Gate, the first patent addresses techniques for synthesizing electronic transparent audio watermarks. Assigned to Toshiba (JP), the second patent addresses techniques for generating electronic watermarks.

Pantech and ContentGuard Digital Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issues new patents. Digital watermarking continues to be a hot topic. Assigned to Pantech Co. (KR), the first of today's Spotlight Patents concerns techniques for reorganizing wavelength division multiplexing network using dynamic watermarks. Assigned to ContentGuard Holdings, the second patent concerns techniques for multi-stage watermarking.

Canon and FujiFilm Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Digital watermarking continues to be a relatively "hot topic" for US issued patents (and for published patent applications).Assigned to Canon (JP), the first of today's Spotlight Patents concerns techniques for image processing using digital watermarks. Assigned, to FujiFilm, the second patent concerns a digital watermarking apparatus and storage medium.

Sony and Boeing Digital Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Sony (JP), the first patent concerns techniques for making wavelet watermarks resistant to affine transformations. Assigned to the Boeing company, the second patent concerns techniques for non-repudiation watermarking protection based on public and private keys

LG and Gateway Copy Protection Issued Patents

On Tuedays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of copy protection. Assigned to LG Electronics (KR), the first patent addresses techniques for encoding and using copy protection information in Blu-ray discs. Assigned to Gateway, the second patent concerns an optical jukebox with copy protection caching and caching copy protected data.

Siemens and Apple DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of DRM. Assigned to Siemens, the first application discloses techniques for managing user rights to electronic data objects by a person who acquires rights. Assigned to Apple, the second application discloses techniques for content protection information using family of quadratic multivariate polynomial map to generate a hash message authentication code.

LSI and Philips Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to LSI,the first patent concerns techniques for video watermarking and steganography ["hidden writing"] using simulated film grain. Assigned to Philips (NL), the second patent concerns for techniques for detecting a watermark in a digital signal.

Nvidia Watermarking and Digimarc Fingerprinting Issued Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight patents address aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Nvidia, the first patent concerns techniques for tracing distribution of video content with video watermarks. Assigned to Digimarc, the second patent concerns techniques for managing audio and other media.

TiVo and SmarDTV and Conditional Access Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents address conditional access systems used in video distribution. Assigned to TiVo, the first patent concerns conditional access techniques including those that prevent replay attacks. Assigned to SmarDTV SA, the second patent concerns techniques for selective multimedia encryption.

Intertrust and Hitachi DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents deal with aspects of DRM. Assigned to Intertrust, the first patent concerns trusted and secure techniques for item delivery and execution.  Assigned to Hitachi, the second patent concerns techniques for limiting high quality digital video to devices that are capable of enforcing copy protection.

Microsoft and IBM Digital Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Microsoft, the first patent addresses techniques for positionally encoded document image analysis and labeling. Assigned to IBM, the second patent addresses techniques for protecting images with an image watermark.

Three DRM-Related Patents From InterTrust Technologies

Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Three InterTrust DRM-related patents issued today, and rather than choosing two of them, today's Spotlight Patents note all three. The first concerns techniques for software self-checking. The second concerns techniques for using cryptography to protect secure computing environments. The third concerns techniques for managing the distribution of electronic content.

Hitachi Watermarking and Microsoft Fingerprinting Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents concern digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Hitachi, the first patent concerns techniques for controlling contents by plurality of pieces of control information, some of which is encoded in a digital watermark. [It's perhaps worth noting that this Hitachi patent doesn't cite as prior art the Van Wie and Weber watermarking patents:  5,943,422,  6,240,185, 6,449,367, 6,618,484. Draw your own conclusions.] Assigned to Microsoft, the second patent concerns digital fingerprinting using synchronization marks and watermarks.

Yahoo and Panasonic DRM Issued Patents

Back from vacation. On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of DRM and copyright. Assigned to Yahoo!, the first patent concerns techniques for controllable track-skipping. Assigned to Panasonic (JP), the second patent concerns a rights management terminal, server apparatus and usage information collection system.

Kaleidescape Fingerprinting and Digimarc Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents.  Digital watermarking and fingerprinting continue to be relatively hot topics. Assigned to Kaleidescape, the first of today's Spotlight Patents concerns parallel distribution and fingerprinting of digital content. Assigned to Digimarc, the second patent concerns digital watermarking of low bit rate video.

Intel and Samsung DRM Patents

On Tuesdays, the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents deal with aspects of DRM. Assigned to Intel, the first patent addresses operating system independent  data management. Assigned to Samsung, the second patent addresses techniques for controlling output to an output device according to each content.

Microsft Fingerprinting and Digimarc Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents concern digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Microsoft, the first patent addresses techniques for forensic for fingerprint detection in multimedia. Assigned to Digimarc, the second patent addresses techniques for reversable watermarking.

Sony and Panasonic DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern various aspects of DRM. Assigned to Sony, the first patent addresses techniques for multiple DRM management. Assigned to Panasonic, the second patent concerns techniques for copyright protection.

France Telecom and Thomson Watermarking Patents

On Thursdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Thomson (FR), the first patent addresses techniques for reducing the computational cost of embedding information in digital representations. Assigned to France Telecom (FR), the second patent concerns techniques for watermarking a color image by vectorial approach.

Akamai and Advestigo Digital Fingerprinting Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Akamai, the first patent deals with a dynamic multimedia fingerprinting system. Assigned to Advestigo, the second patent deals with techniques for indexing and identifying multimedia documents.

Philips and Canon Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern various aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Philips, the first patent concerns techniques for time domain watermarking of multimedia signals. Assigned to Canon, the second patent concerns techniques for digital watermark embedding/ extraction in accordance with manipulation, editing, and compression.

Microsoft and Nokia DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO publishes new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of DRM. Assigned to Microsoft, the first patent concerns techniques for converting content protection from conditional access to DRM systems. Assigned to Nokia, the second patent concerns techniques for dynamically enforcing digital rights management rules.

Microsoft and Digimarc Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking, which continues to be a "hot topic" relative to DRM patents. Assigned to Microsoft, the first patent addresses techniques for audio watermarking with covert channel and permutations. Assigned to Digimarc, the second patent addresses techniques for content processing using reversable watermarking.

Microsoft and Purdue Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Microsoft, the first patent addresses techniques for media watermarking by biasing randomized statistics. Assigned to the Purdue Research Foundation, the second patent addresses techniques for rights assessment over digital data through watermarking.

Canon and Digimarc Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern various aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Digimarc, the first patent addresses techniques for audio watermarking and decoding. Assigned to Canon (JP), the second patent addresses techniques for image processing.

Civolution and Digimarc Watermarking Patents

On Tuedays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern the use of digital watermarking. Assigned to Civolution (NL), the first patent relates to techniques for watermark-based access control. Assigned to Digimarc, the second patent relates to techniques for embedding auxiliary information within original data.

Digimarc and AT&T Watermarking Issued Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern various aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Digimarc, the first patent addresses techniques for computing distortion of media signals using embedded data with repetitive structure and log-polar mapping. Assigned to AT&T, the second patent addresses techniques for watermark detection that use a matched filtering technique on a log polar re-mapping of a watermarked signal to detect peaks associated with a repetitive structure of a watermark.

Motorola and Sony DRM Patents

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On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address various aspects of DRM.  Assigned to Motorola, the first patent concerns techniques for transferring digital rights. Assigned to Sony (JP), the second patent concerns interfaces for presenting downloadable digital data content format options.

Digimarc and Apple Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address various aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to digimarc, the first patent concerns layered security in digital watermarking. Assigned to Apple, the second patent concerns the use of watermarking in copy protection.

Auditude Fingerprinting and Toshiba Watermarking Patents

On Tuesday's the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents concern digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Auditude, the first patent concern extraction and matching of characteristic fingerprints from audio signals. Assigned to Toshiba, the second patent concerns techniques for embedding and detecting digital watermarks.

MPAA and Sprint DRM Issued Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address digital rights management. Assigned to the MPAA, the first patent concerns an adaptive digital rights management system for plural device domains. Assigned to Sprint, the second patent concerns wireless access provider intermediation to facilliate digital rights management for third party hosted content.

Sony and Oracle DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of DRM. Assigned to Sony, the first patent addresses techniques for information processing and recording. Assigned to SealedMedia (Oracle), the second patent addresses aspects of digital rights management.