Managing Rights Management

Fraunhofer and Broadcom Watermarking Patents

Tuesdays the Patent Office issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking.  Assigned to Fraunhofer (DE), the first patent addresses a watermarking apparatus, software enabling an implementation of an electronic circuit comprising a watermark, method for detecting a watermark and apparatus for detecting a watermark. Assigned to Broadcom, the second patent addresses watermarking for compressed scalable coded bitstreams.

Intertrust and Samsung DRM Patents

Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Intertrust, the first patent addresses trusted and secure techniques for item delivery and execution. Assigned to Samsung (KR), the second of today's patents addresses techniques for managing digital rights using portable storage device.

Invention Science and Upload Technologies DRM Patents

Tuesdays the Patent Office issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to The Innovation Science Fund, the first patent addresses a control technique for object production rights. Assigned to Upload Technologies (LU), the second patent addresses techniques for digital rights management of digital media.

Two Digital Fingerprinting Patents

Tuesdays the Patent Office issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Yahoo!, the first of today's patents concerns techniques for video comparing using fingerprint representations. Assigned to The University Court of The University of St Andrews (GB), the second patent concerns video fingerprinting techniques.

Dolby and Yahoo! Fingerprinting Patents

Tuesdays the PTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Dolby, the first patent asdresses techniques for content identification and quality monitoring. Assigned to Yahoo!, the second patent addresses techniques for video fingerprinting.

Two Canon DRM Patents

Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management and both are assigned to Canon (JP).The first patent concerns an access rights system where the user does not install any specific application. The second patent concerns access rights in the context of workflow management.

Cox and General Instrument DRM Patents

Tuesdays the Patent Office issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Cox Communications, the first of today's patents concerns techniques for content protection and digital rights management. Assigned to General Instrument, the second patent concerns techniques for securely transferring content from set-top box to personal media player.

Google and NetApp Digital Fingerprinting Patents

Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Google, the first patent addresses techniques for audio identification using wavelet-based signatures. Assigned to NetApp, the second patent addresses techniques for retrieving and using block fingerprints for data deduplication.

Nokia and Intarsia Software DRM Patents

Tuesdays the Patent Office issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Nokia (FI), the first patent concerns techniques for providing protected content to one or more devices by reacquiring the content from a service. Assigned to Intarsia Software, the second patent concerns techniques for data copyright management.

AT&T and VVI Digital Watermarking Patents

Tuesdays the Patent Office issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to AT&T, the first patent addresses techniques for generating a per sale watermarking on digital files. Assigned to Virginia Venture Industries, LLC, the second patent addresses techniques for embedding and decoding three-dimensional watermarks into stereoscopic images.

Intertrust and IBM DRM Patents

Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Intertrust, the first patent addresses techniques for governing content rendering, protection, and management applications. Assigned to IBM, the second patent addresses techniques for procuring and auditing digital rights management data.

Google and Symantec Digital Fingerprinting Patents

Tuesdays the Patent Office issues new patents. Both of today's two Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Google, the first patent concerns techniques that facilitate matching of video content. Assigned to Symantec, the second patent concerns techniques for dynamically scaling the size of a fingerprint index in a deduplication storage system.

Microsoft and Postech DRM Patents

Tuesdays the Patent Office issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Microsoft, the first of today's patents concerns techniques for managing domains for digital media. Assigned to Postech Academy--Industry Foundation (KR), the second patent concerns techniques for providing DRM interoperability.

Broadcom Watermarking and Samsung Fingerprinting Patents

Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Broadcom, the first patent addresses techniques for robust watermark insertion and extraction for digital set-top boxes. Assigned to Samsung, the second patent addresses techniques for generating audio fingerprint and retrieving audio data.

Microsoft and Apple DRM Patents

Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Microsoft, the first of today's patents concerns a digital rights management scheme for an on-demand distributed streaming system. Assigned to Apple, the second patent concerns the use of run-time code injection to perform checks.

Purdue 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 Purdue Research Foundation, the first patent addresses techniques for the synchronization of digital watermarks. Assigned to IBM, the second patent addresses techniques for watermark hiding in designated applications.

Google and Zeitera Digital Fingerprinting Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Google, the first patent addresses techniques for document near-duplicate detection. Assigned to Zeitera, the second patent addresses techniques for media fingerprinting and identification.

Adobe and Nvidia DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Adobe Systems, the first patent addresses techniques for digital rights management using digital signatures. Assigned to Nvidia, the second patent addresses techniques for secure content enabled drive digital rights management.

IV's 3D Printing DRM Patents and Applications

At recent International CES shows, I've been eyeballing 3D printer technologies and vendors.  Last October, Ryan Whitwam wrote that:

While you were busy getting yourself all worked up and declaring 3D printing the beginning of a new age, one of the most maligned figures in modern patent law is preparing to rain on your parade. Nathan Myhrvold, former Microsoft CTO and founder of patent holder Intellectual Ventures, has managed to get an expansive patent on 3D printing DRM. That 3D printing revolution we’ve been hoping for just got a lot trickier.

Turns out that the patents Whitwam references belong either to Searete, LLC or to The Invention Science Fund I, LLC, both apparently vehicles of Intellectual Ventures. Myhrvold is not listed as inventor.

Here is a list of Searete's and Invention Science's US patent and pending applications that address digital rights management and 3D printing and, more generally, secure manufacturing. Some pendings are continuations of the same specification and differ only in the claims. Nonetheless, this list does provide an overview into Intellectual Ventures' efforts in these areas.

Samsung and Toshiba DRM Patents

Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Samsung (KR), the first of today's patents concerns techniques for protecting digital content in a digital rights management (DRM) system. Assigned to Toshiba (JP), the second patent concerns an AV communication control circuit for realizing copyright protection with respect to radio LAN.

Thomson Watermarking and Rovi Fingerprinting Patents

Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Thomson, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for fault detection using embedded watermarks. Assigned to Rovi, the second patent addresses techniques for for audio recognition.

Adobe and Microsoft DRM Patents

Even on New Years, the USPTO issues new patents on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Adobe, the first patent concerns techniques for protecting a document with multiple digital rights management systems. Assigned to Microsoft, the second of today's patents concerns the use of DRM to secure and monitize modular software defined radio components.

Google and General Instrument Fingerprinting Patents

On Tuesdays the UPSTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Google, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for three-dimensional wavelet based video fingerprinting. Assigned to General Instrument, the second patent addresses techniques for adaptive video fingerprinting.

IBM and Sony DRM Patents

Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to IBM, the first patent concerns techniques for the automatic identification of subject-executed code and subject-granted access rights. Assigned to Sony (JP), the second patent concerns techniques for distributing content over a network.

Invention Science Watermarking and Cortica Digital Fingerprinting Patents

Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarkingand digital fingerprinting. Assigned to The Invention Science Fund I, LLC, the first of today's patents addresses techniques including digital watermarking for screening for masquerading content. Assigned to Cortica Ltd. (IL), the second patent addresses signature generation techniques for multimedia deep-content-classification by a large-scale matching system.

Microsoft and LG Electronics DRM Patents

Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Microsoft, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for protecting digital media of various content types. Assigned to LG Electronics (KR), the second patent addresses techniques for authenticating between DRM agents for moving Rights Objects.

Uniloc and NetApp Digital Fingerprinting Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Uniloc (LU), the first patent addresses techniques for device authentication with built-in tolerance. Assigned to NetApp, the second patent concerns techniques for on-the-fly elimination of redundant data.

Sony and Samsung DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Sony (JP), the first patent concerns a content receiver that is compatible with a plurality of rights management and protection methods (RMP) devised for each content distribution system. Assigned to Samsung, the second patent concerns

Intertrust and Wistaria Trading Digital Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking which is subset of steganographic ("hidden writing") techniques. Assigned to Intertrust, the first patent addresses steganographic techniques for securely delivering electronic digital rights management control information over insecure communication channels. Assigned to Wistaria Trading (Hi Scott), the second patent addresses techniques for digital watermarking.

SAP and NTT DoCoMo DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to SAP (DE), the first patent addresses techniques for a secure distributed item-level discovery service using secret sharing. Assigned to NTT DoCoMo (JP), the second patent addresses a content transmission system and techniques for protecting copyrighted works.

Sony and Cheng Holdings DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Sony (JP), the first patent concerns a digital rights management dongle. Assigned to Cheng Holdings, the second patent concerns techniques for validating protected intra-system interconnects for digital rights management in electrical computers and digital data processing systems.

Hitachi and Eastman Kodak Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital watermarking / fingerprinting. Assigned to Hitachi, the first patent concerns techniques for dynamically detecting image tampering. Assigned to Eastman Kodak, the second patent addresses techniques for dating images from scanned watermarks [I think this is more fingerprinting than watermarking but it's their patent].

Samsung and CFPH Copyright-related Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents.Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management and copyright protection. Assigned to Samsung (KR), the first of today's patents concerns techniques for utilizing DVD content through a home network that address the concerns of copyright holders. Assigned to CFPH, LLC, the second patent concerns techniques for electronic file use and management without violating copyrights that copyright holders have in the files.

Wistaria Trading and Thomson Digital Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents.Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking.  Assigned to Wisteria Trading, the first patent concerns Optimization methods for the insertion, protection, and detection of digital watermarks in digital data. Assigned to Thomson Licensing (FR), the second patent concerns techniques for determining whether or not a reference pattern is present in a received and possibly watermarked signal.

Oracle Fingerprinting and Canon Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Oracle, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for media fingerprint indexing. Assigned to Canon (JP), the second patent addresses techniques for detering information leakage by a flexible monitoring method according to the characteristic of an image or document.

Ericsson and Nokia DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents.  Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Ericsson (SE), the first patent addresses techniques for achieving a secure recording and storing of a recorded activity is based on an extended Digital Rights Management (DRM) system. Assigned to Nokia, the second patent addresses a a digital rights management (DRM) license manager to protect software applications from unauthorized use.

Dolby and Synergy Sports Digital Fingerprinting Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Dolby Labs, the first patent addresses techniques for improving audio/video fingerprint search accuracy. Assigned to Synergy Sports, the second patent addresses techniques for generating bookmark video fingerprints.

Verance and Thomson Watermarking Patents

On Tueadays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Verance, the first patent addresses technques for efficient and secure forensic marking in compressed domains. Assigned to Thomson (FR), the second patent addresses techniques for correlating two data sections.

LG and Intel DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to LG Electronics (KR), the first patent addresses techniques for managing digital rights of secure removable media. Assigned to Intel, the second patent addresses access rights in devices at least one of which is connected wirelessly.

Digimarc Watermarking and Symantec Fingerprinting Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingingerprinting. Assigned to Digimarc, the first patent addresses various applications of digital watermarking. Assigned to Symantec, the second patent addresses techniques to improve data loss prevention via cross leveraging fingerprints.

Samsung and Philips DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Samsung (KR), the first patent addresses techniques for managing the digital rights of a remote device. Assigned to Philips (KL), the second patent addresses technques for processing rights relating to conctent that can be communicated between devices.

Chi Mei and Rovi Digital Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Chi Mei Communication Systems, Inc. (TW), the first patent concerns techniques for removing digital watermarks from a watermarked image. Assigned to Rovi, the second patent concerns techniques for tunable distribution of content.

Sony and LG Reissued DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management and both are Reissues after a re-examination process at the PTO. Assigned to Sony (JP), the first patent addresses techniques for copy control, for a video signal with copyright signals superimposed as predetermined bits in the VBID data of the video signal. Assigned to LG Electronics (KR), the second patent addresses techniques for converting audio data encrypted for anti-piracy and copyright protection to a suitable format so that the data can be played in a portable device.

Intel Watermarking and Google Fingerprinting Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Intel, the first patent concerns techniques for an advanced watermarking system. Assigned to Google, the second patent concerns techniques for full-length video fingerprinting.

UNILOC and Symantec Digital Fingerprinting Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to UNILOC (LU), the first patent concerns techniques for secure mobile communications. Assigned to Symantec, the second patent concerns optimized prepopulation of a client side cache in a deduplication environment.

LG and Sprint DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to LG Electronics, the first patent addresses domain upgrade methods in digital rights management.  Assigned to Sprint, the second patent addresses a digital rights management integrated service solution.

Cisco and Google Digital Fingerprinting Patents

On Tuesdays the USTPO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Cisco, the first patent addresses the use of fingerprinting for anti-content spoofing. Assigned to Google, the second patent addresses the use of fingerprinting for image segmentation by clustering web images.

Discretix and Ericsson DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Discretix Technologies (IL), the first patent addresses techniques for digital rights management utilizing supplemental content. Assigned to Ericsson (SE), the second patent addresses of techniques for securely delivering streaming data.

Zeitera Fingerprinting and Digimarc Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents deal with aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Zeitera, the first patent concerns techniques for media fingerprinting and identification. Assigned to Digimarc, the second patent concerns techniques for progressive image quality control using watermarking.

Disney and Samsung DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Disney, the first patent addresses techniques for interoperable DRM. Assigned to Samsung, the second patent addresses techniques for processing digital rights objects.