Managing Rights Management

Xerox and IBM Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Xerox, the first patent addresses techniques for infrared watermarking of photographic images by matched differential black strategies. Assigned to IBM, the second patent addresses techniques using selecting bit positions for storing a digital watermark

Cryptodyne and Xerox Digital Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned ot Cryptodyne Systems, Inc., the first patent addresses techniques for implementing digital differential steganographic techniques. Assigned to Xerox, the second patent addresses techniques for watermarking images or image portions, such as saturated text.

Intertrust 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 Intertrust, the first patent addresses techniques for trust management. Assigned to Samsung, the second patent addresses techniques for providing DRM licenses.

Intertrust and DTS Digital Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Intertrust, the first patent addresses techniques for encoding and protecting data using digital signature and watermarking. Assigned to DTS, the second patent addresses a temporally accurate watermarking system and method of operation.

IBM and In-Crcuit Solutions DRM Patents

On 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 the digital rights management of streaming captured content based on criteria regulating a sequence of elements. Assigned to In-Circuit Solutions (CN), the second patent concerns techniques for digital rights managment.

Digimarc and Google Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Digimarc, the first patent addresses watermarking techniques for processing content objects. Assigned to Google, the second patent addresses techniques for image watermarking.

Two Apple DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management and both are assigned to Apple. The first patent addresses techniques for decoupling rights in a digital content unit from download. The second patent addresses content protection information using family of quadratic multivariate polynomial maps.

LG and Britesmart 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 an DRM interoperable system.  Assigned to Britesmart, the second patent addresses techniques to use, share and manage digital content by assigning MAC and IP adress to each device and peripheral.

Nokia and SAP Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays, the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Nokia, the first patent concerns techniques including watermarking for authenticating digital signals. Assigned to SAP, the second patent concerns techniques including watermarking for securing documents with electronic signatures.

Thomson and Google Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents.  Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Thomson Licensing, the first patent addresses techniques including digital watermaking for copy protection of digital data stored on a medium. Assigned to Google, the second patent addresses techniques including digital watermarking for detecting chain-letters in user-generated comments for websites. Note: this patent cites only two--really--pieces of prior art. It is, of course, possible that there are only two relevant references, but this seems SO unlikely.

Xerox and Scenera Technologies Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Xerox, the first patent addresses techniques for embedding frequency modulation infrared watermark in digital document. Assigned to Scenera Technologies, the second and reissued patent addresses a camera network communication device that includes digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting.

Adobe and Hitachi DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO isues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Adobe, the first patent addresses techniques for locally caching digital rights information. Assigned to Hitachi (JP), the second patent addresses techniques for an interface that can prevent video signals from being copied easily and which uses a luminance/color difference signal transmission scheme with an excellent harmony with a television circuit.

HP and Sunplus Technology DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to HP, the first patent concerns techniques for determining whether a digital rights management system's native license is valid. Assigned to Sunplus Technology (TW), the second patent concerns a proprietary portable audio player system for protecting digital content copyrights.

Avaya and IBM Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking.  Assigned to Aveya, the first patent addresses techniques for signal watermarking in the presence of encryption. Assigned to IBM, the second patent addresses techniques for audio content digital watermark detection.

Amazon and HP DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the UPSTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management.  Assigned to Amazon, the first patent addresses techniques for controlling use of computing-related resources by multiple independent parties. Assigned to HP, the second patent addresses techniques for secure loading, integrity checking of the runtime image and control over the runtime execution of applications.

Thomson and Oki Data Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays 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 selecting image pixels to watermark and watermarking method using this selection. Assigned to Oki Data (JP), the second patent addresses techniques for processing image to update information embedded unreadably in a printed document.

Sanyo and Medox Exchange DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Sanyo, the first patent addresses image processing techniques including copyright protection for processing image having hierarchical structure. Assigned to Medox Exchange, the second patent addresses for managing specification, enforcement, or auditing of electronic health information access or use.

General Instrument and LG Electronics DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to General Instruments, the first patent addresses techniques for interoperability between different digital rights management systems. Assigned to LG Electronics (KR), the second patent addresses converting encrypted audio data for a portable device and reproducing the converted audio data,

Trend Micro and Microsoft Digital Fingerprinting Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting.  Assigned to Trend Micro (JP), the first patent addresses techniques for content fingerprinting for information leakage prevention. Assigned to Microsoft, the second patent addresses techniques for  embedding media forensic identification markings.

Two Samsung DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital rights management and both are assigned to Samsung (KR). The first patent concerns a network device and method for providing content compatibility between network devices having different respective digital rights management methods. The second patent concerns techniques for implementing digital rights management systems in low-efficiency storage device.

Intel and Digimarc Digital Fingerprinting Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Intel, the first patent addresses techniques for fingerprinting digital video for rights management in networks. Assigned to Digimarc, the second patent addresses techniques for generating and utilizing content signatures.

Morega Systems and Pixel Velocity DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Morega Systems, the first patent concerns techniques related to distributed digital rights management node module. Assigned to Pixel Velocity, the second patent concerns techniques for identifying illegal uses of copyright material.

Thomson and Digimarc Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Thomson (FR), the first patent concerns active watermarks and watermark agents.  Assigned to Digimarc, the second patent concerns techniques for watermarking electronic text documents.

Voible Fingerprinting and ETRI Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USTPO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Vobile, the first patent addresses techniques for fingerprinting digital video object based on multiresolution, multirate spatial and temporal signatures. Assigned to the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (KR), the second patent addresses techniques for selecting test stimuli for use in evaluating performance of video watermarking methods.

XM and Canon DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to XM Satellite Radio, the first patent addresses techniques for securely storing and organizing Satellite Digital Audio Radio Service content with DRM and non-DRM protected media content. Assigned to Canon (JP), the second patent addresses techniques for generating session keys for encryption of image data.

Oracle and ATT DRM Issued Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to SealedMedia (acquired by Oracle), the first patent addresses techniques for digital rights management. Assigned to AT&T, the second patent addresses techniques for managing access to digital content via digital rights policies.

Civolution and Pitney Bowes Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of watermarking. Assigned to Civolution (NL), the first patent addresses the embedding and detection of watermark in a motion image signal. Assigned to Pitney Bowes, the second patent addresses techniques for detecting printed image copies using phase-space-encoded fragile watermark.

Sprint and Panasonic DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concerns aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Sprint Communications, the first of today's patents addresses digital rights management negotiation for streaming media over a network. Assigned to Panasonic, the second patent addresses systems and methods for deleting a content so as to be restorable in the future while protecting a copyright of the content.

Intertrust and Microsoft DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents addresses aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Intertrust (Hi Talal), the first patent concerns techniques for retrofitting electronic appliances to accept different content formats. Assigned to Microosoft, the second patent concerns peer-to-peer networks with protections.

Rovi and Quiro Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Rovi, the first patent concerns techniques for self-protecting digital content. Assigned to Quiro holdings, the second patent concerns client-side watermarking using hybrid I-Frames (an aspect of MPEG video compression).

LG and Microsoft DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO publishes new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to LG Electronics (KR), the first patent concerns techniques for digital rights management. Assigned to Microsoft, the second patent concerns content encryption schema for integrating digital rights management with encrypted multicast.

Apple and Microsoft DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO publishes new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Apple, the first patent concerns a token passing technique for media playback devices. Assigned to Microsoft, the second patent concerns techniques for offline playback of advertising supported media.

TSMC and NTT Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned jointly to TSMC and Global Unichip (TW), the first patent concerns techniques for digitally watermarking data. Assignd to NTT (JP), the second patent concerns techniques for embedding a digital watermark.

Two Sony DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents deal with aspects of digital rights management and both are assigned to Sony (JP). The first patent concerns techniques to distribute content over a network. The second patent concerns an encryption system for satellite delivered television.

Google Fingerprinting and IBM Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Google, the first patent concerns the use of digital fingerprinting for document near-duplicate detection. Assigned to IBM, the second patent concerns the use of watermarking for tracking end-user electronic content useage.

General Instrument and IBM DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to General Instrument, the first patent concerns techniques for reserving digtial rights. Assigned to IBM, the second patent concerns techniques for the procurement and audit of digital rights management event data.

Digimarc and Wisteria Trading Watermarking Patents

[bonus installment]. On Tuesday the USPTO issues new patents. Both of these Spotlight Patents address asspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Digimarc, the first patent concerns techniques for generating geographic-based watermarking keys. Assigned to Wisteria Trading, the second patent concerns optimization methods for the insertion, protection, and detection of digital watermarks in digital data.

IBM and Sony DRM Patents

[back from vacation.] On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today' Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to IBM, the first patent addresses techniques for controlling access rights to network resources. Assigned to Sony (JP), the second patent addresses techniques for enabling usage of content at a receiver which does not have a copying function even if copyright protection is provided.

Xilinx Fingerprinting and Fraunhofer Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and and digital watermarking. Assigned to Xilinx, the first patent addresses techniques including fingerprinting for copy protection without non-volatile memory. Assigned to Fraunhofer, the second patent addresses techniques fo watermarking digital representations that have undergone lossy compression.

Apple and IBM DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to IBM, the first patent addresses techniques for DRM. Assigned to Apple, the second patent addresses techniques for the secure distribution of content using decryption keys. [Not a lot of prior art cited in either patent.]

DirectTV and Trident Microsystems Conditional Access Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO publishes newly issued patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of conditonal access systems used mainly in cable, IPTV, and satellite content distribution and access systems. Assigned to DirecTV, the first patent concerns techniques for processing content signals from multiple signal sources. Assigned to Trident Microsystems, the second patent concerns techniques for constructing MPEG program streams from encrypted MPEG transport streams.

Wisteria Trading and Fujitsu Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO publishes newly issued patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Wisteria Trading (hi Scott), the first patent addresses techniques for optimizing the insertion, protection, and detection of digital watermarks in digital data. Assigned to Fujitsu (JP), the second patent addresses, among other things, techniques enabling content users to use only what they want to use in the amount they want to use it.

Microsoft and Panasonic DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO publishes new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Microsoft, the first patent addresses a multimedia search engine that makes use of rights management information. Assigned to Panasonic (JP), the second patent addresses encryption key generation and key management techniques relating to copy protection.

Activated Content and Oki Data Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO publishes new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Activated Content Corporation, the first patent concerns a stegotext encoder and decoder. Assigned to Oki Data Corporation (JP), the second patent concerns techniques for embedding an electronic watermark.

LMP Media and Sony DRM Issued Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO publishes newly issued patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to LMP Media, LLC, the first patent concerns the use of DRM in an electronic media distribution system. Assigned to Sony, the second patent concerns techniques for distributing protected and unprotected content.

Panasonic and Canon Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Panasonic (JP), the first patent addresses techniuqes for embedding/detecting a digital watermark. Assigned to Canon, the second patent addresses an image processing system detecting print job log information embedded as a digital watermark.

Oki and VMWare DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address asepcts of digital rights management. Assigned to Oki (JP), the first patent concerns a content playing system for reliably determining an authentication of a playing terminal. Assigned to VMWare, the second patent concerns a virtualization system for computers having multiple protection mechanisms.

Sony and Panasonic DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Sony, the first patent concerns techniques for content delivery, content recording, and content reproduction. Assigned to Panasonic (JP), the second patent concerns techniques for a content usage rule management system.

Network Engines Fingerprinting and Quiro Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digtial fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Network Engines, the first patent addresses techniques including fingerprinting for management of software installation and execution. Assigned to Quiro Holdings, the second patent addresses an interconnect device to enable compliance with rights management restrictions that makes use of watermarking techniques.

Microsoft and Xerox Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Microsoft, the first patent concerns techniques for tamper-resistant text stream watermarking. Assigned to Xerox, the second patent concerns techniques for the generation of multiple angle correlation-based digital watermarks.