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 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.

CES 2012: The Afterview Overview

There's a ZDNet post by Jason Perlow suggesting that the show has 3 years to live given that APPL doesn't participate and that MSFT has withdrawn starting next year. May be correct despite this year's apparent high energy and positive tone. It seems like a lot of "also rans" chasing market share of the remainder after Apple has gobbled up smartphones, tablets, etc.

The OLED TV screens (Samsung, LG) are superduper: vivid colors, very bright, very thin, very expensive although the prices will come down as manufacturing gets down the learning curve. Living room integration and home control integration have made incremental progress since last year, but no big "Ah Has". More floor space to digital health gizmos and applications. Auto / Entertainment integration continues incrementally in both the new car and aftermarket products. The distraction factor remains a concern.

There were all too numerous small companies trying to get design wins for their component products. Hope springs eternal, I guess. Then there were the also all too numerous companies displaing add-ons to Apple products with an interesting substantially fewer number doing Android phone and tablet add-ons.

Digital rights management, watermarking, and fingerprinting are alive and well in a broad range of content identification and content distribution and access value propositions. Civolution, Gracenote, and Motorola (Secure Media's HLS+) were among those showing explicit applications of various content protection and identification technologies. I saw incremental improvements and some new applications. Most of the DRM related capabilities were transparent to the user as they should be.

Although a bit off topic, the 3D printers from MakerBot and Cubify and the 3D printing service from Sculpteo were very interesting. Hard to tell whether this will be a "great idea" with limited markets or whether the vendors can do the right marketing to grow revenue sufficiently to sustain these companies.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dolby Fingerprinting and Intertrust Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking.  Assigned to Dolby Labs, the first application discloses techniques for projection based hashing that balances robustness and sensitivity of media fingerprints. Assigned to Intertrust, the second aplication discloses techniques for software self-checking and tamper resistance.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

IBM and Fraunhofer Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digtial watermarking. Assigned to IBM, the first patent addresses techniques for solving the "birthday" problem with watermarking. Assigned to Fraunhofer, the second patent addresses techniques for embedding watermark information and method and device for extracting embedded watermark information.

Panasonic and IBM Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Panasonic, the first patent addresses watermarking techniques for sound encoding. Assigned IBM, the second patent addresses techniques for embedding and detecting watermarks based on embedded positions in document layout.

Landmark Fingerprinting and NTT Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents deal with aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Landmark Digital Services, the first patent concerns techniques for recognizing sound and music signals in high noise and distortion. Assigned to NTT, the second patent concerns watermarking techniques that ential Fourier transforms.

Emulex Fingerprinting and Avid Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications address  aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Emulex Design & Manufacturing, the first application discloses techniques for verifying correct encryption key utilization. Assigned to Avid, the second application discloses techniques for watermarking motion pictures.

Philips Fingerprinting and Microsoft Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Philips (NL), the first application discloses techniques for identifying elementary content portions from an edited content. Assigned to Microsoft, the second application discloses techniques for tamper-resistant text stream watermarking.

Watermarking and Fingerprinting Patent Applications

On Thursdays, the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Marktek and Markany Inc. (KR), the first application discloses techniques for embedding watermark into an image and digital video recorder. The second application discloses fingerprinting based techniques that facilitate the search of video content, no assignee given.

Google Fingerprinting and Digimarc 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 Google, the first application discloses the use of digital fingerprinting techniques for policy-based media syndication and monetization.  Assigned to Digimarc, the second application discloses the use of digital watermarking in cell phone interactions.

FSU Watermarking and UMaryland Fingerprinting Issued Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to the Florida State University Research Foundation, the first patent concerns techniques for embedding and extracting a digital watermark. Assigned to the University of Maryland, the second patent concerns techniques for fingerprinting digital media.

Two Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of watermarking. The first application discloses techniques for ensuring that advertisements are played, no assignee given. The second application discloses techniques for inserting a removable visible watermark in an image and method and apparatus for removing such watermarks, assigned to Thomson.

Qurio and Panasonic Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Digital watermarking continues to be a hot topic. Assigned to Qurio Holdings, the first Spotlight Patent concerns multiple watermarks for digital rights management (DRM) and content tracking. Assigned to Panasonic, the second patent concerns the use of watermarking techniques in copy control.

IBM Watermarking and Fortinet Fingerprinting Issued Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents.  Today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to IBM, the first patent concerns techniques for generating a watermark.  Assigned to Fortinet, the second patent concerns techniques including digital fingerprinting for providing security on a computer network.

Philips and Microsoft Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Philips, the first application discloses a method of locating a receiver that redistributes content that makes use of watermarking. Assigned to Microsoft, the second application discloses techniques for randomized signal transforms and their applications including watermarking.

Headweb Watermarking and Oracle 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 Headweb AB (SE), the first application discloses techniques that use digital watermarking for legally sharing files. Assigned to Oracle, the second application discloses a web server for multi-version web documents that makes use of digital fingerprinting techniques.