Managing Rights Management

Cloudinary and Theta Labs Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Cloudinary (IL), the first of today's applications discloses techniques for providing authenticity and rights verification mechanism for media content and for its derived versions. Assigned to Theta Labs, the second application... Read more →

Infrared5 and IBM Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Seems to me, today's first patent perhaps confirms a return to the 90s idea of "superdistribution" originated by Ryoichi Mori and substantially elaborated by Victor Shear and the early Intertrust team. Superdistribution comprises... Read more →

IBM and nChain Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to IBM, the first application discloses techniques for a blockchain digital rights management streaming library. Assigned to nChain, the second application discloses techniques for blockchain implemented counting system and method for use... Read more →

Eluvio and HYPR Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Eluvio, the first patent addresses techniques for a decentralized content fabric (also see Eluvio's 11,063,865 which issued today). Assigned to HYPR, the second patent addresses techniques for federated identity management with... Read more →

Attestiv and Connect Health Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Attestiv, the first application discloses techniques for authenticating a digital media asset, and particularly to verifying the authenticity of digital image or video files which may have been redacted or otherwise... Read more →

Dream Channel and Symbiont.io Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Dream Channel (AU), the first of today's patents addresses techniques for virtual reality interaction monitoring using distributed ledgers. Assigned to Symbiont.io, the second patent addresses techniques for for implementing a smart... Read more →

Intertrust and eBay Blockchain and Rights Management Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Intertrust Technologies, the first of today's applications discloses various techniques for content management that may employ distributed ledgers. Assigned to eBay, the second patent discloses techniques for secure management of content... Read more →

Adobe and Nielsen Fingerprinting and Watermarking Patents

Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking (a form of steganography). Assigned to Adobe, the first patent addresses techniques for content creation, fingerprints, and watermarks. Assigned to Nielsen, the second patent addresses techniques for using steganographically-encoded time information as basis to establish a time offset, to... Read more →

Ericsson and Ting Tech Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Ericsson (SE), the first of today's applications discloses techniques for collaborative task offloading automation in smart containers. Assigned to Ting Tech, the second application discloses techniques for interactively broadcasting value via... Read more →

Factom and Taliware Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Factom, the first of today's Spotlight Patents addresses techniques for smart contracts in blockchain environments. Assigned to Taliware, the second patent addresses techniques for passive authentication of an individual using an... Read more →

Microsoft and salesforce Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Microsoft, the first application discloses techniques for controlling and tracing an object across a plurality of parties. Assigned to salesforce.com, the second application discloses techniques for storing PII information via a... Read more →

Clarovia Holdings and Salesforce.com Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Clarovia Holdings, the first patent addresses techniques for using smart contracts to control the trade, supply, manufacture, and distribution of commodities. Assigned to salesforce.com, the second patent addresses techniques for implementing... Read more →

Perpetual Altruism and Americorp Investments Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Perpetual Altruism (GB), the first application discloses techniques for auctioning an item for a seller, and computer implemented method of updating a smart contract. Assigned to Americorp Investments, LLC, the second... Read more →

Verizon and Lottery Now Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Verizon, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for for blockchain ledger growth management using separation of a blockchain ledger into multiple blockchain ledgers. Assigned to Lottery Now, the second patent... Read more →

Strong Force and Warstler Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Strong Force, the first application discloses techniques for crowdsourcing condition of guarantor. Assigned to the inventor, Morgan Warstler, the second application discloses techniques for creating a computer application based on a... Read more →

USAA and Identify3D Blockchain and Rights Management Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to United Services Automobile Association, the first of today's patents address techniques to track, store, and manage events, rights and liabilities. Assigned to Identify3D, the second patent addresses techniques for data management... Read more →

IBM and Monax Industries Smart Contracts Patent Applications

Smart contracts (Blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. IBM tackles an important problem: the formal verification of smart contracts. Monax Industries also addresses aspects of smart contracts, more specifically, techniques for obtaining and recording consent for a proposed object of consent... Read more →

IBM and Mores Blockchain and Rights Management Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to IBM, the first of today's patents concerns techniques for storing data via a blockchain ledger based on a consensus of a set of anchor blockchain nodes which are subset of nodes... Read more →

DISH and Salesforce Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to DISH, the first application discloses techniques for content anti-piracy management. Assigned to salesforce.com, the second application discloses techniques for implementing super community and community sidechains with consent management for distributed ledger... Read more →

PwC and Coinplug Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to PricewaterhouseCoopers, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for a cryptoconomy solution for administration and governance in a distributed system. Assigned to Coinplug (KR), the second patent addresses techniques for providing... Read more →