Managing Rights Management

Nokia and AmeriCorps Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications continue the theme of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Nokia, the first application discloses techniques for a secure de-centralized domain name system. Assigned to AmeriCorps, the second application discloses techniques for a blockchain operating system.

DISH and Prescient Innovations Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. This week's Spotlight Applications continue the theme of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to DISH, the first application discloses a content anti-piracy management system and method. Assigned to Prescient Innovations (CA), the second application discloses techniques for providing reliable and authoritative attribution of digital media works at the time of submission to a media distribution service using distributed ledger and machine learning technology.

Oracle and Drive Time Metrics Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents continue our theme of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Oracle, the first patent addresses techniques for providing a representational state transfer proxy service for a blockchain cloud service. Assigned to Drive Time Metrics, the second patent addresses techniques for cross channel in-car media consumption measurement and analysis using blockchain.

ARM and Magna Carta Blockchain and Rights Management Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published  by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Applications continue the theme of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to ARM (GB), the first application discloses a blockchain infrastructure for securing and/or managing electronic artifacts. Assigned to Magna Carta (CH), the second application discloses techniques for providing authentication, non-repudiation, governed access and twin resolution for data utilizing a data control signature.

Yoti and Walmart Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Yoti, the first patent addresses techniques for a digital identity system generating a sharing token for authenticating a bearer to a validator. Assigned to Walmart, the second patent addresses a blockchain-based system and method for supply chain control.

Bootstrap Legal and IBM Blockchain and DRM Patent applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Bootstrap Legal, Inc, the first application discloses techniques for creating and managing a smart contract on a distributed ledger. Assigned to IBM, the second application discloses techniques for unlinking ownership of successive asset transfers on a blockchain.

Cisco and Domus Tower Blockchain and Rights Mangement Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents continue the theme of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management. Assigned to Cisco, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for content and service sharing. Assigned to Domus Tower (AU), the second patent addresses techniques for distributing work load of high-volume per second transactions recorded to append-only ledgers.

GCP IP and Listat Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to GCP IP Holdings, the first application discloses techniques for  a distributed overwatch system that allows transactions with government-grade privacy and security. Assigned to Listat (UA), the second application discloses techniques for decentralized cybersecure privacy network for cloud communication, computing and global e-commerce.

ADB and Gracenote Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to ADB (CH), the first patent addresses techniques for automatic categorization of audio/video content. Assigned to Gracenote, the second patent addresses techniques for identifying video content via color-based fingerprint matching.

Vanzetta and Rocket Lawyer Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Robert Vanzetta, the first application discloses techniques to facilitate gamified arbitration of smart contracts.  Assigned to Rocket Lawyer, the second application discloses techniques for a cryptographic contract payment and dispute resolution system.

BofA and SAP Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to BofA, the first patent addresses techniques for bockchain-based property management. Assigned to SAP (DE), the second patent addresses techniques for identity verification using blockchain technology.

Forcepoint and Aenco Solutions Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications continue the theme of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Forcepoint, the first application discloses techniques for managing blockchain access to user information. Assigned to Aenco Solutions, the second application discloses techniques for verifying and maintaining integrity of data transactions using distributed ledger.

Google and Apple Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Google, the first patent addresses techniques for detecting abusive stereoscopic videos by generating fingerprints for multiple portions of a video frame. Assigned to Apple, the second patent addresses techniques for recognizing sound and music signals in high noise and distortion.

Intertrust and Monegraph Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. This week's Spotlight Applications continue the theme of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Intertrust, the first application discloses techniques for facilitating the secure recording of assertions made by entities tied to identities. Assigned to Monegraph, the second application discloses techniques for rights transfers using block chain transactions.

Farmobile and GE Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are published by the USPTO on Tuesdays. This week's Spotlight Patents continue the theme of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Farmobile, the first patent addresses techniques for distributed transaction-based security and tracking of agricultural machine and agronomic data. Assigned to General Electric, the second patent addresses techniques for blockchain verification of network security service.

Integra and Strong Force Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications continue the theme of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Integra, the first application discloses techniques for blockchain-anchored smart documents. Assigned to Smart Force, the second application discloses techniques for transaction-enabled methods for providing provable access to a distributed ledger with a tokenized instruction set.

Beatdapp and Ranieri Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Beatdapp Software, the first patent addresses techniques for scalably tracking media playback using blockchain. Assigned to Ranieri IP, LLC, the second patent addresses techniques for servicing an obligation utilizing a blockchain.

Alibaba and Walmart Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Alibaba, the first application discloses techniques for blockchain-based music originality analysis. Assigned to Walmart, the second application discloses techniques for collaborative sharing of information.

Symbiont.IO and Capital One Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuedays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Symbiont.IO, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for implementing a smart contract on a distributed ledger technology platform. Assigned to Capital One, the second patent addresses techniques for authorizing the sharing of data and sharing data between a variety of systems.

Strong Force and Householder Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and digital rights management. Assigned to Strong Force IP, the first application discloses techniques for creating an aggregate stack of intellectual property. Assigned to Householder, et al., the second application discloses techniques for ultra-secure blockchain enabled analytics

Philips and Datalogic IP Digital Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Philips (NL), the first patent addresses techniques for image recording and 3D information acquisition. Assigned to Datalogic IP Tech, the second patent addresses techniques for digital watermark localization based upon background foreground estimation.

InfoNetworks and Merck Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications continue the theme of blockchain (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to InfoNetworks, the first application discloses techniques for verification of pseudonymous credentials for digital identities with managed access to personal data on trust networks. Assigned to Merck, the second application discloses techniques for receiving object data representing one or more discriminating characteristics of a physical object or group of physical objects.

Google Fingerprinting and Wistaria Trading Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Google, the first patent addresses techniques for detecting abusive stereoscopic videos by generating fingerprints for multiple portions of a video frame.  Assigned to Wistaria Trading LTD (BM) [Hi Scott], the second patent addresses techniques for utilizing data reduction in steganographic and cryptographic systems.

Walmart and Duvon Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Walmart, the first application discloses techniques for automatically authorizing digital rights access. Assigned to Duvon, the second application discloses techniques for autonomous exchange via entrusted ledger immutable distributed database.

Cambridge Blockchain and Labyrinth Research Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of blockchain (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Cambridge Blockchain, the first patent addresses techniques for managing relationships among digital identities. Assigned to Labyrinth Research, the second patent addresses techniques for unified control of privacy-impacting devices.

Two Infrared5 Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and DRM broadly construed. Both of today's Spotlight Applications are assigned to Infrared5, Inc.  The first application discloses techniques for utilizing a block-chain or central stream manager to securely and reliably stream multimedia in real-time over a distributed network. The second application discloses techniques that utilize a blockchain to verify and compensate devices for computational resources contributions when streaming multimedia over a decentralized network.

Clause and Accenture Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Clause, the first patent addresses techniques for forming, storing, managing, and executing contracts. Assigned to Accenture, the second patent addresses techniques for entitlement tracking and control with blockchain technology.

Ares and Liquineq Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Ares Technologies, the first application discloses techniques for authenticating a digitally signed assertion using verified evaluators. Assigned to Liquineq (Ch), the second application discloses techniques for a multi-tiered distributed network transactional database.

Gracenote and Tencent Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Gracenote the first patent addresses techniques for media channel identification with video multi-match detection and disambiguation based on audio fingerprint. Assigned to Tencent (CN), the second patent addresses techniques for image information recognition processing.

Rovi and Accenture Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

The USPTO publishes new patent applications on Thursday. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Rovi Guides, the first application discloses techniques for providing media asset recommendations based on distributed blockchain analysis. Assigned to Accenture, the second application discloses techniques for active state synchronization between distributed ledger technology (DLT) platforms.