Managing Rights Management

Paramount Licenses Macrovion Technologies Including BD+ For Blu-Ray

Macrovision has announced that Paramount Home Entertainment has licensed copy protection technologies including BD+, the programmable security and DRM technology used with Blu-ray optical discs. ...Paramount Home Entertainment has agreed to license Macrovision’s content protection products, ACP and RipGuard. ACP and RipGuard provide protection against unauthorized copying of content across... Read more →

Microsoft and Alcatel Lucent DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern DRM. Assigned to Microsoft, the first application discloses techniques for conditional access to digital rights management conversion. Assigned to Alcatel Lucent (FR), the second application discloses techniques for network-based DRM enforcement. 20090106850, "Conditional access to digital... Read more →

Motorola and Sony DRM Patents

{Back from travels and client work.] On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address various aspects of DRM. Assigned to Motorola, the first patent concerns techniques for transferring digital rights. Assigned to Sony (JP), the second patent concerns interfaces for presenting downloadable digital data content... Read more →

DirecTV and LG Conditional Access Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern various aspects of conditional access systems commonly found in cable and satellite broadcast systems. Assigned to DirecTV, the first application discloses techniques for securely requesting download of content to a user device from another device.... Read more →

Digimarc and Apple Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address various aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to digimarc, the first patent concerns layered security in digital watermarking. Assigned to Apple, the second patent concerns the use of watermarking in copy protection. 7,519,819, "Layered security in digital watermarking,"... Read more →

Watermarking Related Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern the use of digital watermarks. The first of today's applications discloses techniques for rights protection of datasets with dataset structure preservation, no assignee given. The second application discloses ways of incorporating additional information into main information... Read more →

Auditude Fingerprinting and Toshiba Watermarking Patents

On Tuesday's the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents concern digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Auditude, the first patent concern extraction and matching of characteristic fingerprints from audio signals. Assigned to Toshiba, the second patent concerns techniques for embedding and detecting digital watermarks. 7,516,074, "Extraction and matching... Read more →

Oracle and Yahoo Digital Fingerprint Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Both of todays Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital fingerprints. Assigned to Oracle, the first application discloses techniques for fraud monitoring and detection using application fingerprinting. Assigned to Yahoo, the second application discloses techniques for providing multimedia content optimization. 20090089869, "Techniques for... Read more →