Managing Rights Management

France Telecom and Thomson Watermarking Patents

On Thursdays 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 reducing the computational cost of embedding information in digital representations. Assigned to France Telecom (FR), the second patent concerns techniques for watermarking a... Read more →

Quallcomm and Searete DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications address various aspects of DRM. Assigned to Qualcomm, the first application discloses techniques for managing policies for time-based licenses on mobile devices. Assigned to Searete, the second application discloses control techniques for object production rights. 20090165083,... Read more →

Akamai and Advestigo Digital Fingerprinting Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Akamai, the first patent deals with a dynamic multimedia fingerprinting system. Assigned to Advestigo, the second patent deals with techniques for indexing and identifying multimedia documents. 7,552,338, "Dynamic multimedia fingerprinting system,"... Read more →

Two DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of DRM. The first application discloses techniques for protecting unprotected content, no assignee given. The second application discloses techniques for dealing with digital rights management among apparatuses, also no assignee given. 20090158439, "Method For... Read more →

Philips and Canon Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern various aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Philips, the first patent concerns techniques for time domain watermarking of multimedia signals. Assigned to Canon, the second patent concerns techniques for digital watermark embedding/ extraction in accordance with manipulation,... Read more →

Philips and Sony DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of DRM. Assigned to Philips, the first application discloses digital rights management for retrieving medical data from a server. Assigned to Sony, the second application discloses techniques for video upscaling. 20090151007, "Digital rights management... Read more →

Microsoft and Nokia DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO publishes new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of DRM. Assigned to Microsoft, the first patent concerns techniques for converting content protection from conditional access to DRM systems. Assigned to Nokia, the second patent concerns techniques for dynamically enforcing digital rights management rules. 7,546,641,... Read more →

Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications deal with the use of digital watermarking. The first application discloses techniques relating to a watermark generating circuit. The second application discloses a digital watermarking CMOS sensor. 20090141927, "Watermark Generating Circuit And Related Method Thereof, no assignee... Read more →

Microsoft and Digimarc Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking, which continues to be a "hot topic" relative to DRM patents. Assigned to Microsoft, the first patent addresses techniques for audio watermarking with covert channel and permutations. Assigned to Digimarc, the second patent... Read more →