Managing Rights Management

Thomson and Xerox Digital Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Thomson (FR), the first application discloses techniques for time-stamped watermarking. Assigned to Xerox, the second application discloses techniques for the generation of correlation-based digital watermarks using uniform-rosette color halftoning. 20090217052,... Read more →

Three DRM-Related Patents From InterTrust Technologies

Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Three InterTrust DRM-related patents issued today, and rather than choosing two of them, today's Spotlight Patents note all three. The first concerns techniques for software self-checking. The second concerns techniques for using cryptography to protect secure computing environments. The third concerns techniques for managing... Read more →

Protected Data Path and BitTorrent (P2P) Related DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of DRM. The first application discloses techniques for validating protected intra-system interconnects for DRM, no assignee given. The second application discloses techniques for digital rights protection in BitTorrent-like P2P systems, assigned to George Mason University.... Read more →

Hitachi Watermarking and Microsoft Fingerprinting Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents concern digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Hitachi, the first patent concerns techniques for controlling contents by plurality of pieces of control information, some of which is encoded in a digital watermark. [It's perhaps worth noting that this Hitachi... Read more →

Yahoo and Microsoft DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of DRM and copyright protection. Assigned to Yahoo!, the first application discloses techniques for detecting the source of media content with application to business rules. Assigned to Microsoft, the second application discloses an educational content presentation... Read more →

Yahoo and Panasonic DRM Issued Patents

Back from vacation. On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of DRM and copyright. Assigned to Yahoo!, the first patent concerns techniques for controllable track-skipping. Assigned to Panasonic (JP), the second patent concerns a rights management terminal, server apparatus and usage information collection system. 7,574,513,... Read more →