Managing Rights Management

Two DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of DRM. Assigned to ConDel, the first application discloses techniques for performing interoperable digital rights management among different operating system platforms. The second application discloses techniques for copyright detection and protection, no assignee given.... Read more →

LG Electronics and Microsoft DRM Issued Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of DRM. Assigned to LG Electronics (KR), the first patent concerns a mobile device for preventing illegal distribution of digital data contents. Assigned to Microsoft, the second patent concerns a digital rights management scheme for an... Read more →

Microsoft and Toshiba Digital Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern digital watermarking. Assigned to Microsoft, the first patent addresses techniques for the derivation and quantization of robust non-local characteristics for blind watermarking. Assigned to Toshiba (JP), the second patent addresses digital watermarking techniques. 7,634,660, "Derivation and quantization... Read more →

Two Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications.Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern the use of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to TECsys Development, the first application discloses techniques for using metadata fingerprint analysis for monitoring, alerting, and remediation. The second application discloses techniques using digital fingerprints for managing, reviewing, comparing and... Read more →

Panasonic and Microsoft DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents deal with aspects of DRM. Assigned to Panasonic, the first patent concerns techniques for content distribution management. Assigned to Microsoft, the second patent concerns a secure server plug-in architecture for digital rights management systems. 7,630,922, "Content distribution management... Read more →

Thomson and Alcatel-Lucent Digital Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Digital watermarking continues to be a hot topic. Yesterday, two patents dealing with applications of digital watermarking were each issued to Thomson (7,630,511, 7,631,358) and to Alcatel-Lucent (7,630,512, 7,630,509). Issued to Thomson, the first of today's Spotlight Patents concerns techniques for improving the... Read more →

LG Electronics and Microsoft DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of DRM. Assigned to LG Electronics (KR), the first application discloses techniques for sharing rights objects in digital rights management. Assigned to Microsoft, the second application discloses techniques for accessing protected content in a... Read more →

Fingerprinting and Watermarking Patent Applications

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and watermarking. Assigned to Landmark Digital Services, the first patent addresses techniques for robust and invariant audio pattern matching. Assigned to KDDI (JP), the second patent addresses techniques for digital watermarking and drift compensation. 7,627,477,... Read more →