Managing Rights Management

IBM and Cisco DRM Patent Applications

ON Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of DRM. Assigned to IBM, the first application discloses techniques that use DRM for implementing commerce between virtual worlds. Apparently assigned to Cisco, the second application discloses techniques for sharing media content assets between... Read more →

Two DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of DRM and protecting copyrighted information. Assigned to SanDisk, the first patent concerns a portable mass storage device with virtual machine activation. Assigned to Crucian Global Services, the second patent concerns a collaborative file access management... Read more →

Two Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern ways to use digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Workshare Technology, the first application discloses techniques for image fingerprinting. The second application discloses techniques for automatically monitoring viewing activities of television signals, no assignee given. 20100124354, "Methods and... Read more →

Sony and Microsoft Digital Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents entail aspects of digital watermarking, which continues to be a hot topic. Assigned to Sony (JP), the first patent concerns the use of digital watermarking for content copy control. Assigned to Microsoft, the second patent concerns the use... Read more →

Digital Watermarking and DIgital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. The first of today's applications discloses techniques for automatically monitoring viewer activities of television signals using digital fingerprints, no assignee given. The second application discloses techniques for image processing using... Read more →

Two Digital Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Lawrence Ginsburg, the first patent concerns the use of a correlation-based system for watermarking continuous digital media. Assigned to Digimarc the second patent concerns techniques for watermarking employing the time-frequency domain.... Read more →

Microsoft and Sony DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of DRM. Assigned to Microsoft, the first application discloses a digital rights management scheme for an on-demand distributed streaming system. Assigned to Sony, the second application discloses techniques for distributing content over a network that... Read more →

Sony Copy Protection and Conditional Access Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents are assigned to Sony. The first patent addresses techniques for sharing copy protection information and for executing copy protected information. The second patent addresses techniques for using conditional access modules. 7,712,144, "Secure device for sharing copy protection identification... Read more →