Managing Rights Management

Two Intertrust DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management and both are assigned to Intertrust. The first application discloses techniques for dynamic, local targeted advertising. the second application discloses techniques for content sharing. 20100293050, "Dynamic, Local Targeted Advertising Systems... Read more →

NullRing and Sony DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to NullRing, the first patent pertains to techniques for limiting access to sensitive data. Assigned to Sony, the second patent pertains to key sharing techniques for DRM interoperability. 7,840,795, "Method and... Read more →

Two Digital Fingerprint Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Technology, Patents & Licensing, Inc., the first application discloses techniques for video entity recognition in compressed digital video streams. The second application discloses techniques for transaction assessment and/or authentication. 20100290667, "Video... Read more →

Microsoft and IBM DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Microsoft, the first patent concerns techniques for enforcing advertisement playback for downloaded media content. Assigned to IBM, the second patent concerns techniques for managing access to physical data via a data abstraction... Read more →

Philips Fingerprinting and Microsoft Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Philips (NL), the first application discloses techniques for identifying elementary content portions from an edited content. Assigned to Microsoft, the second application discloses techniques for tamper-resistant text stream watermarking.... Read more →

Sony Ericsson and Yamaha DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Sony Ericsson, the first patent concerns techniques for multimedia distribution and/or playing using separate resolution-enhancing supplemental data. Assigned to Yamaha, the second patent concerns techniques based on copyright for inhibiting music recording.... Read more →

Comcast and Microsoft DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Comcast, the first application discloses the use of DRM in an Internet Protocol (IP) to Video-on-Demand (VOD) gateway. Assigned to Microsoft, the second application discloses techniques for issuing... Read more →

Comcast and Broadcom Conditional Access Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents are related to aspects of conditional access systems. Assigned to Comcast, the first patent addresses techniques for provisioning a set-top box without essential involvement of the conditional access system. Assigned to Broadcom, the second patent addresses techniques that... Read more →