Managing Rights Management

General Instrument and Motorola 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 General Instrument, the first application discloses techniques using digital rights management protection for content identified using a social tv service. Assigned to Motorola, the second application discloses techniques... Read more →

LMP Media and Sony DRM Issued Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO publishes newly issued patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to LMP Media, LLC, the first patent concerns the use of DRM in an electronic media distribution system. Assigned to Sony, the second patent concerns techniques for distributing protected and... Read more →

Adobe Fingerprinting and Verance Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Adobe, the first application discloses techniques incorporating fingerprinting for fast computation of content recommendations. Assigned to Verance, the second application discloses techniques for remote control signaling using audio... Read more →

Panasonic and Canon Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Panasonic (JP), the first patent addresses techniuqes for embedding/detecting a digital watermark. Assigned to Canon, the second patent addresses an image processing system detecting print job log information embedded as a... Read more →

IBM Watermarking and Civolution Fingerprinting Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to IBM, the first application discloses techniques for virtual world embedded security watermarking. Assigned to Civolution (NL), the second application discloses techniques that at least in part entail fingerprinting... Read more →

Oki and VMWare DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address asepcts of digital rights management. Assigned to Oki (JP), the first patent concerns a content playing system for reliably determining an authentication of a playing terminal. Assigned to VMWare, the second patent concerns a virtualization system for... Read more →

General Instrument and ZTE Conditional Access Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of conditional access systems. Assigned to General Instrument, the first application discloses techniques for processing, handling, and forwarding conditional access messages to devices. Assigned to ZTE Corporation, the second application discloses techniques for updating... Read more →

Sony and Panasonic DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Sony, the first patent concerns techniques for content delivery, content recording, and content reproduction. Assigned to Panasonic (JP), the second patent concerns techniques for a content usage rule management system.... Read more →

ConDel and Rovi 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 ConDel (TW), the first application discloses techniques for locally generating license and activating DRM agent. Assigned to Rovi, the second application discloses techniques for tunable distribution of content.... Read more →

Network Engines Fingerprinting and Quiro Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digtial fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Network Engines, the first patent addresses techniques including fingerprinting for management of software installation and execution. Assigned to Quiro Holdings, the second patent addresses an interconnect device to enable compliance... Read more →