Managing Rights Management

SAP and Managed Audience Share Solutions DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights managment. Assigned to SAP (DE), the first application discloses techniques for generating constraints for use in access control. Assigned to Managed Audience Share Solutions LLC, the second application discloses techniques for... Read more →

Two Apple DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management and both are assigned to Apple. The first patent addresses techniques for decoupling rights in a digital content unit from download. The second patent addresses content protection information using family of quadratic... Read more →

NBC Universal and Microsoft Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the UPSTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to NBC Universal, the first application discloses techniques for digital watermark detection in 2D-3D content conversion. Assigned to Microsoft, the second application discloses the use of a watermark to identify... Read more →

LG and Britesmart DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to LG Electronics (KR), the first patent addresses techniques for an DRM interoperable system. Assigned to Britesmart, the second patent addresses techniques to use, share and manage digital content by assigning... Read more →

Thales and Wistaria Trading Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Thales (FR), the first application discloses techniques for embedding a binary sequence in a compressed video stream. Apparently assigned to Wistaria Trading, the second application discloses optimization methods for... Read more →

Nokia and SAP Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays, the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Nokia, the first patent concerns techniques including watermarking for authenticating digital signals. Assigned to SAP, the second patent concerns techniques including watermarking for securing documents with electronic signatures. 8,077,904, "Apparatuses, computer... Read more →

Dolby Fingerprinting and Intertrust 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 Dolby Labs, the first application discloses techniques for projection based hashing that balances robustness and sensitivity of media fingerprints. Assigned to Intertrust, the second aplication discloses techniques for software... Read more →

Thomson and Google Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Thomson Licensing, the first patent addresses techniques including digital watermaking for copy protection of digital data stored on a medium. Assigned to Google, the second patent addresses techniques including digital watermarking... Read more →

Micorosoft and Sony Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Microsoft, the first application discloses a claim based content reputation service. Assigned to Sony, the second application discloses techniques for recognizing compact discs and issuing corresponding credits. 20110296187, "Claim... Read more →