Managing Rights Management

Disney and Samsung DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Disney, the first patent addresses techniques for interoperable DRM. Assigned to Samsung, the second patent addresses techniques for processing digital rights objects. 8,190,918, "Interoperable digital rights management," assigned to Disney.... Read more →

Two 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 for trading unused digital rights. The second application discloses techniques for identity management in wireless devices, no assignee given. 20120130900, "System... Read more →

Intertrust and Microsoft DRM Patents

On Tuedays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Intertrust, the first patent addresses aspects of a trusted clearinghouse infrastructure for secure electronic commerce. Assigned to Microsoft, the second patent addresses a digital rights management system protecting consumer privacy.... Read more →

Samsung 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 Samsung, the first application dislcloses techniques for managing digital rights through hooking a kernel native API. Assigned to Microsoft, the second application discloses a file system is configured... Read more →

NetApp and Intel Digital Fingerprinting Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to NetApp, the first patent addresses techniques for eliminating duplicate data by generating data fingerprints using adaptive fixed-length window. Assigned to Intel, the second patent addresses cluster-based fingerprinting algorithms. 8,180,740, "System and... Read more →

NTT And Arjowiggins 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 NTT (JP), the first application discloses techniques for embedding and detecting an electronic watermark. Assigned to Arjowiggins Security (FR), the second application discloses sectional documents comprising a structure equipped... Read more →

ConDel and General Instrument DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Apparently assigned to Condel Technologies (TW), the first patent presents techniques for locally generating a license and activating a DRM agent. Assigned to General Instrument, the second patent presents techniques for provisioning... Read more →

Sony and Ericsson DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Sony (JP), the first application discloses techniques for Digital Rights Management (DRM) domain recommendation and selection based on a user's social graphs. Assigned to Ericsson, the second application... Read more →

Sony and Tracer Detection Watermarking Patents

On Tuedays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Sony (JP), the first patent addresses information capable of tracing a content distribution route, such as a user ID of a content destination, a content ID, a content provider ID, and... Read more →