Managing Rights Management

Sony and LG Reissued DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management and both are Reissues after a re-examination process at the PTO. Assigned to Sony (JP), the first patent addresses techniques for copy control, for a video signal with copyright signals superimposed as... Read more →

Honeywell Watermarking and Futurewei Fingerprinting Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications concern digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Honeywell, the first application discloses techniques for motion-based image watermarking. Assigned to Futurewei, the second application discloses techniques for content protection in a content delivery network. 20120189157, "Motion-based image watermarking,"... Read more →

Intel Watermarking and Google Fingerprinting Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Intel, the first patent concerns techniques for an advanced watermarking system. Assigned to Google, the second patent concerns techniques for full-length video fingerprinting. 8,230,226, "Advanced watermarking system and method," assigned... Read more →

Two Rights Management Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applicaitons concern aspects of digital rights management. The first application discloses techniques for facilitating client-side digital rights compliance, no assignee given. Assigned to Philips (NL), the second applicaiton discloses techniques for restoring domain management. 20120180105, "Systems, methods,... Read more →

Samsung and ETRI DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Samsung (KR), the first patent addresses techniques for temporarily using DRM contents. Assigned to ETRI (KR), the second patent addresses techniques for executing interoperable digital rights management 8,214,912, "Method and... Read more →

Google and Gracenote Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

Oin Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Apparently assigned to Google, the first application discloses techniques for intervalgram representation of audio for melody recognition. Assigned to Gracenote, the second application discloses techniques for enhancing rendering of a content... Read more →

UNILOC and Symantec Digital Fingerprinting Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to UNILOC (LU), the first patent concerns techniques for secure mobile communications. Assigned to Symantec, the second patent concerns optimized prepopulation of a client side cache in a deduplication environment. 8,213,907, "System... Read more →