Managing Rights Management

Irdeto and Cox DRM Patent Applications

Thursdays the PTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned ti Irdeto (NL), the first application discloses techniques in a conditional access system for securely obtaining a control word in a chip set of a receiver, the control word used... Read more →

Dolby and Digimarc Digital Fingerprinting Patents

Tuesdays the PTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Dolby, the first patent addresses techniques for projection based hashing that balances robustness and sensitivity of media fingerprints. Assigned to Digimarc, the second patent addresses techniques for generating and utilizing content signatures.... Read more →

Enswers and Set Media Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

Thursdays the PTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assinged to Enswers (KR), the first application discloses techniques for generating video markup data on the basis of video fingerprint information. Assigned to Set Media, the second application discloses techniques for matching... Read more →

Fujitsu and OSR DRM Patents

Tuesdays the PTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Fujitsu (JP), the first patent addresses techniques for use right collective management. Assigned to Open Systems Resources, the second patent addresses techniques for managing access to a resource. 8,533,725, "Information processing... Read more →

Two Sony DRM Patent Applications

Thursdays the Patent Office publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management and both are assigned to Sony. The first application discloses DRM techniques for live streaming based on trusted relationships. The second application discloses a security module that is provided in... Read more →

KAIST and Google Digital Fingerprinting Patents

Tuesdays the PTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KR), the first patent concerns techniques for producing multimedia fingerprint based on quantum hashing. Assigned to Google, the second patent concerns techniques for full-length... Read more →

Elwha and Fraunhofer Watermarking Patent Applications

Thursdays the Patent Office publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Elwha LLC, the first application discloses techniques for scanning a user environment and evaluating data of interest. A "William Gates" is listed as lead inventor and all of the... Read more →

Intertrust and Seagate DRM Patents

Tuesdays the PTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents deal with aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Intertrust, the first patent concerns trusted and secure techniques for item delivery and execution. Assigned to Seagate, the second patent concerns techniques for anchor-point based digital rights management that provides... Read more →