Managing Rights Management

Microsoft and Huawei DRM Patent Applications

Happy Thanksgiving to all. Notwithstanding the holiday, the PTO publishes new pending patent applications on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Microsoft, the first application discloses techniques for managing distributed operating system physical resources. Assigned to Huawei (CN), the second application discloses... Read more →

Intertrust and Philips DRM Patents

Tuesday the PTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concerns aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Intertrust Technologies, the first patent addresses an integrated, modular array of administrative and support services for electronic commerce and electronic rights and transaction management. Assigned to Philips (NL), the second patent... Read more →

Two Digimarc Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

Thursdays the PTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and both are assigned to Digimarc. The first application discloses techniques for content recognition and synchronization using local caching. The second application discloses techniques for using images of physical products. 20130308818, "Content... Read more →

BYU and Adobe Digital Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued on Tuesdays by the PTO. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to BYU, the first of today's patent addresses techniques for robustly watermarking digital media. Assigned to Adobe, the second patent addresses techniques for video watermarking with fast detection. 8,588,461, "Robust... Read more →

Omnifone 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 to Ominfone, the first application discloses techniques for enabling digital music content to be downloaded to and used on a portable wireless computing device. Apparently assigned to Cox Communications, the... Read more →

Quirio and Adobe DRM Patents

Tuesdays the PTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Quirio Holdings, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for synchronizing multiple playback device timing utilizing DRM encoding. Assigned to Adobe, the second patent addresses techniques for digital rights management with... Read more →

Two Intertrust Watermarking Patent Applications

Thursdays the PTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and both are assigned to Intertrust Technologies.The first application discloses using steganographic ["hidden writing"] techniques for securely delivering electronic digital rights management control information over insecure communication channels. The second application discloses... Read more →

Yuvad Technologies and Dolby Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are published on Tuesdays by the PTO. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concerns aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Yuvad Technologies (CN), the first patent concerns techniques for identifying motion video/audio content. Assigned to Dolby Laboratories, the second patent concerns techniques 8,577,077, "System for identifying motion video/audio content,"... Read more →