Managing Rights Management

Google and Trend Micro Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Google, the first of today's applications discloses techniques using cross-matching between users and matching against reference data to facilitate content identification. Assigned to Trend Micro (JP), the... Read more →

Morega Systems and NL Systems DRM Patents

New patents are issued on Tuesdays by the USPTO. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Morega Systems, the first patent addresses a client device with application state tracking and methods for use. Assigned to NL Systems, the second patent addresses techniques for transmission... Read more →

Fujian Foxit and Clawd Technologies DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the PTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Fujian Foxit Software Development, the first application discloses a kind of management method for digital rights. Assigned to Clawd Technologies, the second application discloses techniques for... Read more →

Google and Audible Magic Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the PTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Google, the first patent addresses techniques for hierarchical randomized quantization of multi-dimensional features. Assigned to Audible Magic, the second patent addresses techniques for using digital fingerprints to associate data... Read more →

wayStorm and Cisco Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the PTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to wayStorm (TW), the first application discloses an advertisement distribution system and method for controlling operations of mobile electronic device. Assigned to Cisco, the second application discloses techniques... Read more →

Thomson and CSC Holdings DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the PTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Thomson (FR), the first patent addresses techniques for tracking a downloaded digital media file. Assigned to CSC Holdings, the second patent addresses techniques related to flexible video-on-demand viewing... Read more →

Microsoft and SC Intelligent Holding DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the PTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Microsoft, the first application discloses techniques for supporting a plurality of content protection systems in a single container file. Assigned to SC Intelligent Holding Ltd. (FI),... Read more →

Dolby And Synergy Sports Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Dolby, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for storing and searching fingerprints derived from media content based on a classification of the media content. Assigned to Synergy Sports... Read more →

ITRI and Cellco-Verizon DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless, the first application discloses techniques for secure element-centric digital rights management. Assigned to the Industrial Technology Research Institute (TW), the second application discloses techniques... Read more →