Managing Rights Management

Disney and Virginia Venture Industries Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the PTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of watermarking. Assigned to Disney, the first application discloses techniques for overlay-based watermarking for video synchronization with contextual data. Assigned to Virginia Venture Industries, the second application discloses techniques for embedding and... Read more →

Samsung and Adobe 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 Samsung (KR), the first patent addresses techniques for downloading a DRM module. Assigned to Adobe, the second patent addresses techniques for parts-based digital rights management. 9,117,055, "Method and... Read more →

Precisionist Fund and Toshiba DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to the Precisionist Fund, the first application discloses an electronic media distribution system with DRM. Assigned to Toshiba, the second application discloses a semiconductor device with copyright... Read more →

Sony and Google Audio Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the PTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of audio fingerprinting. Assigned to Sony, the first patent addresses techniques for media fingerprinting for social networking. Assigned to Google, the second of today's patents addresses techniques for generating a sequence of audio fingerprints... Read more →

Digimarc and Infosys Digital Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Digimarc, the first application discloses techniques for smartphone payments and transactions using watermarks. Assigned to Infosys (IN), the second application discloses techniques for embedding and extracting a watermark in a... Read more →

Intertrust and Konica Minolta DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Intertrust, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for protecting electronic content from the time it is packaged through the time it is experienced by an end user.... Read more →

Spayce and Intel DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Spayce, the first application discloses a virtual property system for collecting content files associated with a physical object having a unique identifier. Assigned to Intel, the... Read more →

Beamly and Amazon Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued on Tuesdays by the PTO. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Beamly Limited (GB), the first patent addresses techniques for synchronising content with live television. Assigned to Amazon, the second patent addresses techniques for Identifying protected media files. 9,100,718, "System... Read more →