Managing Rights Management

Thomson Fingerprinting and Digimarc Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Thomson, the first applications discloses techniques for clustering and synchronizing multimedia contents. Assigned to Digimarc, the second applications discloses techniques for encoding, decoding and interpreting auxiliary... Read more →

NYU and Ericsson DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. This week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to NYU, the first patent addresses techniques for streamloading content, such as video content for example, by both downloading enhancement layers of the content and streaming a base layer of... Read more →

Samsung and CenturyLink IP 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 Samsung (KR), the first application discloses techniques for downloadable DRM in a trusted execution environment. Assigned to CenturyLink IP, the second application discloses techniques for sharing user content through... Read more →

Intertrust and Toshiba 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 patent addresses techniques using cryptography to protect secure computing environments. Assigned to Toshiba, the second patent addresses techniques for transmitting content items. 9,165,135, "Systems and... Read more →

Hon Hai Precision and Sony Digital Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the PTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Hon Hai Precision Industry, the first application discloses a watermark loading device and processes. Apparently assigned to Sony, the second application discloses techniques for robust watermarking in multimedia content.... Read more →

HP Watermarking and Google Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to HP, the first patent addresses techniques for digital watermarking using saturation patterns. Assigned to Google, the second patent addresses techniques for adding pitch shift resistance to an audio... Read more →

D2L and Intel DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to D2L, the first application discloses techniques for digital rights enforcement. Assigned to Intel, the second application discloses content protection for Data as a Service (DaaS). 20150288692,... Read more →

Microsoft and Panasonic 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 Microsoft, the first patent addresses techniques for provisioning a computing system for digital rights management. Assigned to Panasonic (JP), the second patent addresses a content reproduction system, information... Read more →

XCINEX Watermarking and Verizon Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Last Thursday's Spotlight Applications concern digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to XCINEX, the first application discloses techniques for viewing movies. Assigned to Verizon, the second application discloses audio fingerprinting for advertisement detection. 20150281774, "Techniques for Viewing Movies," assigned... Read more →