Managing Rights Management

IBM and Google 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 IBM, the first application discloses techniques for digital rights management (DRM) with steps and means for receiving a registration request from one of a plurality of... Read more →

Adobe and EMC 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 Adobe, the first patent addresses techniques for a digital rights management retrieval system. Assigned to EMC, the second patents addresses data classification for digital rights management. 9,325,680, "Digital... Read more →

Samsung and Sony Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Samsung (KR), the first application discloses techniques for providing information in part using digital fingerprints. Assigned to Sony (JP), the second application discloses techniques for media fingerprinting for content... Read more →

Cisco and Fortinet Watermarking Patents

New patents are published on Tuesdays by the USPTO. Both of this week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Cisco, the first patent addresses techniques for embedding a watermark in block encrypted content. Assigned to Fortinet, the second patent addresses techniques for Data Leak Prevention (DLP) in... Read more →

Verimatrix and Google DRM Patent Applications

The USPTO publishes new pending patent applications on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Verimatrix, the first of today's applications discloses techniques for digital rights domain management for secure content distribution in a local network. Assigned to Google, the second of today's... Read more →

Google and Time Warner Cable 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 Google, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for application-driven playback of offline encrypted content with unaware DRM module. Assigned to Time Warner Cable, the second patent addresses... Read more →

Fortinet and Toshiba Digital Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Fortinet, the first of today's applications discloses techniques for data leak protection based in part on watermarking. Assigned to Toshiba, the second patent discloses techniques for digital... Read more →

Disney and Broadcom DRM Patents

The USPTO issues new patents on Tuesdays. This week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Disney, the first patent addresses techniques related to a digital receipt for use with an interoperable keychest. Assigned to Broadcom, the second patent addresses techniques for the automatic conversion of multimedia... Read more →