Managing Rights Management

Intralinks and Minolta DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Intralinks, the first patent concerns techniques for managing access to electronic content. Assigned to Minolta, the second patent concerns techniques for a digital rights management system implemented on a scanner.... Read more →

Live Nation and Panasonic 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 Live Nation, the first application discloses techniques for short-range device interactions for facilitating partial uses of clustered access rights. Assigned to Panasonic, the second application discloses... Read more →

Amazon and Google 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 Amazon, the first patent addresses techniques useful for 3D printing data for viewpoint invariant object recognition. Assigned to Google, the second patent addresses techniques for associating audio tracks of... Read more →

Gracenote and Facebook Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspect of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Gracenote, the first application discloses techniques for detecting an event within interactive media including spatialized multi-channel audio content. Assigned to Facebook the second application discloses techniques for... Read more →

Intertrust and Broadcom 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 technologies, the first patent addresses techniques for fragmented file sharing. Assigned to Broadcom, the second patent addresses mobile payTV DRM architectures. 9,344,473, "Methods, systems, and apparatus for... Read more →

Intellectual Discovery and Schneider Electric Industries DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Intellectual Discovery (KR), the first applications discloses methods for providing a license corresponding to encrypted contents to client apparatus and digital rights management conversion system using the methods.... Read more →

Broadcom and Viaccess Conditional Access Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of conditional access systems typically used for DRM in cable systems. Assigned to Broadcom, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for video processing with with a conditional access module. Assigned to Viaccess (FR),... Read more →

Thomson Watermarking and John Hopkins Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications address digital watermarking of 3D objects (as in 3D printing) and fingerprinting as a method of determining software binary code similarities. Assigned to Thomson (FR), the first application discloses techniques for watermarking a three-dimensional object represented... Read more →

MobiTV Watermarking and British Telecom Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to MobiTV, the first patent concerns techniques for scalable watermark insertion for fragmented media stream delivery. Assigned to British Telecom, the second of today's patents concerns techniques for a... Read more →