Managing Rights Management

Enswers Fingerprinting and Thomson Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Enswers (KR), the first of today's applications discloses techniques for advertisement detection based on fingerprints. Assigned to Thomson, the second application discloses techniques for increasing the... Read more →

Intertrust and Bank of America 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 address techniques for protection of streamed media content. Assigned to Bank of America, the second patent addresses techniques for provisioning access rights... Read more →

Apple and TWC Conditional Access Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of conditional access systems often deployed in cable television systems. Assigned to Apple, the first application discloses techniques for provision of a lease for streaming content. Assigned to Time Warner Cable,... Read more →

Google and Cellco Partnership 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 patent addresses techniques for identify one or more copyright-infringing time slices in a plurality of audio sequential time slices. Assigned to Cellco Partnership, the second... Read more →

iSpot.TV and Sorenson Media Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published in Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to iSpot.TV, the first application discloses techniques for modifying advertisements. Assigned to Sorenson Media, the second application discloses techniques for detecting channel change in automatic content recognition fingerprint matching. 20160366492, "Advertisement modification method... Read more →

Digimarc Watermarking and TiVo 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 Digimarc, the first patent addresses techniques for feature-based watermark localization in digital capture systems. Assigned to TiVo, the second patent addresses techniques for annotating media content and for... Read more →

Charter and Geofeedia DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. This weeks Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Charter Communications, the first application discloses techniques for content streaming and downloading. Assigned to Geofeedia, the second application discloses techniques for targeted messaging, workflow management, and digital rights management for... Read more →

Nielsen and DivX Digital Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Nielsen, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for down-mixing compensation for audio watermarking. Assigned to DivX, the second patent addresses techniques for session based watermarking of media content... Read more →

Dell and TiVo Digital Fingerprint Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Dell, the first application discloses techniques for using content-based encryption keys. Assigned to TiVo, the second application discloses techniques for deriving fingerprints for media content that is being watched by a user. 20160352511, "Content-based... Read more →