Managing Rights Management

ATT and Fujitsu DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to AT&T, the first patent addresses techniques for digital multimedia recorder with functionality following loss of provider network service. Assigned to Fujitsu, the second patent addresses techniques for using data in... Read more →

Alarm.com Fingerprinting and MorphoTrust Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Alarm.com, the first application discloses techniques for tracking intruders of a monitored property by the unique identifying characteristics or "digital fingerprints" of electronic devices carried by... Read more →

Abecassis and SparkCognition 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 Abecassis, et al., the first patent addresses techniques for displaying video information comprising: a second screen device obtaining current play position data of a video being played on a... Read more →

Boeing and Dropbox Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Boeing, the first application discloses techniques for generating a fingerprint for verification of a reference object. Assigned to Dropbox, the second application discloses techniques for duplicate/near duplicate detection... Read more →

Intertrust and Verizon DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Patents concerns aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Intertrust, the first patent addresses techniques for governing content rendering, protection, and management applications. Assigned to Verizon, the second patent addresses techniques for a virtual set-top box... Read more →

Adobe and August Home 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 Adobe, the first of today's applications discloses techniques for digital rights management and behavioral traits. Assigned to August Home, the second application discloses techniques for an intelligent door lock... Read more →

SoundHound and Gracenote Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to SoundHound, the first patent address techniques using fingerprinting for matching a query against a broadcast stream. Assigned to Gracenote, the second patent addresses techniques for media source identification in... Read more →

Thomson Watermarking and AmpMe Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Thomson (FR), the first application discloses techniques for determining in a 2nd screen whether or not watermarked audio content received from a 1st screen has been stopped, a watermark... Read more →