Managing Rights Management

Gracenote Fingerprinting and Verance 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 Gracenote, the first application discloses techniques for media channel identification and action with multi-match detection and disambiguation based on matching with differential reference-fingerprint feature. Assigned to... Read more →

Microsoft and Toshiba DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Microsoft, the first patent addresses techniques for social network media sharing with client library. Assigned to Toshiba (JP), the second patent addresses a content transmitter that is... Read more →

Qualcomm Fingerprinting and Raytheon 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 Qualcomm, the first application discloses techniques for semantically sensitive code region hash calculation for programming languages. Assigned to Raytheon, the second application discloses techniques for waveform... Read more →

TCL Research and MUTR 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 TCL Research of America, the first patent addresses techniques for video retrieval based on optimized selected fingerprints. Assigned to MUTR, Llc, the second patent addresses techniques for monitoring a... Read more →

Irdeto and Sirius XM Radio 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 Irdeto (NL), the first of today's applications addresses techniques for providing access to content using encryption keys and DRM clients. Assigned to Sirius XM Radio, the... Read more →

Qualcomm 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 Qualcomm, the first patent addresses countermeasures against audio/video content security domain crossing. Assigned to Toshiba (JP), the second patent addresses in part techniques for copyright protection. 9,736,536, "Countermeasures... Read more →

Facebook and Enswers Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Facebook, the first application addresses techniques for managing silence in audio signal identification. Assigned to Enswers (KR), the second application addresses techniques that at least in part use digital... Read more →

Pulselocker and Konica Minolta 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 Pulselocker, the first patent addresses techniques for limiting access to data by process or computer function with stateless encryption. Assigned to Konica Minolta, the second patent addresses techniques... Read more →

Apple and BrowsePlay DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Apple, the first application discloses techniques for securing user data with DRM keys. Assigned to BrowsePlay, the second application discloses techniques for secure cross-platform video transmission.... Read more →

Google Fingerprinting and Nielsen Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Google,the first patent addresses techniques involving fingerprinting for early detection of policy violating media. Assigned to The Nielsen Company, the second patent addresses techniques for encoding... Read more →