Managing Rights Management

Western Digital and Rockwell Automation 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 Western Digital, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for a personal multimedia content archive. Assigned to Rockwell Automation, the second patent addresses an architecture for application of... Read more →

Health2047 and Strong Force IOT Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Both of today's Spotlight Applications continue the theme of blockchain (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Health2047, the first patent discloses techniques for trust based access to records via encrypted protocol communications with... Read more →

NBCUniversal and KPN 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 NBCUniversal Media, the first patent addresses techniques for fingerprint-defined segment-based content delivery. Assigned to KPN (NL), the second patent addresses techniques for fingerprint-based inter-destination media synchronization. 10,032,479, "Fingerprint-defined segment-based... Read more →

Barclays and AssetVault Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New patents are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. This week's Spotlight Applications continue the theme of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Barclays (GB), the first application discloses techniques for recording data describing a first entity, the data endorsed by a second... Read more →

BofA and Bao Tran Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to BofA, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for allowing external validation of data in a process data network. Assigned to Bao Tran,... Read more →

IBM and SAP Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New patent applications are published on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications continue the theme of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to IBM, the first application discloses techniques for privacy-preserving transaction validation mechanisms for smart contracts that are included in a ledger. Assigned... Read more →

IBM and Western Digital DRM Patents

New patents are published by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to IBM, the first patent addresses techniques for distributed digital rights-managed file transfer and access control. Assigned to Western Digital, the second patent addresses techniques for legally transferring multimedia... Read more →

Slock.it and FMR Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. We continue our theme of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Slock.it, the first of today's Spotlight Applications discloses techniques for a block-chain enabled service provider system. Assigned to FMR (Fidelity), the... Read more →

IBM and Merck Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. We continue the theme of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. The first of today's Spotlight Patents is assigned to IBM and addresses techniques for a personal ledger blockchain. Assigned to Merck, the second patent addresses... Read more →