Managing Rights Management

Yoti and Walmart Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Yoti, the first patent addresses techniques for a digital identity system generating a sharing token for authenticating a bearer to a validator. Assigned... Read more →

Bootstrap Legal and IBM Blockchain and DRM Patent applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Bootstrap Legal, Inc, the first application discloses techniques for creating and managing a smart contract on a distributed ledger.... Read more →

Cisco and Domus Tower Blockchain and Rights Mangement Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents continue the theme of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management. Assigned to Cisco, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for content and service sharing. Assigned to Domus Tower (AU), the second patent addresses... Read more →

GCP IP and Listat Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to GCP IP Holdings, the first application discloses techniques for a distributed overwatch system that allows transactions with government-grade privacy... Read more →

ADB and Gracenote Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to ADB (CH), the first patent addresses techniques for automatic categorization of audio/video content. Assigned to Gracenote, the second patent addresses techniques for identifying video content via color-based fingerprint matching. 10,503,980, "System... Read more →

Vanzetta and Rocket Lawyer Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Robert Vanzetta, the first application discloses techniques to facilitate gamified arbitration of smart contracts. Assigned to Rocket Lawyer, the... Read more →

BofA and SAP Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to BofA, the first patent addresses techniques for bockchain-based property management. Assigned to SAP (DE), the second patent addresses techniques for identity... Read more →

Forcepoint and Aenco Solutions Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications continue the theme of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Forcepoint, the first application discloses techniques for managing blockchain access to user information. Assigned to Aenco Solutions, the second application... Read more →

Google and Apple Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Google, the first patent addresses techniques for detecting abusive stereoscopic videos by generating fingerprints for multiple portions of a video frame. Assigned to Apple, the second patent addresses techniques for recognizing... Read more →

Intertrust and Monegraph Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. This week's Spotlight Applications continue the theme of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Intertrust, the first application discloses techniques for facilitating the secure recording of assertions made by entities tied to identities.... Read more →