Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Both assigined to Advanced New Technologies (ANT), the first patent addresses techniques for blockchain-based content verification. The second addresses techniques for identifying copyrighted material using copyright information embedded in electronic files.
11,108,568, "Blockchain-based content verification," assigned to Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd. (KY)
Abstract
This disclosure relates to blockchain-based content verification. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, from a client device of a signer, a target transaction request for triggering presentation of a target electronic document. A smart contract for content verification of the target electronic document is invoked in response to receiving the target transaction request. A content verification program declared in the smart contract is executed. The executing includes reading content of the target electronic document from a blockchain and performing content verification on the target electronic document based on the content of the target electronic document read from the blockchain. A content verification result and the content of the target electronic document is returned to the client device for presentation to the signer.
11,106,766, "Identifying copyrighted material using copyright information embedded in electronic files," assigned to Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd. (KY)
Abstract
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for embedding copyright information in one or more pages for presenting digital content. One of the methods includes generating, by a computing device, a unique identifier (ID) based on copyright information associated with the digital content; identifying one or more attributes associated with a page design of one or more blank pages of an electronic file; embedding the unique ID in the one or more blank pages by changing the one or more attributes to be representative of the unique ID; allocating the digital content to at least one of the one or more information-embedded pages; and distributing, by the computing device, the one or more information-embedded pages allocated with the digital content to the blockchain network.
