Managing Rights Management

Comcast and Alipay Blockchain and DRM Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Comcast, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for managing digital rights. Assigned to Alipay (CN),the second patent addresses techniques for blockchain-based infringement detection. 11,362,834, "Systems and methods for managing digital... Read more →

Hessegg and Bee Mortgage App Blockchian Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Hessegg, the first application discloses techniques for an intellectual property trade system using a block chain, comprising at least one trader terminal connected to a block chain network in which trade... Read more →

Nokia and TBS Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Nokia (FI), the first application discloses techniques for data sharing using smart contracts. Assigned to TBS, the second application discloses techniques for providing media content to content consumers for playback and... Read more →

Ma and D3D Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Moses T. Ma, the first application discloses techniques for managing intellectual property using a blockchain. Assigned D3D (KR), the second application discloses techniques for processing copyright and profit distribution of clothes... Read more →

Inveniam and Superfile Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Inveniam, the first application discloses techniques for digital contracts in blockchain environments. Assigned to Supefile, the second application discloses techniques for remote ownership and content control of media files on untrusted... Read more →

IBM, Cisco, and Eluvio Blockchain Patents

Smart contracts, blockchains (distributed ledgers), and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. A rare 3-fur today. Assigned to IBM, the first patent addresses techniques implementing a right to be forgotten on an immutable ledger. Assigned to Cisco, the second patent addresses techniques for decentralized content... Read more →

TBS and ANT Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Turner Broadcasting System, the first patent addresses techniques for providing media content to content consumers for playback and consumption. Assigned to Advanced New Technologies (KY), the second patent addresses techniques for... Read more →

Aurign and IBM Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Aurign, the first patent addresses techniques for tracking authorship attribution and creating music publishing agreements from metadata. Assigned to IBM, the second patent addresses techniques for ad-hoc trusted groups on a... Read more →

ATT and PayPal Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to AT&T, the first patent addresses techniques for managing dynamic pricing of media content through blockchain. Assigned to PayPal, the second patent addresses techniques for blockchain-enabled targeted content systems. 11,153,621, "System and... Read more →

TTI and Avila Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Techtonic Technology Innovation (HK), the first application discloses techniques for time stamping and transferring intellectual property right. Assigned to Avila, the second application discloses techniques for a secure messaging service with... Read more →

NEC and ANT Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to NEC (JP), the first patent addresses techniques for securing smart contracts in blockchains. assigned to Advanced New Technologies (KY), the second patent addresses techniques for copyright allocation for blockchain-based work. 11,144,893,... Read more →

Vertigo Studios and Simpsx Technologies Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Vertigo Studios, the first application discloses techniques for interoperable digital social recorder of multi-threaded smart routed media and crypto asset compliance and payment systems and methods. Assigned to Simpsx Technologies, the... Read more →

Eluvio and Mythical Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Elivio, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for a decentralized system for security and access control associated with digital content. Assigned to Mythical, the second patent addresses techniques for facilitating... Read more →

Huawei and Northern Trust Blockchain and DRM Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Huawei, the first patent addresses techniques for copyright rights defense detection. Assigned to Northern Trust, the second patent addresses techniques for digital identity management and permission controls within distributed network nodes.... Read more →

Nielsen and CMT Watermarking Patent Applications

Today's Spotlight Applications address digital watermarking and steganography ("hidden writing"). Assigned to Nielsen, the first application discloses techniques for using steganographically-encoded time information as basis to establish a time offset. Assigned to Cmt Research (ZA), the second application discloses a digital watermarking techniques for embedding information in and extracting information... Read more →

Aurign and Factom Blockchain and Smart Contracts Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Aurign, the first application discloses techniques for tracking authorship attribution and creating music publishing agreements from metadata. Assigned to Factom, the second application discloses techniques for digital or "smart" contracts executing... Read more →

Two ANT Blockchain-based Patents

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... Read more →

ANT and USPS Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, NFTs, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Advanced New Technologies Co., (KY), the first application discloses techniques for issuing reward to work publisher on the basis of blockchain. Assigned to the USPS, the second of today's applications... Read more →

Beatdapp and CEA Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Beatdapp (CA), the first of today's Spotlight Patents addresses techniques for scalably tracking media playback using blockchain. Assigned to CEA (FR), the second patent addresses techniques for accessing anonymized data. 11,095,457,... Read more →

TuneGO and AiMi Blockchain and Music Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, NFTs, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to TuneGO, the first application discloses techniques for tokenized media content management. Assigned to AiMi, the second application discloses techniques for block-chain ledger based tracking of generated music content. 20210248214, "Tokenized... Read more →

Two ANT Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. The first of today's patents addresses techniques for reading data based on plurality of blockchain networks. The second patent addresses techniques for identifying copyrighted material using embedded copyright information. 11,086,849, "Methods and systems... Read more →

Eluvio and HYPR Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Eluvio, the first patent addresses techniques for a decentralized content fabric (also see Eluvio's 11,063,865 which issued today). Assigned to HYPR, the second patent addresses techniques for federated identity management with... Read more →

Adobe and Nielsen Fingerprinting and Watermarking Patents

Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking (a form of steganography). Assigned to Adobe, the first patent addresses techniques for content creation, fingerprints, and watermarks. Assigned to Nielsen, the second patent addresses techniques for using steganographically-encoded time information as basis to establish a time offset, to... Read more →

DISH and Salesforce Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to DISH, the first application discloses techniques for content anti-piracy management. Assigned to salesforce.com, the second application discloses techniques for implementing super community and community sidechains with consent management for distributed ledger... Read more →

Eluvio and ANT Blockchain and Rights Management Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Eluvio, the first application discloses techniques for implementing aspects of a decentralized content fabric. Assigned to ANT, the second application discloses techniques for blockchain-based copyright protection. 20210112117, "Decentralized content fabric," assigned... Read more →

SmartAxiom and Whoborn Blockchain and Rights Management Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents continue our theme of blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to SmartAxiom, the first patent addresses techniques for enabling IOT security using a decentralized IOT security platform that leverages the advanced... Read more →

Theta Labs and A.N.T. Blockchain and Rights Management Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications continue our theme of blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Theta Labs, the first application discloses techniques for blockchain incentivized data streaming and delivery over a decentralized network.... Read more →

Beatdapp and Advanced New Tech Blockchain and Rights Management Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents continue our theme of blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Beatdapp, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for continuous tracking of media playback using blockchain. Assigned to Advanced New... Read more →

Advanced New Tech and Intensity Analytics Blockchain and Rights Management Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents continue our theme of blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Advanced New Technologies (Alibaba?), the first patent addresses techniques for blockchain-based copyright distribution. Assigned to Intensity Analytics Corporation, the second patent addresses... Read more →

Mixonium and Alibaba Blockchain and Rights Management Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Mixonium, the first application discloses techniques for managing and sharing digital content and services. Assigned to Alibaba, the second application discloses... Read more →