Managing Rights Management

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 →

Ecosteer and ARM Blockchain and Rights Management Patents

New patents are published by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents continue the theme of blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Ecosteer (IT), the first patent addresses techniques for a multicast encryption scheme for data-ownership platform. Assigned to ARM (GB), the second patent... Read more →

GE and Alibaba Blockchain and Rights Management 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 GE, the first application discloses techniques for the prevention of black-listed parts from being 3D-printed. Assigned to Alibaba, the... Read more →

Coinfirm Blockchain and Alibaba Blockchain and Rights Management Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents continue our theme of blockchain (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Coinfirm Blockchain (PL), the first patent addresses methods for registration of data in a blockchain database and a method for... Read more →

Alibaba and Live Nation Blockchain and Rights Management Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications continue our theme of blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Alibaba, the first application discloses techniques for blockchain-based copyright distribution. Assigned to Live Nation, the second application discloses techniques for... Read more →

DISH and Prescient Innovations Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. This week's Spotlight Applications continue the theme of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to DISH, the first application discloses a content anti-piracy management system and method. Assigned to Prescient Innovations (CA), the second... Read more →

Tencent and Waldo Photos 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 Tencent (CN), the first application discloses techniques for a video detection method, server and storage medium. Assigned to Waldo Photos, the second application discloses techniques for... Read more →