Managing Rights Management

Cable Labs and Clause DRM and Blockchain Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays Today we continue our Spotlight Application focus on digital rights management broadly construed and blockchain (distributed ledger) technologies. Assigned to Cable Labs (see also these), the first of today's applications discloses techniques for blockchain virtualization and scalability. Assigned to Clause, the second application discloses techniques for forming, storing, managing, and executing contracts.

Pulselocker and IBM 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 Pulselocker, the first application discloses techniques for limiting access to data by process or computer function with stateless encryption. Assigned to IBM, the second application discloses techniques for detecting usage of copyrighted video content using object recognition.

Comcast and CryptoExperts Conditional Access Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of conditional access systems used most often in cable, IPTV, and satellite media distribution systems. Assigned to Comcast, the first patent addresses techniques for reconfigurable access network encryption architecture. Assigned to CryptoExperts SAS (FR), the second patent addresses techniques for conditional access to a digital content, associated terminal and subscriber device.

MarkAny and Tencent DRM Patent Applications

New patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to MarkAny (KR), the first application discloses DRM systems for protecting enterprise confidentiality. Assigned to Tencent (CN), the second application discloses techniques for processing multimedia files

The Real McCoy and Comcast DRM and Blockchain Patent Applications

We continue the theme of patent applications combining blockchain (distributed ledger) and digital rights management broadly understood. Assigned to The Real McCoy, the first of today's Spotlight Applications address techniques for establishing, securing and transferring computer readable information using peer-to-peer public and private key cryptography. Assigned to Comcast, the second of today's applications addresses techniques for distributed data access control.

Cambridge Blockchain and Manifold Technology Blockchain and DRM Patents

This posting continues the theme of blockchain (or distributed ledger) and digital rights management understood broadly. Assigned to Cambridge Blockchain, LLC, the first of this week's Spotlight Patents addresses techniques for managing digital identities. Assigned to Manifold Technology, the second patent addresses techniques for providing a cryptographic platform for exchanging information.

Irdeto and Sirius XM Radio 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 Irdeto (NL), the first of today's applications addresses techniques for providing access to content using encryption keys and DRM clients. Assigned to Sirius XM Radio, the second application addresses techniques for content caching services in satellite and satellite/IP content delivery systems where metadata may include DRM information.

Pulselocker and Konica Minolta 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 Pulselocker, the first patent addresses techniques for limiting access to data by process or computer function with stateless encryption. Assigned to Konica Minolta, the second patent addresses techniques for digital rights management for emails and attachments.

Apple and BrowsePlay DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Apple, the first application discloses techniques for securing user data with DRM keys. Assigned to BrowsePlay, the second application discloses techniques for secure cross-platform video transmission.

Encryptics and Sony DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Encryptics, LLC, the first application discloses techniques for digital rights management of documents. Assigned to Sony, the second application discloses techniques for statutory license restricted digital media playback on portable devices.

Apple and TWC Conditional Access Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of conditional access systems often deployed in cable television systems.  Assigned to Apple, the first application discloses techniques for provision of a lease for streaming content. Assigned to Time Warner Cable, the second application discloses techniques for content protection mechanisms across a network using a download delivery paradigm.

Nielsen and DivX Digital Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Nielsen, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for down-mixing compensation for audio watermarking. Assigned to DivX, the second patent addresses techniques for session based watermarking of media content using encrypted content streams.

Dell and TiVo Digital Fingerprint Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Dell, the first application discloses techniques for using content-based encryption keys. Assigned to TiVo, the second application discloses techniques for deriving fingerprints for media content that is being watched by a user.

Amazon and Samsung 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 Amazon, the first patent addresses techniques for secure key provisioning. Assigned to Samsung, the second patent addresses techniques for controlling access between home device and external server in home network system.

TWC and Qualcomm DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Time Warner Cable, the first application discloses techniques for downloadable security and protection. Assigned to Qualcomm, the second application discloses countermeasures against audio/video content security domain crossing.

Digimarc and paSafeShare Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Digimarc, the first patent addresses techniques for watermarking and signal recognition for managing and sharing captured content, metadata discovery and related arrangements. Assigned to paSafeShare, the second patent addresses techniques including watermarking for securely distributing content.

Intel and Microsoft 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 Intel, the first patent addresses techniques for platform-hardened digital rights management key provisioning. Assigned to Microsoft, the second patent addresses techniques for media decoding control with hardware-protected digital rights management.

Intellectual Discovery and Schneider Electric Industries DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Intellectual Discovery (KR), the first applications discloses methods  for providing a license corresponding to encrypted contents to client apparatus and digital rights management conversion system using the methods. Assigned to Schneider Electric Industries (FR), the second application discloses techniques for authentication and authorization in an industrial control system using a single digital certificate.

Adobe and EMC 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 Adobe, the first patent addresses techniques for a digital rights management retrieval system. Assigned to EMC, the second patents addresses data classification for digital rights management.

Cisco and Fortinet Watermarking Patents

New patents are published on Tuesdays by the USPTO. Both of this week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Cisco, the first patent addresses techniques for embedding a watermark in block encrypted content. Assigned to Fortinet, the second patent addresses techniques for Data Leak Prevention (DLP) in an enterprise network.

Google and Time Warner Cable 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 Google, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for application-driven playback of offline encrypted content with unaware DRM module. Assigned to Time Warner Cable, the second patent addresses techniques for control of data and content protection mechanisms across a network using a download delivery paradigm

Disney and Broadcom DRM Patents

The USPTO issues new patents on Tuesdays. This week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Disney, the first patent addresses techniques related to a digital receipt for use with an interoperable keychest. Assigned to Broadcom, the second patent addresses techniques for the automatic conversion of multimedia information from a first format to a second format in a broadband access gateway and/or network-based server.

Microsoft and IBM 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 Microsoft, the first patent addresses a domain manager for extending digital-media longevity. Assigned to IBM, the second patent addresses a dynamic negotiation and authorization system to record rights-managed content.

Wistaria Trading and Google Digital Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Wistaria Trading [Hi Scott], the first patent addresses techniques for utilizing data reduction in steganographic and cryptographic systems. Assigned to Google, the second patent addresses the use of watermarking in identifying portions of a media stream.

Google and Panasonic 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 Google, the first application discloses a secure challenge system for verifying access rights to media content. Assigned to Panasonic (JP), the second application discloses  a content distribution method which allows a source device to safely distribute copyrighted content.

Xylon and CenturyLink 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 Xylon, the first patent addresses techniques for data copyright management. Assigned to CenturyLink, the second patent addresses techniques for distributing content to subscribers of a communications service provider.

Qualcomm and Rockwell Automation DRM Patent Applications

New patent applications are published on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Qualcomm, the first application discloses DRM for video content tracking.  Assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies, the second application discloses techniques for applying DRM to industrial automation devices including programmable logic controllers (PLCs), I/O devices, and communication adapters.

Intertrust and Toshiba 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 Intertrust, the first patent addresses techniques using cryptography to protect secure computing environments. Assigned to Toshiba, the second patent addresses techniques for transmitting content items.

Microsoft and Cox DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the PTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Microsoft, the first patent addresses techniques for digital rights management with persistently-unencrypted content. Assigned to Cox Communications, the second patent addresses techniques for providing a separable digital rights management application.

Thomson and Cisco Watermarking Patent Applications

New patent applications are published by the PTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking.  Assigned to Thomson (FR), the first application discloses the use of watermarking techniques in second screen systems and devices. Assigned to Cisco, the second application discloses techniques for encryption-resistant watermarking.

Two Fasoo DRM Patents

New patents are issued on Tuedays. This weeks Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management and both are assigned to Fasoo (KR).  The first patent addresses techniques for managing digital rights using virtualization. The second patent addresses techniques for digital rights management about a compressed file.

Dataguise and Irdeto DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thurdays by the PTO. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management and related concepts. Assigned to Dataguise, the first application discloses techniques for access-controlled decryption in big data stores. Assigned to Irdeto (NL), the second application discloses techniques for controlling use of encrypted content by a plurality of client terminals each provided with a digital rights management (DRM) client and a content decryption module separate to the DRM client.

Vividas and Apple DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the PTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Vividas Technologies (AU), the first of today's patents addresses techniques for transferring content to a remote device. Assigned to Apple, the second patent addresses techniques for decoupling rights in a digital content unit from download.

Nagravision and Irdeto Conditional Access Patent Applications

The PTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of conditional access systems for media distubion and consumption. Assigned to Nagravision (CH), the first application discloses a technique, cryptographic system and security module for descrambling content packets of a digital transport stream. Assigned to Irdeto (NL), the second application discloses techniques for constructing a transport stream.

MobiTV and Cisco Digital Watermarking Patents

The PTO issues new patents on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to MobiTV, the first patent addresses techniques for watermarking of digital video. Assigned to Cisco, the second patent addresses techniques for robust watermarking.

Protection Technologies and Broadcom DRM Patent Applications

Thursday the PTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Protection Technologies Research, LLC (RU), the first application discloses techniques for unified end user license management in a DRM system. Assigned to Broadcom, the second patent discloses a mobile PayTV DRM architecture.

Intel and Cisco DRM Patent Applications

Thursdays the PTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Intel, the first application discloses a digital rights management (DRM) locker. Assigned to Cisco, the second application discloses techniques for plaintext injection attack protection.

Two Samsung DRM Patents

Tuesdays the PTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management and both are assigned to Samsung.  The first patent concerns techniques for motion picture file encryption method and digital rights management method using the same. The second patent concerns techniques for managing digital rights management contents in portable terminal.

Irdeto and Fraunhofer Digital Watermarking Patents

Tuesdays the PTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Irdeto (NL), the first patent addresses techniques for the cryptographic processing of content. Assigned to Fraunhofer (DE), the second patent addresses a watermark generator, watermark decoder, and method for providing binary message data.

Comcast and Digital Keystone Conditional Access Systems

Thursdays the PTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of this week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of conditional access systems such as cable TV and IPTV. Assigned to Comcast, the first application discloses a reconfigurable access network encryption architecture.  Assigned to Digital Keystone, the second application discloses techniques for for conditional access and digital rights management

ETRI and Nagravision Conditional Access Patents

The PTO issues new patents on Tuesdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of conditional access systems typically employed in cable and IPTV systems. Assigned to the ETRI (KR), the first patent addresses techniques for a downloadable conditional access system. Assigned to Nagravision, the second patent addresses techniques for traceable decryption of bandwidth-efficient broadcast of encrypted messages and security module revocation.

Cox and Samsung DRM Patents

The Patent Office issues new patents on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Cox Communications, the first patent addresses techniques for providing a separable digital rights management application. Assigned to Samsung (KR), the second patent addresses techniques for editing digital rights management contents in portable terminal

Apple and United Video DRM Patent Applications

Thursdays the PTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Apple, the first application discloses techniques for key space division and sub-key derivation for mixed media digital rights management content. Assigned to United Video Properties, the second application discloses techniques for managing digital rights based on a union or intersection of individual rights.

Sony and ITRI DRM Patent Applications

Thursdays the PTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Sony, the first application discloses techniques for digital rights management of streaming contents and services. Assigned to the Industrial Technology Research Institute (TW), the second application discloses techniques for enciphering/ deciphering digital rights management object

Two Intertrust DRM Patents

Tuesdays the Patent Office issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management and both are assigned to Intertrust Technologies. The first of today's patents addresses trusted storage systems including a trusted database. The second patent addresses techniques for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection.

Sony Ericsson and Nokia DRM Patents

Tuesdays the Patent Office issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents both address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Sony Ericsson, the first patent concerns techniques for distributing content to a mobile device with digital rights.  Assigned to Nokia, the second patent concerns techniques for managing access rights to information spaces.

Apple and Adobe DRM Patent Applications

Thursdays the Patent Office publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Apple, the first application discloses a client-server system with security for untrusted server. Apparently assigned to Adobe, the second application discloses techniques for transparently authenticating a user to a digital rights management entity.