Managing Rights Management

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.