Managing Rights Management

Pilab and nChain Smart Contract Patent Applications

Smart contracts (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Pilab (KR), the first application discloses techniques for automatically splitting smart contracts. Assigned to nChain, the second application discloses techniques that allow for multiple parties to jointly generate or jointly agree... Read more →

Three EMC Smart Contract Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. The first EMC application discloses techinques for storing digital data in DNA storage using blockchain and destination-side deduplication using smart contracts. The second application discloses techniques for securely archiving digital data in DNA... Read more →

BofA and EMC Smart Contract Patents

Smart contracts, (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to BofA, the first patent addresses techniques for executing, securing, and non-repudiation of pooled conditional smart contracts over distributed blockchain network. Assigned to EMC, the second patent addresses electronic agreement data management... Read more →

Cloudinary and Theta Labs Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Cloudinary (IL), the first of today's applications discloses techniques for providing authenticity and rights verification mechanism for media content and for its derived versions. Assigned to Theta Labs, the second application... Read more →

8 Plus Ventures and IBM Blockchain and Rights Management Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. This week's Spotlight Patents continue the theme of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Eight Plus Ventures, the first patent addresses techniques for an image chain of title management. Assigned to IBM, the second patent... Read more →

Yoti and Walmart Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Yoti, the first patent addresses techniques for a digital identity system generating a sharing token for authenticating a bearer to a validator. Assigned... Read more →

Walmart and Americorp Blockchian and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Walmart, the first patent addresses techniques for managing reservations and deliveries for a docking station. Assigned to Americorp Financial, the second patent addresses techniques for... Read more →

Huawei and Smart Security Systems Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications continue our theme of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Huawei (CN), the first application discloses techniques for copyright management. Assigned to Smart Security Systems, the second application discloses... Read more →

AirWatch and Microsoft 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 [VMWare] AirWatch, the first application addresses techniques for applying rights management policies to protected files. Assigned to Microsoft, the second patent addresses techniques for using multiple content protection... Read more →

IBM and Tata DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to IBM, the first patent addresses techniques for accessing an electronic asset using content augmentation. Assigned to Tata, the second patent addresses techniques for assigning access rights in... Read more →

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.... Read more →

Rockwell Automation and ATT 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 Rockwell Automation Technologies, the first patent addresses techniques for applying digital rights management to industrial automation devices including programmable logic controllers (PLCs), I/O devices, and communication adapters. Assigned... Read more →

Hitachi Maxell and M-Files DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the PTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Hitachi Maxell (JP), the first application discloses a content viewing system capable of carrying out cooperation among devices while ensuring security and copyright management. Assigned to... Read more →

Tata and Adobe 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 Tata (IN), the first of today's patents addresses techniques for access rights management in enterprise digital rights management systems. Assigned to Adobe, the second patent addresses techniques for... Read more →

Symantec and M-Files Oy DRM Patents

New patents are issued on Tuesdays by the USPTO. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Symantec, the first patent addresses techniques for viewing content under enterprise digital rights management without a client side access component. Assigned to M-Files Oy (FI), the second patent... Read more →

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... Read more →

Intertrust and Disney DRM Patent Applications

Happy New Year to all. The PTO publishes new pending patent applications on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Intertrust, the first application discloses trusted infrastructure support systems, methods and techniques for secure electronic commerce, electronic transactions and rights management. Assigned to Disney, the... Read more →

Tata and Nielsen DRM Patent Applications

Happy Thanksgiving to all!! Even on holiday Thursdays, the PTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Tata Consulting Services (IN), the first application discloses techniques for controlling access rights of a document using enterprise digital rights management. Assigned... Read more →

General Instrument and Citrix Systems 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 General Instrument, the first application discloses techniques for policy enforcement for multiple devices using an audience definition. Assigned to Citrix Systems, the second application discloses techniques for dynamically associating... Read more →

Ericsson and Tata 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 Ericsson, the first application discloses for establishing a secured communication channel for communicating digital content. Assigned to Tata Consultancy Services (IN), the second application discloses techniques for access... Read more →

Tata and Huawei DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Tata Consultancy Services (IN), the first application discloses techniques for enterprise digital rights management. Assigned to Huawei Technologies (CN), the second application discloses technques for making system constraints... Read more →

Microsoft and LG DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Microsoft, the first application discloses techniques for controlling access to resources by hosted entities. Assigned to LG Electronics, the second application discloses techniques for controlling a mobile terminal.... Read more →

Microsoft and IBM DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Microsoft, the first patent concerns techniques for enforcing advertisement playback for downloaded media content. Assigned to IBM, the second patent concerns techniques for managing access to physical data via a data abstraction... Read more →

Podcast With Airzip CEO Gary Clueit - Enterprise Rights Management

I spoke recently with Gary Clueit, CEO of AirZip, the provider of FileSECURE Enterprise Rights Management software. Today's podcast is an edited version of our recent conversation. The topics covered include differences between China and the United States in business culture, information security, and ERM. A detailed time-index topic list... Read more →

AirZip ERM, Acresso, EMC Updates

AirZip has been added to the list ERM providers. Interware has been acquired by Acresso, and belatedly, the EMC acquisition of Authentica has been noted to the right under Enterprise. Read more →

Podcast With Ed Gaudet, Liquid Machines, ERM

Liquid Machines (LM) is the last remaining important independent US-based Enterprise Rights Management (ERM) company. It's earlier independent competitors were acquired: SealedMedia by Stellant and, in turn, Oracle, and Authentica by EMC. I recently spoke at length with Ed Gaudet, Liquid Machines' SVP Corporate Development and Marketing about Rights Management,... Read more →

Seclore Added To List of ERM Companies

Mumbai-based Seclore has been added to the list of ERM/IRM companies in the right column. Read more →

Enterprise and Mobile DRM Mini-Roundup

Here's a roundup of various recent Enterprise and Mobile DRM stories: Enterprise Rights Management software vendor Liquid Machines has announced adding Dr. Renato A. DiPentima to their Board of Direrectors and achieving Microsoft Gold Partner Certification. Earlier this year they closed a $10M Series D equity financing, Oracle's latest release... Read more →

Vista, DRM, and the Enterprise Preference for XP?

In a recent article, InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy suggests that DRM is a factor in the preference among Enterprise IT folks for XP over Vista. Of course, the secret to maintaining a de facto monopoly is to not push your customer base too far. Every industry segment has its breaking point,... Read more →

Enterprise Rights Management of Critical Importance, Says ABI

ABI says that Enterprise Rights Management is and will continue to be important. They go on to say that there are a limited number of ERM vendors and that the market is growing. Just five large firms — market leader Microsoft, EMC, Oracle, and Adobe — and one smaller one,... Read more →