Managing Rights Management

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 →

Attestiv and Connect Health Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Attestiv, the first application discloses techniques for authenticating a digital media asset, and particularly to verifying the authenticity of digital image or video files which may have been redacted or otherwise... 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 →

Elixsys and Mastercard 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 Elixsys, the first application discloses techniques for using smart contracts to control the trade, supply, manufacture, and distribution of commodities.... Read more →

Saab and Grass Valley Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Saab (SE), the first patent addresses techniques for authenticating software. Assigned to Grass Valley Limited, the second of today's patents addresses techniques for managing visual content. 10,896,251, "Method for authenticating software," assigned to Saab... Read more →

Saturn Watermarking and Idemia Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Saturn, the first of today's applications discloses techniques for reliably generating and transmitting viewing information with respect to contents received via a communication route other than... Read more →

Nielsen Watermarking and QRS Technologies Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Nielsen, the first patent addresses techniques for optimizing reference signature matching using watermark matching. Assigned to QRS Music Technologies, the second patent addresses techniques for generating a musical... Read more →

Nielsen Watermarking and Audible Fingerpringing Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to The Nielsen Company, the first application discloses techniques for dynamic watermarking of media based on transport-stream metadata. Assigned to Audible Magic, the second application discloses techniques for an aggregated... Read more →

VMware and AffectLayer Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to VMWare, the first patent addresses techniques for teleporting content over network using hash matches. Assigned to AffectLayer (IL), the second patent addresses techniques for automatic speaker identification in calls. 10,628,382, "Teleporting... Read more →

Netflix Fingerprinting and Digimarc Watermarking Patents

New patents are published by the USPTO on Tuesdays. This week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Netflix, the first of this week's patents address techniques for identifying previously streamed portions of a media title to avoid repetitive playback. Assigned to Digimarc, the second... Read more →

Viasat and Palo Alto Networks Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Viasat, the first patent addresses techniques for improving utilization of a communications system (e.g., a satellite communications system) are provided, using techniques referred to herein as "deltacasting." Assigned... 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 →

ADB and Gracenote Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to ADB (CH), the first patent addresses techniques for automatic categorization of audio/video content. Assigned to Gracenote, the second patent addresses techniques for identifying video content via color-based fingerprint matching. 10,503,980, "System... Read more →

Google and Apple Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Google, the first patent addresses techniques for detecting abusive stereoscopic videos by generating fingerprints for multiple portions of a video frame. Assigned to Apple, the second patent addresses techniques for recognizing... Read more →

Google Fingerprinting and Wistaria Trading Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Google, the first patent addresses techniques for detecting abusive stereoscopic videos by generating fingerprints for multiple portions of a video frame. Assigned to Wistaria Trading LTD (BM) [Hi... Read more →

Crystal Computing and Nielsen Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued on Tuesdays by the USPTO. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned To Crystal Computing, the first patent addresses techniques for synchronizing metadata with audiovisual content. Assigned to The Nielsen Company, the second patent addresses techniques for video fingerprinting based on Fourier transform of... Read more →

Nielsen Watermarking and Square Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Nielsen, the first patent addresses techniques for detecting watermark modifications. Assigned to Square, the second patent addresses techniques for processing transactions in offline mode. 10,366,466, "Detecting watermark modifications,"... Read more →

Google Watermarking and Nielsen Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Google, the first of today's applications discloses techniques for key phrase detection with audio watermarking. Assigned to The Nielsen Company, the second application discloses techniques for... Read more →

MorphTrust Watermarking and Snell Fingerprinting Patent Applications.

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to MorphoTrust, the first application addresses techniques for digitally watermarking digital facial portraits. Assigned to Snell Advanced Media (GB), the second application addresses techniques for managing visual... Read more →

IBM Watermarking and Gracenote Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to IBM, the first of today's applications addresses techniques for increased security using dynamic watermarking. Assigned to Gracenote, the second application addresses techniques for media channel identification with multi-match detection... Read more →

Averon and Nielsen Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Averon, the first patent addresses techniques for verifying a user based on digital fingerprint signals derived from out-of-band data. Assigned to Nielsen, the second patent addresses techniques for flagging... Read more →

Enswers Fingerprinting and NOA Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. This week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Enswers (KR), the first patent concerns an advertisement detection system and method based on fingerprints. Assigned to NOA, the second patent concerns techniques for redacting video for... Read more →

MorphoTrust Watermarking and CIsco Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to MorphoTrust USA, the first patent addresses a digital identification document including a digital biometric of the person and a digital watermark, the digital watermark encoding personally identifiable information... Read more →

Acxiom and Lex Persona Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Acxiom, the first application discloses techniques for applying fingerprinting/watermarking of consumer data, and analyzing "wild files" of consumer data to assign a guilt score for a... Read more →

Disney Watermarking and Boeing Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. This week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Disney, the first patent addresses techniques for descriptive metadata extraction and linkage with editorial content. Assigned to Boeing, the second patent addresses techniques for generating a fingerprint... Read more →

Gracenote and NBCUniversal Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Gracenote, the first patent addresses techniques for generating and detecting a fingerprint functioning as a trigger marker in a multimedia signal. Assigned to NBCUniversal, the second patent addresses techniques... Read more →

Tencent Fingerprinting and Disney Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. This week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Tencent (CN), the first application discloses a video detection method and a server. Assigned to Disney, the second application discloses techniques for distributing supplemental content... Read more →

Gracenote Fingerprinting and NXP Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Gracenote, the first patent addresses techniques for media channel identification and action with multi-match detection based on reference stream comparison. Assigned to NXP (NL), the second patent addresses... Read more →

Dish Fingerprinting and Digital Voice Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Dish, the first patent addresses techniques for pre-distribution identification of broadcast television content using audio fingerprints. Assigned to Digital Voice Systems, the second patent addresses techniques for audio... Read more →

AT&T and SonicWall Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to AT&T, the first patent addresses techniques for sharing timed fingerprint location information. Assigned to SonicWall, the second patent addresses techniques for image based spam blocking. 10,206,113, "Sharing timed fingerprint... Read more →