Managing Rights Management

GridPlus and MRInnovations Smart Contact and Blockchain Patent Applications

Smart contracts (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to GridPlus, the first application discloses techniques for secure conditional transfer of cryptographic data allows transfer of cryptographically-based data from one party to another while mitigating failure of a counterparty to perform.... Read more →

Four IBM Blockchain Patent Applications

Smart contracts (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. The first application discloses a virtual physical digital twin ecosystem. The second application discloses blockchains with random committee selection. The third application discloses verifiable privacy preserving computation. The fourth application discloses privacy preserving... Read more →

BofA Smart Contract and IBM Blockchain DRM 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 logistics sensors for smart contract arbitration. Assigned to IBM, the second patent addresses techniques for multimedia content player with digital rights management while maintaining privacy of... Read more →

Alipay 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 Alipay (CN), the first patent addresses blockchain nodes, systems and storage media for executing smart contracts. Assigned to EMC, the second patent addresses techniques for smart contract mapping to trusted hardware... Read more →

MO-DV and Strong Force Blockchain Patents

Blockchains, (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to MO-DV, the first patent addresses techniques for implementing a content delivery system special network device and special local area network connection, content discovery, data transfer, and control methods. Assigned to Strong... Read more →

ANT and nChain Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Advanced New Technologies, the first patent concerns techniques for blockchain-based cross-chain data access. Assigned to nChain the second patent addresses techniques for an operating system for blockchain IoT devices. 11,126,683, "Blockchain-based... Read more →

Blockchain ASICS and Ares Blockchain and Rights Management Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Blockchain ASICS, the first patent addresses techniques for a cryptographic ASIC with combined transformation and one-way functions. Assigned to Ares Technologies, the second patent addresses... Read more →

Blockchain ASICS and Telefonica Blockchain and Rights Management Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications continue the theme of blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Blockchain ASICS, the first application discloses techniques for dynamic transform in blockchain header validation. Assigned to Telefonica (ES),... Read more →

Amazon and Blockchain ASICs Blockchain and Rights Mangement Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Amazon, the first patent addresses techniques for immutable cryptographically secured ledger-backed databases. Assigned to Blockchain ASICs, the second patent addresses techniques... Read more →

NXM and nChain Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Applications concern blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Both applications also concern semiconductors. Assigned to nChain, the first application discloses techniques for implementing logic gate functionality using a blockchain.... Read more →