Managing Rights Management

Two Wells Fargo Quantum and Blockchain Patents

Smart contracts, blockchains (distributed ledgers), and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents are assigned to Wells Fargo Bank. The first patent addresses techniques for quantum entanglement authentication (QEA) / quantum consensus. The second patent addresses techniques for quantum-safe blockchain vault... Read more →

ATT and Digipraise Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to AT&T, the first application discloses techniques for managing dynamic pricing of media content through blockchain. Assigned to Digipraise, the second application discloses digital appraisal techniques providing computational attestation of appraisal integrity.... Read more →

RBC and Madisetti Blockchain Patents

Smart contracts, blockchains (distributed ledgers), and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to the Royal Bank of Canada, the first patent addresses techniques for an electronic identity brokerage. Assigned to Professor (Georgia Tech) Vijay K.Madisetti, the second patent addresses techniques for blockchain-based combined identity,... Read more →

IBM and Alipay Smart Contract Patents

Smart contracts, blockchains (distributed ledgers), and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to IBM, the first patent addresses techniques for converting processes into multiple blockchain smart contracts. Assigned to Alipay, the second patent addresses techniques for generating a smart contract test case. 11,205,178, "Converting... Read more →

DocuSign and Mshift Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to DocuSign, the first application discloses techniques for forming, storing, managing, and executing contracts. Assigned to Mshift, the second application discloses techniques for facilitating identity verification using decentralized networks. 20210374672, "System and... Read more →

CapOne and PayPal Blockchain Patents

Smart contracts, blockchains ( distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to CapOne, the first patent addresses techniques for authorized data sharing using smart contracts. Assigned to PayPal, the second patent addresses techniques for verifying a user using proof-of-life for participation in... Read more →

Intertrust and HYPR Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Intertrust, the first application discloses techniques for trust and identity management. Assigned to HYPR, the second application discloses techniques for federated identity management with decentralized computing platforms. 20210377040, "Trust and identity... Read more →

Microsoft and Bprotocol Smart Contract Patents

Smart contracts, blockchains ( distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to MSFT, the first patent addresses techniques for blockchain smart contracts for digital asset access. Assigned to Bprotocol Foundation (CH), the second patent addresses techniques for smart contract on a blockchain... Read more →

NTT and Heir Apparent Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to NTT (JP), the first of today's patents addresses techniques for permission information management. Assigned to Heir Apparent, Inc., the second patent addresses techniques for participative support of content-providing users. 11,165,567, "Permission... Read more →

Aurign and IBM Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Aurign, the first patent addresses techniques for tracking authorship attribution and creating music publishing agreements from metadata. Assigned to IBM, the second patent addresses techniques for ad-hoc trusted groups on a... Read more →

Vertigo Studios and Simpsx Technologies Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Vertigo Studios, the first application discloses techniques for interoperable digital social recorder of multi-threaded smart routed media and crypto asset compliance and payment systems and methods. Assigned to Simpsx Technologies, the... Read more →

Eluvio and Mythical Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Elivio, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for a decentralized system for security and access control associated with digital content. Assigned to Mythical, the second patent addresses techniques for facilitating... Read more →

Hitachi and Cloud Privacy Labs Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Hitachi (JP), the first application discloses techniques for managing transactions in a supply chain. Assigned to Cloud Privacy Labs, the second application discloses techniques for context-aware consent management. 20210294914, "Distribution management... Read more →

Nokia and ANT Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Nokia (FI), the first patent addresses techniques for trusted computing. Assigned to Advanced New Technologies (KY), the second patent addresses techniques for verifying credibility of a consortium blockchain. 11,115,205, "Method and... Read more →

Aurign and Factom Blockchain and Smart Contracts Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Aurign, the first application discloses techniques for tracking authorship attribution and creating music publishing agreements from metadata. Assigned to Factom, the second application discloses techniques for digital or "smart" contracts executing... Read more →

Two ANT Blockchain-based Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Both assigined to Advanced New Technologies (ANT), the first patent addresses techniques for blockchain-based content verification. The second addresses techniques for identifying copyrighted material using copyright information embedded in electronic files. 11,108,568, "Blockchain-based... Read more →

Mark Coast and ANT Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, NFTs, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Apparently assigned to the inventor Mark Coast, the first application discloses techniques for performing agricultural transactions related to hemp. Assigned to ANT (KY), the second application discloses techniques for blockchain-based [legal] judgment... Read more →

Intertrust and Keyless Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Intertrust Technologies (Hi Dave), the first patent addresses techniques for trust and identity management. Assigned to Keyless (GB), the second patent addresses techniques for facilitating an authentication processing service. 11,102,008, "Trust... Read more →

ANT and USPS Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, NFTs, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Advanced New Technologies Co., (KY), the first application discloses techniques for issuing reward to work publisher on the basis of blockchain. Assigned to the USPS, the second of today's applications... Read more →

Eluvio and HYPR Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Eluvio, the first patent addresses techniques for a decentralized content fabric (also see Eluvio's 11,063,865 which issued today). Assigned to HYPR, the second patent addresses techniques for federated identity management with... Read more →

Ericsson and Ting Tech Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Ericsson (SE), the first of today's applications discloses techniques for collaborative task offloading automation in smart containers. Assigned to Ting Tech, the second application discloses techniques for interactively broadcasting value via... Read more →

Factom and Taliware Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Factom, the first of today's Spotlight Patents addresses techniques for smart contracts in blockchain environments. Assigned to Taliware, the second patent addresses techniques for passive authentication of an individual using an... Read more →

Microsoft and salesforce Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Microsoft, the first application discloses techniques for controlling and tracing an object across a plurality of parties. Assigned to salesforce.com, the second application discloses techniques for storing PII information via a... Read more →

USAA and Identify3D Blockchain and Rights Management Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to United Services Automobile Association, the first of today's patents address techniques to track, store, and manage events, rights and liabilities. Assigned to Identify3D, the second patent addresses techniques for data management... Read more →

IBM and Mores Blockchain and Rights Management Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to IBM, the first of today's patents concerns techniques for storing data via a blockchain ledger based on a consensus of a set of anchor blockchain nodes which are subset of nodes... Read more →

PwC and Coinplug Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to PricewaterhouseCoopers, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for a cryptoconomy solution for administration and governance in a distributed system. Assigned to Coinplug (KR), the second patent addresses techniques for providing... Read more →

Instant! Communications and CapOne Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains, (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Instant! Communications, the first application discloses techniques for a dynamic radio access mesh network. Assigned to CapOne, the second application discloses techniques for redemption and settlement transactions via smart contracts. 20210105625,... Read more →

Visa and ATT Blockchain and Rights Management Patents

Today's Spotlight Patents continue our theme of blockchains (smart contracts distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Visa, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for tracking multiple classes of records in a single blockchain. Assigned to AT&T, the second patent addresses techniques for authenticating media based on... Read more →

Hella and Here Global Blockchain Patent Applications

Smart contracts, blockchains (distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of this week's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Hella GmbH (DE), the first application discloses techniques for decentralized digital authentication. Assigned to Here Global (NL), the second application discloses techniques for providing a consent management system on a... Read more →

Americorp and Netspective Blockchain and Rights Management Patents

Today's Spotlight Patents continue our theme of blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Americorp Investments, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for a blockchain operating system. Assigned to Netspective, the second patent addresses techniques for self-controlled digital authorization over communication networks. 10,965,661, "Blockchain... Read more →