Managing Rights Management

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 →

Silveredge Technologies and Sorenson Media 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 Silveredge Technologies (IN), the first patent addresses techniques for hardware agnostic detection of television advertisements. Assigned to Sorenson Media, the second patent addresses techniques for fingerprinting media content... Read more →

Intel and Netflix 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 Intel, the first patent addresses techniques for distributing digital rights management digital content in a controlled network ensuring digital rights. Assigned to Netflix, the second patent addresses... Read more →

Truepic and Harmonic 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 Truepic, the first patent addresses techniques for authenticating photographic image data. Assigned to Harmonic, the second patent addresses techniques for using watermarks in distributed construction of video on demand... Read more →

SypherMedia Conditional Access and ATT IPTV Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of conditional access systems and of IPTV systems. Assigned to Syphermedia International, the first application discloses techniques for controlling a group of the client devices to switch at least one client device of the... Read more →

Samsung and MobiTV 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 Samsung, the first patent addresses techniques for providing cloud-based digital rights management. Assigned to MobiTV, the second patent addresses digital rights management for HTTP-based media streaming. 9,898,588, "Method... Read more →

Samsung and Kaspersky DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays including holidays such as the 4th of July. Both of this week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Samsung, the first patent addresses techniques for transmitting and receiving message for downloadable CAS [Conditional Access System] or DRM... Read more →

Verizon and Intralinks DRM Patent Applications

New patent applications are issued by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Verizon, the first application discloses techniques for time-shifted playback for over-the-top linear streaming. Assigned to Intralinks, the second application discloses techniques for managing access to electronic content.... Read more →

Ericsson IPTV and Nagravisoin Conditional Access Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of IPTV and conditional access systems, respectively. Assigned to Erickson (SE), the first application discloses techniques for IPTV targeted messages. Assigned to Nagravision (CH), the second application discloses techniques for pairing between a multimedia... Read more →

Intertrust and Broadcom 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 technologies, the first patent addresses techniques for fragmented file sharing. Assigned to Broadcom, the second patent addresses mobile payTV DRM architectures. 9,344,473, "Methods, systems, and apparatus for... Read more →