Managing Rights Management

Verimatrix and MaxLinear Conditional Access Patents

New patents are issued on Tuesdays by the USPTO. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of conditional access systems used in cable and and in some Internet media access systems. Assigned to Verimatrix, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for detecting clone playback devices. Assigned to MaxLinear, the... Read more →

AT&T Watermarking and TiVo Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued on Tuesdays by the USPTO. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to AT&T, the first of today's patents address techniques for creating and using watermarked media content in IPTV or iTV networks. Assigned to TiVo, the second patent concerns a... 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 →

Nagravision and ContentGuard DRM Patent Applications

Thursdays the PTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of this week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Nagravision (CH), the first application discloses techniques for processing a digital broadcast transport stream. Assigned to ContentGuard, the second application discloses techniques for digital rights management using advanced... Read more →

Dish and Cognitive Media Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

The PTO publishes new pending patent applications on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Dish Digital, the first application discloses techniques for pre-distribution identification of broadcast television content using audio fingerprints. Apparently assigned to Cognitive Media Networks, Inc., the second application discloses techniques... Read more →

Protection Technologies and Broadcom DRM Patent Applications

Thursday the PTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Protection Technologies Research, LLC (RU), the first application discloses techniques for unified end user license management in a DRM system. Assigned to Broadcom, the second patent discloses a mobile... Read more →

Google and AT&T Digital Watermarking Patent Applications

The PTO publishes new pending patent applications on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Google, the first application discloses techniques for audio/video identification watermarking. Assigned to AT&T, the second application discloses techniques for creating watermarked media content in IPTV or iTV networks. 20140150111,... Read more →

Comcast and Digital Keystone Conditional Access Systems

Thursdays the PTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of this week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of conditional access systems such as cable TV and IPTV. Assigned to Comcast, the first application discloses a reconfigurable access network encryption architecture. Assigned to Digital Keystone, the second application discloses techniques for for... Read more →

LG and CenturyLink DRM Patents

Tuesdays the PTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to LG electronics (KR), the first patent addresses techniques for managing digital rights of secure removable media. Assigned to CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC, the second patent addresses techniques related to a multi-access... Read more →

ETRI and Nagravision Conditional Access Patents

The PTO issues new patents on Tuesdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of conditional access systems typically employed in cable and IPTV systems. Assigned to the ETRI (KR), the first patent addresses techniques for a downloadable conditional access system. Assigned to Nagravision, the second patent addresses techniques... Read more →