Managing Rights Management

BofA 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 BofA, the first patent addresses techniques for executing, securing, and non-repudiation of pooled conditional smart contracts over distributed blockchain network. Assigned to EMC, the second patent addresses electronic agreement data management... Read more →

Avila and CUZ Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Avila, the first application discloses techniques for a secure messaging service with digital rights management using blockchain technology. Assigned to Communication University of Zhejiang (CUZ) (CN), 20220207118, "Secure messaging service with... Read more →

JPMorgan Chase and Dun and Bradstreet Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to JPMorgan Chase, the first application discloses techniques for software license management using a distributed ledger. Assigned to D&B, the second application discloses techniques for identity resolution across disparate distributed immutable ledger... Read more →

SECARM and JPMorgan Chase Blockchain Patents

Smart contracts, blockchains (distributed ledgers), and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to SECARM, the first patent addresses techniques for a block chain network and hash-based cuckoo filter. Assigned to JPMorgan Chase Bank, the second patent addresses techniques for software license management using a... Read more →

Ma and D3D Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Moses T. Ma, the first application discloses techniques for managing intellectual property using a blockchain. Assigned D3D (KR), the second application discloses techniques for processing copyright and profit distribution of clothes... 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 →

Adobe and Intel DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Adobe, the first of today's applications discloses techniques for DRM in virtual and augmented reality. Assigned to Intel, the second application discloses techniques for selective content licensing and... Read more →

MiniTrue: Orwell Unperson

The Ministry of Truth to Records Department: George Orwell unperson; revise immediately. Doubleplusbad 1984 and Animal Farm down "memory hole." This morning, hundreds of Amazon Kindle owners awoke to discover that books by a certain famous author had mysteriously disappeared from their e-book readers. These were books that they had... Read more →

Paramount Licenses Macrovion Technologies Including BD+ For Blu-Ray

Macrovision has announced that Paramount Home Entertainment has licensed copy protection technologies including BD+, the programmable security and DRM technology used with Blu-ray optical discs. ...Paramount Home Entertainment has agreed to license Macrovision’s content protection products, ACP and RipGuard. ACP and RipGuard provide protection against unauthorized copying of content across... Read more →

Macrovision (MSVN), Blu-ray, and BD+

Macrovision held it's quarterly earnings call for analysts and investors on Tuesday. Here are a few selected excerpts from different parts of the transcript that deal with BD+ security for Blu-ray discs and players and the uptake of Blu-ray players in the marketplace. In other category, while we expect to... Read more →