Managing Rights Management

Disney Watermarking and Boeing Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. This week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Disney, the first patent addresses techniques for descriptive metadata extraction and linkage with editorial content. Assigned to Boeing, the second patent addresses techniques for generating a fingerprint for verification of a reference object.

Western Digital and Rockwell Automation 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 Western Digital, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for a personal multimedia content archive. Assigned to Rockwell Automation, the second patent addresses an architecture for application of digital rights management to industrial automation devices including programmable logic controllers (PLCs), I/O devices, and communication adapters.

Colson Reseach and Amazon Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications continue the theme of blockchain (block chain, distributed ledger) and digital rights management broadly construed. Apparently assigned to Colson Research, the first application discloses techniques for distributed manufacturing. Assigned to Amazon, the second application discloses techniques for immutable cryptographically secured ledger-backed databases.

Intel and Elixsys Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

We continue the theme of blockchain (block chain, distributed ledger) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Intel, the first Spotlight Application discloses techniques for blockchain-based shadow images to facilitate copyright protection of digital content. Assigned to Elixsys, the second application discloses techniques for using smart contracts to control the trade, supply, manufacture, and distribution of commodities.

Digimarc and Wistaria Trading 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 Digimarc, the first patent addresses assembly of multi-part food packaging is checked by reference to payloads of steganographically-encoded digital watermarks printed across plural components of the packaging. Assigned to Wistaria Trading  (HI SCOTT), the second patent addresses techniques for utilizing data reduction in steganographic and cryptographic systems.

Moog and Electric Motor Werks Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. We continue with the theme of blockchain (distributed ledger) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Moog, Inc., the first of today's Spotlight Applications discloses techniques for the verification and authentication of additive manufactured product. Assigned to Electric Motor Werks, the second application discloses techniques for enabling automatic management of power loads and power generation based on user-specified set of rules

Boeing and Amazon Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are published by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Boeing, the first patent addresses techniques for generating a fingerprint for verification of a reference object and is one of the few applications of digital fingerprinting I've seen in manufacturing. Assigned to Amazon, the second patent addresses techniques for identifying protected media files.

Authentect Fingerprinting and BJUT Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Authentect, the first patent address techniques for authentication of an object, verification of its provenance, and certification of the object as compliant with manufacturing standards. assigned to the Beijing University of Technology (BJUT) (CN), the second patent addresses techniques for embedding and extracting multi-scale space based watermarks.

General Electric Fingerprinting and Verance Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to GE, the first application discloses techniques to characterize noises sensed by a knock sensor. Assigned to Verance, the second application discloses techniques for service signaling recovery for multimedia content using embedded watermarks.

eBay and Sony DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to eBay, the first application discloses techniques for digital rights and integrity management in three-dimensional (3d) printing. Assigned to Sony, the second application discloses techniques for digital rights management of encrypted digital content.

Intellectual Discovery and Schneider Electric Industries DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Intellectual Discovery (KR), the first applications discloses methods  for providing a license corresponding to encrypted contents to client apparatus and digital rights management conversion system using the methods. Assigned to Schneider Electric Industries (FR), the second application discloses techniques for authentication and authorization in an industrial control system using a single digital certificate.