Managing Rights Management

Huawei and Northern Trust Blockchain and DRM Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Huawei, the first patent addresses techniques for copyright rights defense detection. Assigned to Northern Trust, the second patent addresses techniques for digital identity management and permission controls within distributed network nodes.... 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 →

Cloudinary and Theta Labs Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Cloudinary (IL), the first of today's applications discloses techniques for providing authenticity and rights verification mechanism for media content and for its derived versions. Assigned to Theta Labs, the second application... 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 →

Clarovia Holdings and Salesforce.com Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Clarovia Holdings, the first patent addresses techniques for using smart contracts to control the trade, supply, manufacture, and distribution of commodities. Assigned to salesforce.com, the second patent addresses techniques for implementing... Read more →

Eluvio and ANT Blockchain and Rights Management Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Eluvio, the first application discloses techniques for implementing aspects of a decentralized content fabric. Assigned to ANT, the second application discloses techniques for blockchain-based copyright protection. 20210112117, "Decentralized content fabric," assigned... Read more →

Salesforce and Mastercard Blockchain and Rights Management Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. This week's Spotlight Applications continue the theme of blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Salesforce, the first application discloses techniques to implement record level access on metadata driven blockchain using shared secrets and... Read more →

Live Nation and Alticast Blockchain and Rights Management Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications continue the theme of blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Live Nation, the first application discloses techniques for processing optimizations and templating using metadata-driven blockchain techniques. Assigned to Alitcast, the second application discloses... Read more →

Nielsen Watermarking and Audible Fingerpringing Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to The Nielsen Company, the first application discloses techniques for dynamic watermarking of media based on transport-stream metadata. Assigned to Audible Magic, the second application discloses techniques for an aggregated... Read more →

Two Salesforce Blockchain and Rights Management Patent Applications

New patent applications are published by the USTPO on Thursdays. Assigned to Salesforce, both of today's Spotlight Applications concern blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed. The first application discloses techniques for implementing declarative smart actions for coins and assets transacted onto a blockchain using distributed ledger... Read more →

Rovi and IBM Blockchain and Rights Management Patent Applications

New patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications continue our theme of blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Rovi, the first application discloses techniques for metadata distribution and management via transactional blockchain technology. Assigned to IBM, the second application... Read more →

Visa and Intel Blockchain and Rights Management Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. This week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Visa, the first application discloses techniques for creating multiple records based on an ordered smart contract. Assigned to Intel, the... Read more →

8 Plus Ventures and IBM Blockchain and Rights Management Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. This week's Spotlight Patents continue the theme of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Eight Plus Ventures, the first patent addresses techniques for an image chain of title management. Assigned to IBM, the second patent... Read more →

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 →

Rovi and Accenture Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

The USPTO publishes new patent applications on Thursday. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Rovi Guides, the first application discloses techniques for providing media asset recommendations based on distributed blockchain analysis. Assigned to Accenture, the second application... Read more →

Crystal Computing and Nielsen Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued on Tuesdays by the USPTO. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned To Crystal Computing, the first patent addresses techniques for synchronizing metadata with audiovisual content. Assigned to The Nielsen Company, the second patent addresses techniques for video fingerprinting based on Fourier transform of... Read more →

Tencent Fingerprinting and Disney Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. This week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Tencent (CN), the first application discloses a video detection method and a server. Assigned to Disney, the second application discloses techniques for distributing supplemental content... Read more →

Digimarc and FUOC 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 techniques for watermarking and signal recognition for managing and sharing captured content, metadata discovery and related arrangements. Assigned to Fundacio per a la Universitat... Read more →

TDB and Mido Play Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications continue the theme of Blockchain (distributed ledger, block chain) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to TDB (CA), the first application discloses techniques for a distributed electronic ledger with metadata. Assigned to Mido Play, Inc,... Read more →

Verance Watermarking and Siemans Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Verance, the first patent addresses techniques for watermark detection and metadata delivery associated with a primary content. Assigned to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, the second patent addresses using a... Read more →

Digimarc and paSafeShare 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 techniques for watermarking and signal recognition for managing and sharing captured content, metadata discovery and related arrangements. Assigned to paSafeShare, the second patent addresses... Read more →

Sony Watermarking and Microsoft Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Sony (JP), the first application discloses techniques for distributing metadata embedded in video. Assigned to Microsoft, the second application discloses techniques for communicating metadata that identifies... 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 →

IBM and Blue Spike Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to IBM, the first application discloses techniques for metadata embedding in streaming medical data. Apparently assigned to Blue Spike, Inc., the second application discloses security techniques based on subliminal and... Read more →

CES 2010: DRM Is Alive And Well - Part 1

The 2010 Consumer Electronics Show was very upbeat, perhaps more so than two years ago (last year doesn't count given the economic implosion resulting in widespread malaise and depression). Of course the purpose of the these shows is to drum up excitement. 3D TV (not quite ready for prime time... Read more →

Vobile Fingerprinting and Cryptography Research Watermarking DVD Patent Applications

Every Thursday the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight applications address optical disc content security. Assigned to Vobile, the first application discloses techniques for fingerprinting and identifying digital versatile disc (DVDs). Assigned to CRI, the second application discloses a content security layer providing long-term renewable security that... Read more →

Metadata, Metadata, Who Has The Metadata

Yesterday's blogicle noted that metadata will be increasingly important component of DRM 3.0. The Wiki article on the subject points out that metadata has a broad range of meanings, uses, and contexts that share in common the idea of "data about data." Regarding rights management and related areas, metadata describes... Read more →

DRM 3.0 Has Arrived

Following several conversations with senior executives from several different companies, I've come away from the CES show thinking that the next generation of DRM has arrived. The outlines of DRM 3.0 have been clear for the past several months, but two themes emerged from my various discussions. The first is... Read more →