Managing Rights Management

8eo and IBM Blockchain and Rights Management Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents continue the theme of blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to 8eo, the first patent addresses techniques for content management across a multi-party conference system. Assigned to IBM, the second patent addresses techniques for policy enforcement via peer devices using a blockchain.

VMware and AffectLayer Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to VMWare, the first patent addresses techniques for teleporting content over network using hash matches. Assigned to AffectLayer (IL), the second patent addresses techniques for automatic speaker identification in calls.

Google and Apple Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Google, the first patent addresses techniques for detecting abusive stereoscopic videos by generating fingerprints for multiple portions of a video frame. Assigned to Apple, the second patent addresses techniques for recognizing sound and music signals in high noise and distortion.

Gracenote and Tencent Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Gracenote the first patent addresses techniques for media channel identification with video multi-match detection and disambiguation based on audio fingerprint. Assigned to Tencent (CN), the second patent addresses techniques for image information recognition processing.

Google Watermarking and Nielsen 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 Google, the first of today's applications discloses techniques for key phrase detection with audio watermarking. Assigned to The Nielsen Company, the second application discloses techniques for fingerprint layouts for content fingerprinting.

Bridgit and inVia Robotics Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are issued on Tuesdays by the USPTO. Today's Spotlight Patents continue the theme of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Bridgit S.P.C., the first patent addresses techniques for creating and retrieving contextual links between user interface objects. Assigned to inVia Robotics, the second patent addresses techniques for autonomous coordination of resources amongst robots.

Gracenote and NBCUniversal Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Gracenote, the first patent addresses techniques for generating and detecting a fingerprint functioning as a trigger marker in a multimedia signal. Assigned to NBCUniversal, the second patent addresses techniques for mapping affiliated graphs using video fingerprints

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 based on content entities within video content.

Dish Fingerprinting and Digital Voice 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 Dish, the first patent addresses techniques for pre-distribution identification of broadcast television content using audio fingerprints. Assigned to Digital Voice Systems, the second patent addresses techniques for audio watermarking via phase modification.

IBM Watermarking and Google 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 IBM, the first patent addresses techniques for multiple source watermarking for surveillance. Assigned to Google, the second patent addresses techniques for detecting and suppressing voice queries.

Twitter and Dish Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. This week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Twitter, the first application addresses techniques for identification of concurrently broadcast time-based media. Assigned to DISH Technologies, the second application address techniques for pre-distribution identification of broadcast television content using audio fingerprints.

TLS Corp Watermarking and Johns Hopikins 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 TLS Corp, the first patent addresses techniques for inserting watermarks into audio signals that have speech-like properties. Assigned to The Johns Hopkins University, the second patent addresses techniques for efficient identification of code similarity.

IBM and Nielsen Digital Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned ti IBM, the first patent addresses techniques for integrity verification of an audio-visual data stream. Assigned to The Nielsen Company, the second patent addresses techniques for performing audio watermarking and watermark detection and extraction

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 using hashing.

Facebook and BARCO Audio Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of audio fingerprinting. Assigned to Facebook, the first patent addresses techniques for broadcast content view analysis based on ambient audio recording. Assigned to BARCO N.V. (BE), the second patent addresses techniques for ad hoc one-time pairing of remote devices using online audio fingerprinting.

Two Nielson Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and both are assigned to The Nielson Company. The first application discloses techniques for measuring exposure to streaming media. The second application discloses techniques to perform audio watermarking and watermark detection and extraction.

iHeartMedia and Boeing Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to iHeartMedia, the first application discloses techniques for identifying a broadcast source associated with an unknown fingerprint.  Assigned to Boeing, the second application discloses techniques for generating a fingerprint for verification of a reference object.

IBM and Omnifone 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 IBM, the first patent addresses techniques for detecting usage of copyrighted video content using object recognition. Assigned to Omniphone (GB), the second patent addresses techniques for enabling digital music content to be downloaded to and used on a portable wireless computing device.

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 Oberta de Catalunya (ES), the second patent addresses techniques for audio watermarking in which watermark data is codified in a plurality of Fourier transform coefficients of the audio signal.

Two Watermarking Patents From Thomson

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking and both are assigned to Thomson (FR). The first of today's patents addresses techniques for watermarking a three-dimensional object. Today's second patent addresses techniques for increasing the strength of phase-based watermarking of an audio signal.

Sony Watermarking and WhatsApp 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 Sony (JP), the first patent addresses techniques for distributing metadata embedded in video. Assigned to WhatsApp, the second patent addresses techniques for detecting echoes using audio fingerprinting.

Facebook Fingerprinting and Nagravision Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. This week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Facebook, the first of this weeks Spotlight Applications discloses techniques for indexing based on time-variant transforms of an audio signal's spectrogram. Assigned to Nagravision, the second application discloses techniques for embedding watermark in uncompressed video data for use in a conditional access system.

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.

Bragi and Orange DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Bragi (DE), the first application discloses an earpiece with Digital Rights Management. Assigned to Orange (FR), the second application discloses techniques for obtaining of access rights to a network, implemented by a communicating object.

Excalibur IP Fingerprintiing and Fortinet Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. This week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Excalibur IP, the first patent addresses techniques for providing contextually relevant information for multimedia content streaming through a rendering device. Assigned to Fortinet, the second patent addresses techniques for data leak protection.

Chicago Merc and Convey DRM and Blockchain Patent Applications

We continue the theme of patent applications addressing digital rights management (broadly construed) and blockchain (distributed ledger) technologies. Assigned to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the first of today's Spotlight Applications discloses techniques for implementing a real time reconciling shared data structure. Apparently assigned to Convey, the second application discloses techniques for cloud-based contacts management.

Source Digital Fingerprinting and Nanjing Watermarking Patent Applications

New patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Source Digital, the first application discloses techniques for audio fingerprinting based on audio energy characteristics. Assigned to Nanjing Watermarking Technology (CN), the second application discloses techniques utilizing image code for processing information and device and method for generating and parsing same.

Omnifone and Gula Consulting 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 Omnifone (GB), the first patent addresses techniques for enabling digital music content to be downloaded to and used on a portable wireless computing device. Assigned to Gula Consulting, the second patent addresses techniques for electronic media distribution.

iHeartMedia Fingerprinting and Nielsen Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to iHeartMedia, the first application discloses techniques for identifying changed broadcast media items. The second application discloses techniques for down-mixing compensation for audio watermarking.

Enswers Fingerprinting and Thomson Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Enswers (KR), the first of today's applications discloses techniques for advertisement detection based on fingerprints. Assigned to Thomson, the second application discloses techniques for increasing the strength of phase-based watermarking of an audio signal,

Google and Cellco Partnership 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 Google, the first patent addresses techniques for identify one or more copyright-infringing time slices in a plurality of audio sequential time slices. Assigned to Cellco Partnership, the second patent addresses techniques for secure element-centric digital rights management.

Nielsen and DivX 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 Nielsen, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for down-mixing compensation for audio watermarking. Assigned to DivX, the second patent addresses techniques for session based watermarking of media content using encrypted content streams.

Samsung and TiVo Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays.  Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Samsung, the first patent addresses techniques for music retrieval using modulation spectrum. Assigned to TiVo, the second patent addresses additional content associated with media content identified based on a fingerprint.

Amazon and Google Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Amazon, the first patent addresses techniques useful for 3D printing data for viewpoint invariant object recognition. Assigned to Google, the second patent addresses techniques for associating audio tracks of an album with video content.

Microsoft Fingerprinting and Nielsen Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Microsoft, the first application disclose techniques for real-time emotion recognition from audio signals. Assigned to The Nielsen Company, the second application disclose techniques for using audio watermarking for people monitoring.

STMicroelectronics and Beijing U of Technology Watermarking Patent Applications

New patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking.  Assigned to STMicroelectronics (SG, NL), the first application discloses techniques for adding a watermark to an audio signal.  Assigned to Beijing University of Technology, the second application discloses techniques for embedding and extracting multi-scale space based watermark.

Infosys Watermarking and Empire Technology 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 Infosys Ltd. (IN), the first patent addresses techniques for embedding and extracting a watermark in a video. Assigned to Empire Technology Development, the second patent addresses techniques for using audio fingerprint differences for end-to-end quality of experience measurement.

Amazon and Apple Digital Fingerprinting Patent Appplications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays.  This week's Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Amazon, the first application discloses techniques for identifying protected media files. Assigned to Apple, the second application discloses techniques for analyzing audio input for efficient speech and music recognition.

HP Watermarking and Google 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 HP, the first patent addresses techniques for digital watermarking using saturation patterns. Assigned to Google, the second patent addresses techniques for adding pitch shift resistance to an audio fingerprint.

wayStorm and Cisco Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the PTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to wayStorm (TW), the first application discloses an advertisement distribution system and method for controlling operations of mobile electronic device. Assigned to Cisco, the second application discloses techniques for using a watermark with data integrity verification.

Dolby And Synergy Sports Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Dolby, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for storing and searching fingerprints derived from media content based on a classification of the media content. Assigned to Synergy Sports Technology, LLC, the second patent concerns techniques for generating bookmark video fingerprints.

IBM and GFK Telecontrol Digital Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the PTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to IBM, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for virtual world embedded security watermarking. Assigned to GFK Telecontrol (CH), the second patent addresses a monitoring device for capturing audience research data.

Digimarc Watermarking and Gracenote Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New patent applications are published by the PTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Digimarc, the first application discloses techniques for reducing watermark perceptibility and extending detection distortion tolerances. Assigned to Gracenote, the second application discloses techniques for identifying video content via color-based fingerprint matching.

Thomson and Cisco Watermarking Patent Applications

New patent applications are published by the PTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking.  Assigned to Thomson (FR), the first application discloses the use of watermarking techniques in second screen systems and devices. Assigned to Cisco, the second application discloses techniques for encryption-resistant watermarking.

Yahoo! and Google Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued on Tuesdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Yahoo!, the first patent addresses techniques for using audio fingerprints for content identification. Assigned to Google, the second patent addresses techniques for using fingerprinting to match videos having varying aspect ratios.

Panasonic and Hitachi Digital Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the PTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Panasonic, the first patent addresses techniques for utilizing spread spectrum techniques for in car applications. Assigned to Hitachi (JP), the second patent addresses  techniques for classifying sections of an image into a plurality of embedded areas.

Gracenote and Thomson Digital Fingerprint Patent Applications

Thursdays the PTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. assigned to Gracenote, the first application discloses techniques for generating and detecting fingerprints for synchronizing audio and video. Assigned to Thomson Licensing (FR), the second application discloses techniques for frame accurate advertisement insertion.

Google Fingerprinting and Cleversafe Watermarking Patents

The PTO issues new patents on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Google, the first patent addresses techniques for facilitating combined multiple fingerprinters for media. Assigned to Cleversafe, Inc., the second patent addresses techniques for watermarking slices stored in a dispersed storage network.

Samsung and Lemi Technology DRM Patent Applications

Thursdays the PTO publishes new pending patent applications. This week's Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Samsung (KR), the first application discloses techiques relating to a secure operating system for receiving information for controlling digital rights management (DRM) content. Assigned to Lemi Technology, the second application discloses techniques for providing a radio station at a user device using previously obtained DRM locked content.

Nielsen Watermarking and Sony Fingerprinting Patents

The PTO issues new patents on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Nielsen, the first patent addresses techniques for identifying media.  Assigned to Sony, the second patent addresses media fingerprinting for social networking