Managing Rights Management

TuneGO and AiMi Blockchain and Music Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, NFTs, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to TuneGO, the first application discloses techniques for tokenized media content management. Assigned to AiMi, the second application discloses techniques for block-chain ledger based tracking of generated music content. 20210248214, "Tokenized... Read more →

Taiyuan University and NXP Watermarking Patents

Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Taiyuan University of Technology (CN), the first of today's patents addresses techniques for embedding spread spectrum watermark into images with self-adaptive embedding strength. Assigned to NXP (NL), the second patent addresses techniques for watermarking an audio signal with spatial information.... Read more →

Nielsen and Nuance Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published in Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to The Nielsen Company, the first application discloses techniques for multiple scrambled layers for audio watermarking. Assigned to Nuance, the second application discloses techniques for watermarking of synthetic speech. 20210043217, "Multiple... 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 →

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... Read more →

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. 10,628,382, "Teleporting... Read more →

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... Read more →

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... Read more →

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... Read more →

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,... Read more →

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... 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 →

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... Read more →

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. 10,169,838,... Read more →

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... Read more →

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... Read more →

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... Read more →

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... Read more →

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... Read more →

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... Read more →

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... Read more →

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... 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 →

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... Read more →

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. 9,912,986,... Read more →

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... Read more →

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... Read more →

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... Read more →

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... Read more →

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... Read more →