Managing Rights Management

TuneGO and Aurign Blockchain Patents

Smart contracts, (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to TuneGO, first patent addresses techniques for tokenized media content management. Assigned to Aurign, the second patent addresses techniques for creating music publishing agreements from metadata of a digital audio workstation. 11500972,... Read more →

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 →