Managing Rights Management

ATT and DISH Blockchain Patent Applications

Smart contracts (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to AT&T, the first application discloses techniques for blockchain-based transactions of digital content. Assigned to DISH Wireless, the second application discloses techniques for monitoring services provided by a service provider to a... Read more →

nChain and JPMorgan Chase Smart Contact Patents

Smart contracts, (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to nChain (CH), the first patent addresses techniques for duplicating smart contracts with termination condition. Assigned to JPMorgan Chase, the second patent addresses techniques for smart contract-based detection of authentication attacks. 11,411,740,... Read more →

Ailia and Comcast Blockchain Patent Applications

Smart contracts (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Ailia (CH), the first application discloses techniques for the execution of an instance of a smart contract by means of a blockchain. Assigned to Comcast, the second application discloses techniques for... Read more →

eBay and ANT Smart Contract Patents

Smart contracts, (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to eBay, the first of today's patents addresses adaptive security for smart contracts using high granularity metrics. Assigned to ANT (KY), the second patent addresses techniques for traversing a smart contract database... Read more →

BofA and EMC Smart Contract Patents

Smart contracts, (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to BofA, the first patent addresses techniques for executing, securing, and non-repudiation of pooled conditional smart contracts over distributed blockchain network. Assigned to EMC, the second patent addresses electronic agreement data management... Read more →

Creative Intell and Verifi Media Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Creative Intell, the first application discloses techniques for guided collaborative digital contract drafting and negotiations using a chatbot and/or virtual assistant to guide a user through developing a digital contract. Assigned... Read more →

MO-DV and Strong Force Blockchain Patents

Blockchains, (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to MO-DV, the first patent addresses techniques for implementing a content delivery system special network device and special local area network connection, content discovery, data transfer, and control methods. Assigned to Strong... Read more →

Avila and CUZ Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Avila, the first application discloses techniques for a secure messaging service with digital rights management using blockchain technology. Assigned to Communication University of Zhejiang (CUZ) (CN), 20220207118, "Secure messaging service with... Read more →

Accenture Quantum and Alipay Blockchain Patents

Smart contracts (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Accenture, the first patent addresses techniques for quantum information interception prevention at least in part using smart contracts. Assigned to Alipay (CN), the second patent addresses techniques for executing a smart... Read more →

JPMorgan Chase and Dun and Bradstreet Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to JPMorgan Chase, the first application discloses techniques for software license management using a distributed ledger. Assigned to D&B, the second application discloses techniques for identity resolution across disparate distributed immutable ledger... Read more →

Luther Systems and Open Lens Smart Contract and Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Luther Systems, the first application discloses techniques automatic, rapid, and auditable updates of digital contracts. Assigned to Open Lens Project, the second application discloses techniques for the management of digital media... Read more →

Strong Force Smart Contracts and Kakao Games Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Strong Force, the first patent addresses transaction-enabled techniques for smart contracts. Assigned to Kakao Games (KR), the second patent addresses techniques for mediating advertisement based on block chain. 11,373,259, "Transaction-enabled systems... Read more →

IBM and Bacoor dApps Smart Contract Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to IBM, the first patent discloses techniques for implementing a contract analytic binding and provenance system. Assigned to Bacoor dApps (JP), the second application discloses techniques for managing an object including executing,... Read more →

Kyndryl and KPMG Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Kyndryl, the first application discloses techniques for securely accessing self-sovereign data via a bot-chain ledger. Assigned to KPMG, the second application discloses techniques for providing modular and configurable smart contracts for... Read more →

Comcast and Alipay Blockchain and DRM Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Comcast, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for managing digital rights. Assigned to Alipay (CN),the second patent addresses techniques for blockchain-based infringement detection. 11,362,834, "Systems and methods for managing digital... Read more →

Coinbase and Qulian Smart Contract Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Coinbase, the fist application discloses techniques for automatic smart contract analysis. Assigned to Qulian Technology (CH), the second application discloses techniques for smart contract client program generation. 20220179626, "Automatic smart contract... Read more →

Alipay and ANT Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Approximately 46 patents were issued today by the USPTO that referenced smart contacts, blockchains, or distributed ledgers. Assigned to Alipay, the first Spotlight Patent addresses techniques for blockchain-based smart contract pools. Assigned to... Read more →

Two Strong Force Smart Contract Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Both of today's applications are assigned to Strong Force TX Portfolio 2018, LLC (see also ). Both applications disclose techniques for controlling rights related to digital knowledge. 20220172207, "Computer-implemented methods for controlling rights... Read more →

Trend Micro and NB Ventures Smart Contract Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Trend Micro (JP), the first of today's patents addresses techniques for protected smart contracts for managing internet of things devices. Assigned to NB Ventures, the second patent addresses techniques for contract... Read more →

Ericsson and nChain Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Ericsson, the first application discloses techniques for network slice providers and resource providers in a communication network that are configured to cause various records related to a smart contract for one... Read more →

Wells Fargo Quantum and Gleipnir Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Wells Fargo, the first patent addresses techniques for post-quantum cryptography optimization. Assigned to Gleipnir Technologies, the second patent addresses techniques for a voting system to prevent fraud using blockchain technology. 11,343,270,... Read more →

Furman-Slotnick and Theta Labs Smart Contract Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Elliot Furman and Jayson Slotnick, the first application discloses techniques for consenting to engage in sexual activity. Assigned to Theta Labs, the second application discloses techniques for an edge computing platform... Read more →

Wells Fargo Quantum and Ericsson Smart Contacts Patents

Smart contracts, blockchains (distributed ledgers), and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Wells Fargo, the first patent addresses techniques for disparate quantum computing threat detection. Assigned to Ericsson (SE), the second patent addresses techniques for managing service access authorization using smart contracts. 11,334,667,... Read more →

NEC and Sangrove Smart Contract Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to NEC, the first application discloses techniques for creating Turing-complete smart contracts for cryptocurrencies. Assigned to Sangrove, the second application discloses techniques for creating a smart contract on a blockchain ledger. 20220147995,... Read more →

Two Alipay Smart Contracts Patents

Smart contracts, blockchains (distributed ledgers), and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Both of today's patents address aspects of smart contracts and both are assigned to Alipay (CN). The first patent addresses techniques for executing smart contract, blockchain node, and storage medium. The second patent... Read more →

BBVA and Madisetti Smart Contact Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (ES), the first application discloses techniques for smart contract based exchanges via a blockchain. Assigned to Prof. Vijay Madisett, the second application discloses techniques for smart contracts... Read more →

Wells Fargo Quantum and ANT Smart Contract Patents

Smart contracts, blockchains (distributed ledgers), and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Wells Fargo, the first patent focuses on techniques for post-quantum cryptography optimization. Assigned to ANT (KY), the second patent focuses on techniques for blockchain smart contract-based data processing. 11,322,050, "Systems and... Read more →

Hessegg and Bee Mortgage App Blockchian Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Hessegg, the first application discloses techniques for an intellectual property trade system using a block chain, comprising at least one trader terminal connected to a block chain network in which trade... Read more →

Red Hat and TBS Blockchain Patents

Smart contracts, blockchains (distributed ledgers), and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Red Hat, the first patent addresses techniques for encrypted multi-stage smart contracts that is to be performed by a contract executor in a plurality of successive stages. Assigned to TBS, the... Read more →

Verizon and ZeU Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Verizon, the first application discloses techniques for a digital asset management system sending a non-fungible digital asset from a first computer system to a second computer system. Assigned to ZeU Technologies... Read more →