Managing Rights Management

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 discloses techniques for active state synchronization between distributed ledger technology (DLT) platforms.

Google and Toshiba Digital Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Google, the first patent addresses techniques for secure session-based video watermarking for online media streaming. Assigned to Toshiba, the second patent addresses techniques for a generating unit that makes use of a key random number which is input, and outputs a filter for determining a first band and a second band which represent at least a single pair of frequency bands in which a digital watermark bit is to be embedded.

CEA and Proclus Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. This week's Spotlight Applications continues the theme of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to CEA (FR), the first of this week's applications discloses techniques for managing access to personal data by means of a smart contract. Assigned to Proclus (CN), the second application discloses techniques for implementing automatic transaction rebroadcasting for transient blockchains.

Walmart and Americorp Blockchian and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Walmart, the first patent addresses techniques for managing reservations and deliveries for a docking station. Assigned to Americorp Financial, the second patent addresses techniques for generating a customized view of a blockchain transaction.

ZhongAn Technology and 8eo Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to 8eo, the first application discloses techniques for content management across a multi-party conferencing system. Assigned to ZhongAn Technology (CN), the second application discloses techniques for smart contract upgrades based on alliance chain.

USPS and Telepathy Labs Blockchain Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to the USPS, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for a digital trust architecture. Assigned to Telepathy Labs, the second patent addresses techniques for social engineering identification and alerting.

Accenture and Alibaba Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Accenture, the first application discloses techniques for a decentralized supply chain for three-dimensional printing based on distributed ledger technology. Assigned to Alibaba, the second application discloses techniques for verifying the integrity of data stored in a consortium blockchain using a public sidechain.

Verizon and Telepathy Labs Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Verizon, the first patent addresses techniques for using blockchains in conjunction with virtual SIM cards. Assigned to Telepathy Labs, the second patent addresses techniques for deprovisioning.

Intertrust and Biyani Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed.Assigned to Intertrust (Hi Dave), the first application discloses techniques for facilitating the secure recording and use of assertions made by entities regarding other entities.  Assigned to Amit Biyani, the second application discloses techniques for a shared and synchronous time series identification that matches a hardware clock-generating signal of a blockchain identified node device, with a generated data event time stamp and shared by all computing nodes participating in a complete system based on a blockchain design pattern and protocol.

Chicago Merc Ex and Cryptographic ASICs Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the first patent addresses techniques for a bilateral assertion model and ledger implementation. Assigned to Cryptographic ASICs, the second patent addresses a cryptographic ASIC with self-verifying unique internal identifier.

Accenture and Walmart Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications  concern aspects of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Accenture, the first application discloses techniques for blockchain enhanced entitlement control. Assigned to Walmart, the second application discloses techniques for blockchain-based  supply chain control.

BofA and Strong Force IOT Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to BofA, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for tracking transfer of resources in a process data network. Assigned to Strong Force IOT, the second patent addresses techniques for the industrial internet of things.

OSRAM and IDLogic Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to OSRAM (DE) the first application discloses including blockchains for controlled agricultural systems and methods of managing agricultural systems. Assigned to IDLogic, the second application discloses techniques for secure serialization of supply chain product units.

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 histogram.

Alibaba and Denso Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Alibaba, the first application discloses techniques for asymmetric key management in consortium blockchain networks. Assigned to Denso (JP), the second application discloses techniques for authenticating and authorizing devices.

Monegraph and Blockchain ASICs Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Monegraph, the first patent addresses techniques for rights transfers using block chain transactions. Assigned to Blockchain ASICs, the second patent addresses techniques for a transform-enabled integrated circuit with a combined transformation/hashing block, such as for cryptographic proof-of-work systemsl

Sony and IBM DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Sony, the first application discloses techniques for the transport and acquisition of DRM-related information. Assigned to IBM, the second application discloses techniques for video composition by dynamic linking.

IBM and Winklevoss Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to IBM, the first patent addresses concomitance of an asset and identity block of a blockchain. Assigned to Winklevoss IP, the second patent addresses techniques for generating a stable value digital asset tied to a blockchain.

Two Salesforce Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. The first patent discloses techniques for implementing intelligent consensus, smart consensus, and weighted consensus models for distributed ledger technologies in a cloud based computing environment. The second patent discloses techniques for implementing super community and community sidechains with consent management for distributed ledger technologies in a cloud based computing environment

Nielsen Watermarking and Square 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 Nielsen, the first patent addresses techniques for detecting watermark modifications. Assigned to Square, the second patent addresses techniques for processing transactions in offline mode.

Nasdaq and Sensoriant Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. The first application discloses techniques for systems that integrate with a blockchain to provide for certification and verification of the origin and integrity of digital data as it is created, edited, and/or released. Assigned to Sensoriant, the second application discloses techniques for consistency and consensus management in decentralized and distributed systems.

Adobe and TWC DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Adobe, the first of today's Spotlight Patents addresses techniques for digital rights management leveraging motion or environmental traits. Assigned to Time Warner Cable, the second patent addresses techniques for control of data and content protection mechanisms across a network using a download delivery paradigm.

Cambridge Blockchain and Robot Cache Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Cambridge Blockchain, the first application discloses techniques for managing relationships among digital identities. Assigned to Robot Cache, the second application discloses techniques for media distribution employing contracts implemented in a distributed ledger.

Tata and Verance Digital Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. This weeks Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Tata (IN), the first of this week's patents addresses techniques for embedding and extracting a watermark from a digital media. Assigned to Verance, the second patent addresses techniques for content synchronization using watermark timecodes.

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.

Chicago Merch Ex and IBM Blockchain and DRM Patents

The USPTO issues new patents on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents continue the theme of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for a bilateral assertion model and ledger implementation thereof. Assigned to IBM, the second patent addresses techniques for decentralized autonomous edge compute coordinated by smart contract on a blockchain.

eBay and IBM Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. This week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to eBay, the first of this week's applications discloses techniques for the secure management of content distribution data blocks on a blockchain. Assigned to IBM, the second application discloses techniques for converting processes into multiple blockchain smart contracts.

IBM and Archemy Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. This week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to IBM, the first patent addresses techniques for smart contracts that are included in a ledger. Assigned to Archemy, the second patent addresses techniques for active adaptation of networked compute devices using vetted reusable software components.

MorphTrust Watermarking and Snell 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 MorphoTrust, the first application addresses techniques for digitally watermarking digital facial portraits. Assigned to Snell Advanced Media (GB), the second application addresses techniques for managing visual content.

Broadbridge Financial and X-Prime Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents continue our theme of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Broadbridge Financial Solutions, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for database-centered computer network systems and computer-implemented methods for cryptographically-secured distributed data management based on entropy and having a supervisory node. Assigned to X-Prime, the second patent addresses techniques for implementing an efficient, scalable homomorphic transformation of encrypted data with minimal data expansion and improved processing efficiency.

PencilData and PayPal Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to PencilData, the first application discloses techniques for dynamically generated smart contracts. Assigned to Paypal, the second application discloses an encryption based shared architecture for content classification.

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.

IBM Watermarking and Gracenote Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to IBM, the first of today's applications addresses techniques for increased security using dynamic watermarking. Assigned to Gracenote, the second application addresses techniques for media channel identification with multi-match detection and disambiguation based on location.

Symbiont and Sensoriant Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents continue the theme of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Symbiont.IO, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for encrypted electronic storage and confidential network transfer of private data through a trustless distributed ledger technology system. Assigned to Sensoriant, the second patent addresses techniques for sharing and trading user data and preferences between computer programs and other entities while preserving user privacy.

Bull SAS and Michael Beck Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Bull SAS (FR), the first application discloses techniques for the creation and management of decentralized authorizations for connected objects. Apparently assigned to Michael Beck, the second application discloses techniques for a decentralized information sharing network.

Forcepoint and Denso Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Forcepoint, LLC, the first patent addresses techniques for generating a cyber behavior profile comprising monitoring user interactions between a user and an information handling system. Assigned to Denso (LP), the second patent addresses techniques for authenticating and authorizing devices.

Securrency and Mayne et al Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications continue the theme of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Securrency, the first application discloses techniques for compliance aware tokenization and control of asset value. Assigned to Mayne et al., the second application discloses techniques for matching renewable energy production to end-user consumption via blockchain systems.

Averon and Nielsen 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 Averon, the first patent addresses techniques for verifying a user based on digital fingerprint signals derived from out-of-band data. Assigned to Nielsen, the second patent addresses techniques for flagging advertisement frames for automatic content recognition.

Beck and nChain 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 (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Michael Beck, the first application discloses digital containers for smart contracts. Assigned to nChain Holdings, the second application discloses an operating system for blockchain IOT devices.

Amazon and Simons Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents continue the theme of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Amazon, the first of this week's patents addresses techniques for verifiable cryptographically secured ledgers for human resource systems. Assigned to Jordan Simons, the second patent addresses a  distributed multi-ledger gambling architecture.

Two IBM Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications continue the the theme of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed.

Enswers Fingerprinting and NOA 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 Enswers (KR), the first patent concerns an advertisement detection system and method based on fingerprints. Assigned to NOA, the second patent concerns techniques for redacting video for compression and identification of releasing party.

NXM and nChain Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Applications concern blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Both applications also concern semiconductors. Assigned to nChain, the first application discloses techniques for implementing logic gate functionality using a blockchain. Assigned to NXM, the second application discloses techniques for a blockchain identification system.

MorphoTrust Watermarking and CIsco 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 MorphoTrust USA, the first patent addresses a digital identification document including a digital biometric of the person and a digital watermark, the digital watermark encoding personally identifiable information of the person. Assigned to Cisco, the second patent addresses techniques for multi-blend [digital] fingerprinting.

Intel and PWC Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. This today's Spotlight Applications continue the theme of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Intel, the first application discloses techniques for data confidentiality in distributed ledger. Assigned to PricewaterhouseCoopers, the second application discloses techniques for validation of distributed data storage systems.

Merck and Xerox Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents continue the theme of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Merck (DE) the first patent addresses a reader device for reading a marking comprising a physical unclonable function [see spec and claims for blockchain discussions]. Assigned to Xerox, the second patent addresses techniques for secure revisioning auditing system for electronic document files.

Acxiom and Lex Persona Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays.  Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Acxiom, the first application discloses techniques for applying fingerprinting/watermarking of consumer data, and analyzing "wild files" of consumer data to assign a guilt score for a particular party who may have leaked the data. Assigned to Lex Persona, the second application discloses techniques for an open, secure electronic signature system.

Two Blockchain ASICs Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. This week's Spotlight Patents continue the theme of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed and both are assigned to Blockchain ASICs LLC. The first patent concerns techniques for a transform-enabled integrated circuit for use in cryptographic proof-of-work systems. The second patent concerns a cryptographic ASIC and method for autonomously storing a unique internal identifier into a one-time programmable memory in isolation by a foundry.

nChain and Intensity Analytics Blockchain and DRM Patent Application

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. This week's Spotlight Applications continue the theme of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to nChain Holdings (AG), the first application discloses techniques for implementing logic gate functionality using a blockchain.  Assigned to Intensity Analytics Corporation, the second application discloses techniques for providing attribution to blockchain transactions.

Disney Watermarking and Boeing 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 Disney, the first patent addresses techniques for descriptive metadata extraction and linkage with editorial content. Assigned to Boeing, the second patent addresses techniques for generating a fingerprint for verification of a reference object.