Managing Rights Management

IBM 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 IBM, the first application discloses techniques for a blockchain digital rights management streaming library. Assigned to nChain, the second application discloses techniques for blockchain implemented counting system and method for use... Read more →

Eluvio and HYPR Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Eluvio, the first patent addresses techniques for a decentralized content fabric (also see Eluvio's 11,063,865 which issued today). Assigned to HYPR, the second patent addresses techniques for federated identity management with... Read more →

Attestiv and Connect Health Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Attestiv, the first application discloses techniques for authenticating a digital media asset, and particularly to verifying the authenticity of digital image or video files which may have been redacted or otherwise... Read more →

Dream Channel and Symbiont.io Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Dream Channel (AU), the first of today's patents addresses techniques for virtual reality interaction monitoring using distributed ledgers. Assigned to Symbiont.io, the second patent addresses techniques for for implementing a smart... Read more →

Intertrust and eBay Blockchain and Rights Management Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Intertrust Technologies, the first of today's applications discloses various techniques for content management that may employ distributed ledgers. Assigned to eBay, the second patent discloses techniques for secure management of content... Read more →

Adobe and Nielsen Fingerprinting and Watermarking Patents

Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking (a form of steganography). Assigned to Adobe, the first patent addresses techniques for content creation, fingerprints, and watermarks. Assigned to Nielsen, the second patent addresses techniques for using steganographically-encoded time information as basis to establish a time offset, to... Read more →

Ericsson and Ting Tech Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Ericsson (SE), the first of today's applications discloses techniques for collaborative task offloading automation in smart containers. Assigned to Ting Tech, the second application discloses techniques for interactively broadcasting value via... Read more →

Factom and Taliware Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Factom, the first of today's Spotlight Patents addresses techniques for smart contracts in blockchain environments. Assigned to Taliware, the second patent addresses techniques for passive authentication of an individual using an... Read more →

Microsoft and salesforce Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Microsoft, the first application discloses techniques for controlling and tracing an object across a plurality of parties. Assigned to salesforce.com, the second application discloses techniques for storing PII information via a... Read more →

Clarovia Holdings and Salesforce.com Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Clarovia Holdings, the first patent addresses techniques for using smart contracts to control the trade, supply, manufacture, and distribution of commodities. Assigned to salesforce.com, the second patent addresses techniques for implementing... Read more →

Perpetual Altruism and Americorp Investments Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Perpetual Altruism (GB), the first application discloses techniques for auctioning an item for a seller, and computer implemented method of updating a smart contract. Assigned to Americorp Investments, LLC, the second... Read more →

Verizon and Lottery Now Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Verizon, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for for blockchain ledger growth management using separation of a blockchain ledger into multiple blockchain ledgers. Assigned to Lottery Now, the second patent... Read more →

Strong Force and Warstler Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Strong Force, the first application discloses techniques for crowdsourcing condition of guarantor. Assigned to the inventor, Morgan Warstler, the second application discloses techniques for creating a computer application based on a... Read more →

USAA and Identify3D Blockchain and Rights Management Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to United Services Automobile Association, the first of today's patents address techniques to track, store, and manage events, rights and liabilities. Assigned to Identify3D, the second patent addresses techniques for data management... Read more →

IBM and Monax Industries Smart Contracts Patent Applications

Smart contracts (Blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. IBM tackles an important problem: the formal verification of smart contracts. Monax Industries also addresses aspects of smart contracts, more specifically, techniques for obtaining and recording consent for a proposed object of consent... Read more →

IBM and Mores Blockchain and Rights Management Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to IBM, the first of today's patents concerns techniques for storing data via a blockchain ledger based on a consensus of a set of anchor blockchain nodes which are subset of nodes... Read more →

DISH and Salesforce Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to DISH, the first application discloses techniques for content anti-piracy management. Assigned to salesforce.com, the second application discloses techniques for implementing super community and community sidechains with consent management for distributed ledger... Read more →

PwC and Coinplug Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to PricewaterhouseCoopers, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for a cryptoconomy solution for administration and governance in a distributed system. Assigned to Coinplug (KR), the second patent addresses techniques for providing... Read more →

Adobe and Immunity Bio Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Adobe, the first of today's applications discloses a smart contract platform that facilitates creation, execution and verification of customized smart contracts. Assigned jointly to Immunity Bio and Nant Holdings IP, LLC... Read more →

Microsoft and Vertigo Studios Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. (Note patent number 11,000,000 was issued today). Assigned to Microsoft, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for consensus-based policy management. Assigned to Vertigo Studios, the second patent concerns techniques for a blockchain-enabled... Read more →

Adobe and Whoborn Blockchain and Rights Management Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Adobe, the first application discloses techniques for providing proof and attestation services for claim verification. Assigned to Whoborn, Inc. (KR), the second application discloses techniques for content management using blockchains. 20210133803,... 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 →

Three Lefts and Accenture Blockchain and Rights Management Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Three Lefts Inc (CA), the first application discloses techniques for enforcing a contract for the access of content. Assigned to Accenture, the second application discloses techniques for the automatic creation of... Read more →

Wells Fargo and Pinx Blockchain and Rights Management Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, the first patent addresses techniques for managing data across disparate blockchains. Assigned to Pinx, the second patent addresses techniques for a distributed social media network and system of... Read more →

Live Nation and 2218716 Alberta Blockchain and Rights Management Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Live Nation, the first of today's applications discloses techniques for securing access rights to resources using cryptography and the blockchain. Assigned to 2218716 Alberta (CA), the second application discloses techniques for... Read more →

Mythical and Netspective Blockchain and Rights Management Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Mythical, the first patent addresses techniques for using shared user inventory information to initiate a peer-to-peer exchange of a non-fungible digital asset. Assigned to Netspective, the second patent addresses techniques for... Read more →

Eluvio and ANT Blockchain and Rights Management Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Eluvio, the first application discloses techniques for implementing aspects of a decentralized content fabric. Assigned to ANT, the second application discloses techniques for blockchain-based copyright protection. 20210112117, "Decentralized content fabric," assigned... Read more →

Theta Labs and Broadridge Financial Blockchain and Rights Management Patents

Today's Spotlight Patents continue our theme of blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Theta Labs, the first patent addresses techniques for peer discovery in a decentralized data streaming and delivery network. Assigned to Broadridge Financial Solutions, the second patent addresses techniques for database-centered computer... Read more →

Instant! Communications and CapOne Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains, (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Instant! Communications, the first application discloses techniques for a dynamic radio access mesh network. Assigned to CapOne, the second application discloses techniques for redemption and settlement transactions via smart contracts. 20210105625,... Read more →

Visa and ATT Blockchain and Rights Management Patents

Today's Spotlight Patents continue our theme of blockchains (smart contracts distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Visa, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for tracking multiple classes of records in a single blockchain. Assigned to AT&T, the second patent addresses techniques for authenticating media based on... Read more →