Managing Rights Management

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 second application discloses techniques for embedding watermark in uncompressed video data for use in a conditional access system.

Moog and Electric Motor Werks Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. We continue with the theme of blockchain (distributed ledger) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Moog, Inc., the first of today's Spotlight Applications discloses techniques for the verification and authentication of additive manufactured product. Assigned to Electric Motor Werks, the second application discloses techniques for enabling automatic management of power loads and power generation based on user-specified set of rules

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 to a network, implemented by a communicating object.

Facebook and Avast Software Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Facebook, the first application discloses techniques for identifying matching content. Assigned to Avast Software (CZ), the second application discloses techniques for using prefix fingerprints for a first file or a first data object.

Cable Labs and Clause DRM and Blockchain Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays Today we continue our Spotlight Application focus on digital rights management broadly construed and blockchain (distributed ledger) technologies. Assigned to Cable Labs (see also these), the first of today's applications discloses techniques for blockchain virtualization and scalability. Assigned to Clause, the second application discloses techniques for forming, storing, managing, and executing contracts.

Ericsson and Viaccess 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 Ericsson (SE), the first application discloses techniques for video distribution control. Assigned to Viaaccess (FR), the second application discloses techniques for broadcasting protected multimedia contents.

Pulselocker 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 Pulselocker, the first application discloses techniques for limiting access to data by process or computer function with stateless encryption. Assigned to IBM, the second application discloses techniques for detecting usage of copyrighted video content using object recognition.

Intel and Warstler Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

We continue the theme of patent applications that address blockchain (distributed ledger) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Intel, the first Spotlight Application discloses a blockchain system with nucleobase sequencing as proof of work. Apparently assigned to the inventor, Warstler, the second application discloses techniques for provisioning electronic forms.

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 for cloud-based contacts management.

MarkAny and Tencent DRM Patent Applications

New patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to MarkAny (KR), the first application discloses DRM systems for protecting enterprise confidentiality. Assigned to Tencent (CN), the second application discloses techniques for processing multimedia files

The Real McCoy and Comcast DRM and Blockchain Patent Applications

We continue the theme of patent applications combining blockchain (distributed ledger) and digital rights management broadly understood. Assigned to The Real McCoy, the first of today's Spotlight Applications address techniques for establishing, securing and transferring computer readable information using peer-to-peer public and private key cryptography. Assigned to Comcast, the second of today's applications addresses techniques for distributed data access control.

Two BofA DRM and Blockchain Patent Applications

We continue the theme of digital rights management and blockchain (or distributed ledger) patent applications. Both of this week's Spotlight Applications are assigned to Bank of America. The first application discloses techniques for managing serializability of resource transfers in a process data network. The second application discloses techniques for control of device identity and usage in a process data network.

Ascribe and Bitmark Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

We continue the theme of the use of blockchain (or distributed ledger) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Ascribe GMBH (DE), the first of today's Spotlight Applications concerns techniques to securely establish, affirm, and transfer ownership of artworks. Assigned to Bitmark (TW), the second application concerns techniques for decentralized title recordation and authentication.

Accenture and BofA DRM and Blockchain Patent Applications

For this week's Spotlight Applications, we are looking at blockchain and digital rights management. Assigned to Accenture, the first application discloses techniques for secure 3D model sharing using distributed ledger. Assigned to Bank of America, the second application discloses techniques for establishing secure access for users in a process data network.

Source Digital Fingerprinting and Nanjing Watermarking Patent Applications

New patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Source Digital, the first application discloses techniques for audio fingerprinting based on audio energy characteristics. Assigned to Nanjing Watermarking Technology (CN), the second application discloses techniques utilizing image code for processing information and device and method for generating and parsing same.

Amazon and Adobe 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 Amazon, the first application discloses techniques for extensible workflows for processing content. Assigned to Adobe, the second application discloses techniques for digital rights management progressive control and background processing.

Konica Minolta and Adobe 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 Konica Minolta (JP), the first application discloses access control techniques for selected document contents using document layers and access key sequence. Assigned to Adobe, the second application discloses techniques for digital rights management using organizational associations (See also related applications 20170278206 and 20170277868 also published today).

Philips Lighting Watermarking and Sorenson Media 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 Philips Lighting, the first application discloses techniques related to an image handling module for protecting an image of a scene captured by a camera. Assigned to Sorenson Media, the second application discloses techniques using fingerprint layouts for content fingerprinting.

Adobe and PostOak Today 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 Adobe, the first application discloses techniques for portion-level digital rights management in digital content. Assigned to PostOak.Today, LLC, the second application discloses techniques for establishing shared memory spaces for data access and distribution.

Gracenote Fingerprinting and Verance Watermarking 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 Gracenote, the first application discloses techniques for media channel identification and action with multi-match detection and disambiguation based on matching with differential reference-fingerprint feature. Assigned to Verance, the second application discloses techniques for service signaling recovery for multimedia content using embedded watermarks.

Qualcomm Fingerprinting and Raytheon Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking.  Assigned to Qualcomm, the first application discloses techniques for semantically sensitive code region hash calculation for programming languages. Assigned to Raytheon, the second application discloses techniques for waveform watermarking.

Irdeto and Sirius XM Radio 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 Irdeto (NL), the first of today's applications addresses techniques for providing access to content using encryption keys and DRM clients. Assigned to Sirius XM Radio, the second application addresses techniques for content caching services in satellite and satellite/IP content delivery systems where metadata may include DRM information.

Facebook and Enswers Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Facebook, the first application addresses techniques for managing silence in audio signal identification. Assigned to Enswers (KR), the second application addresses techniques that at least in part use digital fingerprinting for surveying broadcasting ratings.

Apple and BrowsePlay 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 Apple, the first application discloses techniques for securing user data with DRM keys. Assigned to BrowsePlay, the second application discloses techniques for secure cross-platform video transmission.

KAIST and Digimarc Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to KAIST (KR), the first application discloses techniques for three-dimensional mesh model watermarking method using segmentation. Assigned to Digimarc, the second application discloses techniques for rendering image content that include a digital watermark pattern at an essentially fixed scale, regardless of the size of screen on which the content is displayed.

Encryptics and Sony DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Encryptics, LLC, the first application discloses techniques for digital rights management of documents. Assigned to Sony, the second application discloses techniques for statutory license restricted digital media playback on portable devices.

Globalive XMG Watermarking and Disney Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New patent applications are published on Thursdays. This week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Globalive XMG (CA), the first application disclose techniques for using watermarking in a broadcast AR [augmented reality] layer.  Assigned to Disney, the second application discloses techniques for the automated application of business rules using temporal metadata and content fingerprinting.

Gracenote and Dolby Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Both of this week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Gracenote, the first application discloses a computing system with content-characteristic-based trigger feature. Assigned to Dolby, the second application discloses techniques for acquisition, recovery, and matching of unique information from file-based media for automated file detection.

eBay and Adobe DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to eBay, the first application discloses techniques for digital rights and integrity management in three-dimensional (3D) printing. Assigned to Adobe, the second application discloses techniques for digital rights management using geographic and temporal traits.

Two Le Shi Watermaking Patent Applications

The USPTO publishes new pending patent applications on Thursdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of watermarking and both are assigned to Le Shi Internet Information & Technology Corp (CN) and Le Holdings (CN). The first application discloses techniques for displaying a watermark applied to a player terminal. The second application discloses techniques for controlling video playing.

LG and Disney Digital Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to LG Electronics (KR), the first application discloses techniques for providing a mobile broadcast service in a TV receiver. Assigned to Disney, the second application discloses technique for creating a temporal-based dynamic watermark.

Comcast and Konica Minolta 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 Comcast, the first application discloses an adaptive rights management system. Assigned to Konica Minolta (JP), the second application discloses a digital rights management system providing event notifications for user actions based on access control rules.

Gracenote Fingerprinting and Tautachrome Watermarking 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 Gracenote, the first of today's applications addresses techniques for media source identification. Assigned to Tautachrome, the second application addresses techniques for authentication and validation of smartphone imagery.

AirWatch and Microsoft DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to [VMWare] AirWatch, the first application addresses techniques for applying rights management policies to protected files. Assigned to Microsoft, the second patent addresses techniques for using multiple content protection systems in a file.

NCR Watermarking and Dell Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. This week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to NCR, the first application discloses techniques for document geometric deformation watermarking and tracking. Assigned to Dell, the second application discloses techniques for image based spam blocking.

Accenture and LVRT DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays.  Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Accenture, the first application discloses techniques for 3-D printing protected by digital rights management. Assigned to LVRT, the second application discloses techniques for a database system for dynamic retrieval of nested data items [including copyrighted items and derivatives].

AppNexus Watermarking and IPextreme Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. This weeks Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to AppNexus, the first application discloses techniques for pixel-based watermarking. Assigned to IPextreme, the second application discloses techniques for IP fingerprinting and IP DNA analysis.

KPN and Sorenson Media Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to KPN(NL), the first application discloses techniques for fingerprint-based inter-destination media synchronization. Assigned to Sorenson Media, the second application discloses techniques for frequency capping for media content.

EMC and Rovi Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

 New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. This week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to EMC, the first application discloses techniques for fingerprint based status detection in a distributed processing system. Assigned to Rovi, the second application discloses techniques for identifying a source of media content based on a log of fingerprints.

ESL Laboratory and Viaccess Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to ESL Laboratory, the first application discloses techniques for protecting sensitive documents. Assigned to Viaccess (FR), the second application discloses techniques for identifying a content being displayed on a screen.

ETRI and ActiveVideo 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 the Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute (KR), the first application discloses techniques for controlling copying of broadcast content and a method for recording and playing back broadcast content. Assigned to ActiveVideo Networks, the second application discloses techniques for securely bridging third-party digital rights management to local security.

Sharp Watermarking and Facebook 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 Sharp (JP), the first application discloses techniques for decoding a content bitstream including receiving a respective watermark associated with different portions of said content bitstream. Assigned to Facebook, the second application discloses techniques for detecting commercials based on audio fingerprinting.

Nielsen and Digimarc Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Nielsen, the first application discloses techniques for performing audio watermarking and watermark detection and extraction. Assigned to Digimarc, the second application discloses techniques for closed form non-iterative watermark embedding.

Alarm.com Fingerprinting and MorphoTrust Watermarking 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 Alarm.com, the first application discloses techniques for tracking intruders of a monitored property by the unique identifying characteristics or "digital fingerprints" of electronic devices carried by the intruders. Assigned to MorphoTrust, the second application discloses techniques for a computer-implemented method for validating a digital document.

Boeing and Dropbox Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Boeing, the first application discloses techniques for generating a fingerprint for verification of a reference object. Assigned to Dropbox, the second application discloses techniques for duplicate/near duplicate detection and image registration.

Adobe and August Home DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Adobe, the first of today's applications discloses techniques for digital rights management and behavioral traits. Assigned to August Home, the second application discloses techniques for an intelligent door lock system with audio and RF communication.

Thomson Watermarking and AmpMe 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 Thomson (FR), the first application discloses techniques for determining in a 2nd screen whether or not watermarked audio content received from a 1st screen has been stopped, a watermark symbol detection in the received audio content and a related detection strength value determination is carried out. Assigned to AmpMe (CA), the second application discloses techniques for synchronized playback of streamed audio content by multiple Internet-capable portable devices.

iHeartMedia Fingerprinting and Nielsen Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to iHeartMedia, the first application discloses techniques for identifying changed broadcast media items. The second application discloses techniques for down-mixing compensation for audio watermarking.

Sorenson Media Fingerprinting and VMware Watermarking Patent Applications

New patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. This week's Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Sorenson Media, the first application discloses techniques for detecting channel change in automatic content recognition fingerprint matching. Assigned to VMware, the second application discloses watermarking and scalability techniques for a virtual desktop planning tool.

Konica Minolta and Intel 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 Konica Minolta, the first application discloses techniques for hybrid digital rights management and for related document protection. Assigned to Intel, the second application discloses techniques for selective content licensing and secure playback.