Managing Rights Management

Netflix Fingerprinting and Digimarc Watermarking Patents

New patents are published by the USPTO on Tuesdays.  This week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking.  Assigned to Netflix, the first of this week's patents address techniques for identifying previously streamed portions of a media title to avoid repetitive playback. Assigned to Digimarc, the second patent addresses techniques for estimating watermark signal strength, an embedding process using the same, and related arrangements.

Capital One and Bull SAS Blockchain and Rights Management Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Capital One, the first patent addresses techniques for authorized data sharing using smart contracts.  Assigned to Bull SAS (FR), the second patent addresses techniques for the creation and management of decentralized authorizations for connected objects.

Viasat and Palo Alto Networks Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Viasat, the first patent addresses techniques for improving utilization of a communications system (e.g., a satellite communications system) are provided, using techniques referred to herein as "deltacasting." Assigned to Palo Alto Networks, the second patent addresses techniques for detecting repackaged applications based on file format fingerprints.

Oracle and Drive Time Metrics Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents continue our theme of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Oracle, the first patent addresses techniques for providing a representational state transfer proxy service for a blockchain cloud service. Assigned to Drive Time Metrics, the second patent addresses techniques for cross channel in-car media consumption measurement and analysis using blockchain.

Yoti and Walmart Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Yoti, the first patent addresses techniques for a digital identity system generating a sharing token for authenticating a bearer to a validator. Assigned to Walmart, the second patent addresses a blockchain-based system and method for supply chain control.

Cisco and Domus Tower Blockchain and Rights Mangement Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents continue the theme of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management. Assigned to Cisco, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for content and service sharing. Assigned to Domus Tower (AU), the second patent addresses techniques for distributing work load of high-volume per second transactions recorded to append-only ledgers.

ADB and Gracenote Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to ADB (CH), the first patent addresses techniques for automatic categorization of audio/video content. Assigned to Gracenote, the second patent addresses techniques for identifying video content via color-based fingerprint matching.

BofA and SAP Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to BofA, the first patent addresses techniques for bockchain-based property management. Assigned to SAP (DE), the second patent addresses techniques for identity verification using blockchain technology.

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 sound and music signals in high noise and distortion.

Farmobile and GE Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are published by the USPTO on Tuesdays. This week's Spotlight Patents continue the theme of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Farmobile, the first patent addresses techniques for distributed transaction-based security and tracking of agricultural machine and agronomic data. Assigned to General Electric, the second patent addresses techniques for blockchain verification of network security service.

Beatdapp and Ranieri Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Beatdapp Software, the first patent addresses techniques for scalably tracking media playback using blockchain. Assigned to Ranieri IP, LLC, the second patent addresses techniques for servicing an obligation utilizing a blockchain.

Symbiont.IO and Capital One Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuedays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Symbiont.IO, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for implementing a smart contract on a distributed ledger technology platform. Assigned to Capital One, the second patent addresses techniques for authorizing the sharing of data and sharing data between a variety of systems.

Philips and Datalogic IP Digital Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Philips (NL), the first patent addresses techniques for image recording and 3D information acquisition. Assigned to Datalogic IP Tech, the second patent addresses techniques for digital watermark localization based upon background foreground estimation.

Google Fingerprinting and Wistaria Trading Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. 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 Wistaria Trading LTD (BM) [Hi Scott], the second patent addresses techniques for utilizing data reduction in steganographic and cryptographic systems.

Clause and Accenture 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 Clause, the first patent addresses techniques for forming, storing, managing, and executing contracts. Assigned to Accenture, the second patent addresses techniques for entitlement tracking and control with blockchain technology.

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 for image information recognition processing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Akiri and Blockchain ASICs Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents continue our theme of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Akiri, the first patent addresses techniques for trust based access to records via encrypted protocol communications with authentication system. Assigned to Blockchain ASICs, the second patent addresses techniques for a cryptographic ASIC and method for enforcing a derivative key hierarchy for managing an information stream.

Gracenote and NBCUniversal 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 generating and detecting a fingerprint functioning as a trigger marker in a multimedia signal. Assigned to NBCUniversal, the second patent addresses techniques for mapping affiliated graphs using video fingerprints

Two Amazon 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. Both of today's patents are assigned to Amazon. The first patent addresses techniques for key distribution in a distributed computing environment. The second patent addresses techniques for key revocation.

Microsoft and Sony and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Microsoft, the first patent addresses techniques for supporting a plurality of content protection systems in a single container file. Assigned to Sony (JP), the second patent addresses techniques for transport and acquisition of DRM-related information.

Proclus Technologies and Leng and Leng Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents continue the theme of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Proclus Technologies Limited (CN), the first patent addresses techniques for securing a blockchain with proof-of-transactions. Apparently assigned to the inventors, Leng and Leng, the second patent addresses techniques for splitting digital promises recorded in a blockchain.

Gracenote Fingerprinting and NXP Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Gracenote, the first patent addresses techniques for media channel identification and action with multi-match detection based on reference stream comparison. Assigned to NXP (NL), the second patent addresses techniques for watermarking input and output of a white-box implementation.

Amazon and Bull SAS 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 Amazon the first patent addresses techniques for signature delegation. Assigned to Bull SAS (FR), the second patent addresses techniques for the creation and management of decentralized authorizations for connected objects.

Dish Fingerprinting and Digital Voice Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Dish, the first patent addresses techniques for pre-distribution identification of broadcast television content using audio fingerprints. Assigned to Digital Voice Systems, the second patent addresses techniques for audio watermarking via phase modification.

AT&T and SonicWall 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 AT&T, the first patent addresses techniques for sharing timed fingerprint location information. Assigned to SonicWall, the second patent addresses techniques for image based spam blocking.