Managing Rights Management

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 →

Wells Fargo Quantum and Alipay Smart Contract Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Wells Fargo, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for layered quantum computing detection. Assigned to Alipay (CN), the second patent addresses techniques for executing a smart contract in a blockchain... 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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

NIKE and ANT Smart Contacts and Blockchain Patents

Smart contracts, blockchains (distributed ledgers), and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to ANT, the first patent addresses techniques for deploying a smart contract. Assigned to NIKE, the second patent addresses techniques for video game integration of cryptographically secured digital assets. 11,307,990, "Deploying a... Read more →

Alipay and HUST Smart Contract Patents

Smart contracts, blockchains (distributed ledgers), and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Both of today's patents are from Chinese organizations. Assigned to Alipay, the first patent addresses techniques for executing a smart contract. Assigned to Huazhong University of Science and Technology ("HUST"), the second patent... Read more →

Red Hat and Trace Smart Contracts 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 providing smart contracts including secrets encrypted with oracle-provided encryption keys using threshold cryptosystems. Assigned to Trace, the second patent addresses techniques for writing... Read more →

SECARM and JPMorgan Chase Blockchain Patents

Smart contracts, blockchains (distributed ledgers), and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to SECARM, the first patent addresses techniques for a block chain network and hash-based cuckoo filter. Assigned to JPMorgan Chase Bank, the second patent addresses techniques for software license management using a... Read more →

ANT and Madisetti Blockchain Patents

Smart contracts, blockchains (distributed ledgers), and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to ANT, the first patent addresses techniques for detecting replay attacks. Assigned to Vijay Madisetti, the second patent addresses techniques for service meshes and smart contracts for zero-trust systems. 11,283,634, "System and... Read more →

ANT and SAP Blockchain Patents

Smart contracts, blockchains (distributed ledgers), and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to ANT (KY), the first patent addresses techniques for information protection using blockchains. Assigned to SAP (DE), the second patent addresses techniques for data protection and privacy regulations based on blockchain. 11,277,389,... Read more →

Walmart and State Farm Blockchain Patents

Smart contracts, blockchains (distributed ledgers), and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Walmart, the first patent addresses techniques for forecasting deliveries via blockchain smart contracts. Assigned to State Farm, the second patent addresses techniques for a shared ledger operated by a group of... Read more →

eBay and Alipay Blockchain Patents

Smart contracts, blockchains (distributed ledgers), and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to eBay, the first patent addresses techniques for system level function based access control for smart contract execution on a blockchain. Assigned to Alipay (CN), the second patent addresses techniques for consensus... Read more →

Trend Micro and Sony Blockchain and DRM Patents

Smart contracts, blockchains (distributed ledgers), and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Trend Micro (JP), the first patent addresses techniques for distributed digital rights management with decentralized key management. Assigned to Sony (JP), the second patent addresses techniques for blockchain-based digital rights management.... Read more →

Thompson Reuters and ANT Blockchain Patents

Smart contracts, blockchains (distributed ledgers), and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Thompson Reuters, the first patent addresses techniques for remedying erroneous transactions in a distributed ledger system. Assigned to ANT (KY), the second patent addresses techniques for implementing cross-chain data trusted management.... Read more →

Salesforce Smart Contract and Wells Fargo Quantum Patents

Smart contracts, blockchains (distributed ledgers), and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Salesforce, the first patent addresses techniques for implementing declarative smart actions for coins and assets transacted onto a blockchain using distributed ledger technology (DLT). The second of today's patents is the... Read more →

ANT and IBM Blockchain Patents

Smart contracts, blockchains (distributed ledgers), and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to ANT, the first patent address techniques for blockchain-based judgment execution. Assigned to IBM, the second patent addresses techniques for consent-based data management. 11,238,549, "Blockchain-based judgment execution," assigned to Advanced New Technologies... Read more →

IBM, Cisco, and Eluvio Blockchain Patents

Smart contracts, blockchains (distributed ledgers), and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. A rare 3-fur today. Assigned to IBM, the first patent addresses techniques implementing a right to be forgotten on an immutable ledger. Assigned to Cisco, the second patent addresses techniques for decentralized content... Read more →

IBM and Mythical Blockchain Patents

Smart contracts, blockchains (distributed ledgers), and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to IBM, the first patent addresses techniques for proof-of-work for smart contracts on a blockchain. Assigned to Mythical, the second patent addresses techniques for transfer of rights pertaining to game assets between... Read more →

Wells Fargo and Huawei Blockchain 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 of today's patents continues last week's theme of quantum computing and blockchains, more specifically, a post-quantum cryptography side chain. Assigned to Huawei, the second patent addresses techniques... Read more →

Two Wells Fargo Quantum and Blockchain Patents

Smart contracts, blockchains (distributed ledgers), and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents are assigned to Wells Fargo Bank. The first patent addresses techniques for quantum entanglement authentication (QEA) / quantum consensus. The second patent addresses techniques for quantum-safe blockchain vault... Read more →

RBC and Madisetti Blockchain Patents

Smart contracts, blockchains (distributed ledgers), and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to the Royal Bank of Canada, the first patent addresses techniques for an electronic identity brokerage. Assigned to Professor (Georgia Tech) Vijay K.Madisetti, the second patent addresses techniques for blockchain-based combined identity,... Read more →

IBM and Alipay Smart Contract Patents

Smart contracts, blockchains (distributed ledgers), and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to IBM, the first patent addresses techniques for converting processes into multiple blockchain smart contracts. Assigned to Alipay, the second patent addresses techniques for generating a smart contract test case. 11,205,178, "Converting... Read more →

Alipay and NHN Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Alipay (CN), the first patent addresses techniques for blockchain-based trustable guarantees. Assigned to NHN (KR), the second patent addresses techniques for constructing sub blockchain in blockchain system comprising distributed network of... Read more →

CapOne and PayPal Blockchain Patents

Smart contracts, blockchains ( distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to CapOne, the first patent addresses techniques for authorized data sharing using smart contracts. Assigned to PayPal, the second patent addresses techniques for verifying a user using proof-of-life for participation in... Read more →