Managing Rights Management

Symbiont.IO and Northern Trust Blockchain and DRM Patents

The USPTO issues new patents 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 Symbiont.IO, the first patent addresses techniques for implementing a programming model for smart contracts within a decentralized computer network. Assigned to Northern Trust, the second patent addresses techniques for implementing smart contract modules on a decentralized network.

IBM and Nielsen Digital Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned ti IBM, the first patent addresses techniques for integrity verification of an audio-visual data stream. Assigned to The Nielsen Company, the second patent addresses techniques for performing audio watermarking and watermark detection and extraction

Xerox and Forcepoint Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of blockchain(distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Xerox, today's first patent addresses techniques for a secure revisioning auditing system for electronic document files. Assigned to Forcepoint, the second patent addresses techniques for managing blockchain access to user profile information.

Papirys and Verizon 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 Papirys, the first patent addresses techniques for an ultra-secure blockchain-based electronic information transfer system. Assigned to Verizon, the second patent addresses techniques for using virtual subscriber identity modules (vSIMs) for client devices.

Silveredge Technologies and Sorenson Media 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 Silveredge Technologies (IN), the first patent addresses techniques for hardware agnostic detection of television advertisements. Assigned to Sorenson Media, the second patent addresses techniques for fingerprinting media content using hashing.

Intel and Netflix DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Intel, the first patent addresses techniques for distributing digital rights management digital content in a controlled network ensuring digital rights. Assigned to Netflix, the second patent addresses techniques for fast-expiring licenses used to speculatively authorize access to streaming media content.

Gracenote and Enswers 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 and action with multi-match detection based on reference stream comparison. Assigned to Enswers (KR), the second patent addresses techniques for an advertisement detection system and method based on fingerprints.

Truepic and Harmonic Digital Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Truepic, the first patent addresses techniques for authenticating photographic image data. Assigned to Harmonic, the second patent addresses techniques for using watermarks in distributed construction of video on demand (VOD) files.

HGST Techologies and Toshiba 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 Hitachi, the first of today's patents addresses a digital rights management system that includes a storage module that stores a usage right for digital content in a tamper-resistant portion of a memory. Assigned to Toshiba, the second patent addresses an electronic device and method of transmitting a content item.

Facebook and BARCO Audio Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of audio fingerprinting. Assigned to Facebook, the first patent addresses techniques for broadcast content view analysis based on ambient audio recording. Assigned to BARCO N.V. (BE), the second patent addresses techniques for ad hoc one-time pairing of remote devices using online audio fingerprinting.

Accenture and Forcepoint 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 Accenture, the first patent addresses techniques for secure 3D model sharing using distributed ledger. Assigned to Forcepoint, the second of today's patents addresses techniques for generating a user behavior profile in a blockchain.

Intel Watermarking and Gracenote 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 Intel, the first patent addresses techniques for video watermarking. Assigned to Gracenote, the second patent addresses techniques for media channel identification with multi-match detection and disambiguation based on location.

Sony and TAI Technologies DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Sony, the first patent addresses techniques for statutory license restricted digital media playback on portable devices. Assigned to TAI Technologies, the second patent addresses techniques for targeted messaging, workflow management, and digital rights management for geofeeds.

Western Digital and Rockwell Automation 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 Western Digital, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for a personal multimedia content archive. Assigned to Rockwell Automation, the second patent addresses an architecture for application of digital rights management to industrial automation devices including programmable logic controllers (PLCs), I/O devices, and communication adapters.

NBCUniversal and KPN 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 NBCUniversal Media, the first patent addresses techniques  for fingerprint-defined segment-based content delivery. Assigned to KPN (NL), the second patent addresses techniques for fingerprint-based inter-destination media synchronization.

BofA and Bao Tran Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are issued by by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to BofA, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for allowing external validation of data in a process data network. Assigned to Bao Tran, the second patent addresses an IoT device in which blockchain smart contracts can be used with the device to facilitate secure operation.

IBM and Western Digital DRM Patents

New patents are published by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to IBM, the first patent addresses techniques for distributed digital rights-managed file transfer and access control. Assigned to Western Digital, the second patent addresses techniques for legally transferring multimedia content stored on a medium to a personal content archive device.

MorphoTrust and Unisys Digital Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USTPO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to MorphoTrust, the first patent addresses techniques for digitally watermarking digital facial portraits. Assigned to Unisys, the second patent addresses techniques for protecting data using steganography ("hidden writing").

Adobe and Sony DRM Patents

New patents are issued on Tuesdays (Including patent 10,000,000). Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Adobe, the first patent addresses techniques for parts-based digital rights management. Assigned to Sony (JP), the second patent addresses techniques for digital rights management of encrypted digital content

IBM and Omnifone 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 IBM, the first patent addresses techniques for detecting usage of copyrighted video content using object recognition. Assigned to Omniphone (GB), the second patent addresses techniques for enabling digital music content to be downloaded to and used on a portable wireless computing device.

IBM and Northern Trust 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 IBM, the first patent addresses techniques for privacy-preserving transaction validation mechanisms for smart contracts that are included in a ledger. Assigned to Northern Trust, the second patent addresses techniques for digital identity management and permission controls within distributed network nodes.

Gracenote Fingerprinting and Nagravision 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 selection of content from a stream of data. Assigned to Nagravision (CH), the second patent addresses techniques for embedding a watermark in uncompressed video data.

Digimarc and FUOC Digital Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking.  Assigned to Digimarc, the first patent addresses techniques for watermarking and signal recognition for managing and sharing captured content, metadata discovery and related arrangements. Assigned to Fundacio per a la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (ES), the second patent addresses techniques for audio watermarking in which watermark data is codified in a plurality of Fourier transform coefficients of the audio signal.

Cox and TWC Conditional Access Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of conditional access systems used in cable and satellite media distribution systems. Assigned to Cox Communications, the first patent addresses techniques for emulating cable services delivery. Assigned to Time Warner Cable, the second patent concerns techniques for control of data and content protection mechanisms across a network using a download delivery paradigm.

Qatar Foundation Fingerprinting and Ningbo University Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned the Qatar Foundation (QA), the first patent addresses techniques to store video fingerprints on distributed nodes in cloud systems. Assigned to Ningbo University (CN), the second patent addresses techniques for zero-watermarking registration and detection method for HEVC video streaming against requantization transcoding.

Two Intertrust Technologies DRM Patents

Both of this week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management and both are assigned to Intertrust Technologies. The first patent addresses software self-checking mechanisms for improving software tamper resistance and/or reliability. The second patent addresses techniques for managing and protecting electronic content and applications.

Madisetti et al and Ripple Blockchain and DRM Patents

New patents are are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. This week we continue the theme of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. The first of this week's Spotlight Patents is apparently assigned to the inventors (there seems to be a strong Georgia Tech connection) and addresses techniques for operating secure digital management aware applications. Assigned to Ripple (Luxembourg), the second patent addresses techniques for determining that results produced from executions of software have not been altered or falsified.

Madisetti et al and Microsoft Blockchain and DRM Patents

Today's Spotlight Patents continue the theme of blockchain (block chain, distributed ledger) and digital rights management broadly construed.  Apparently assigned to Madisetti et al. (the inventors), the first patent addresses techniques for operating secure digital management aware applications. Assigned to Microsoft, the second of today's patents enable users to collect and share a primary data structure defining a centralized object..

Adobe and Irdeto 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 Adobe, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for DRM using geographic and temporal traits. Assigned to Irdeto (NL), the second patent addresses techniques for controlling use of encrypted content by a plurality of client terminals each provided with a digital rights management (DRM) client and a content decryption module separate to the DRM client

Two Watermarking Patents From Thomson

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking and both are assigned to Thomson (FR). The first of today's patents addresses techniques for watermarking a three-dimensional object. Today's second patent addresses techniques for increasing the strength of phase-based watermarking of an audio signal.

Palantir and BoA DRM Patents

New patents are issued on Tuesdays by the USPTO. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Palantir Technologies, the first patent addresses techniques for automatic and customizable data minimization of electronic data stores. Assigned to BofA, the second patent addresses techniques for reconciliation of access rights in a computing system.

Sony Watermarking and WhatsApp 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 Sony (JP), the first patent addresses techniques for distributing metadata embedded in video. Assigned to WhatsApp, the second patent addresses techniques for detecting echoes using audio fingerprinting.

IBM and EMC 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 IBM, the first patent addresses techniques for copyright infringement prevention. Assigned to EMC, the second patent addresses techniques for secure search.

Samsung and MobiTV 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 Samsung, the first patent addresses techniques for providing cloud-based digital rights management. Assigned to MobiTV, the second patent addresses digital rights management for HTTP-based media streaming.

Digimarc and Wistaria Trading Digital Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Digimarc, the first patent addresses assembly of multi-part food packaging is checked by reference to payloads of steganographically-encoded digital watermarks printed across plural components of the packaging. Assigned to Wistaria Trading  (HI SCOTT), the second patent addresses techniques for utilizing data reduction in steganographic and cryptographic systems.

IBM and Forcepoint Blockchain and DRM Patents

For this week's Spotlight Patents, continue with the theme of blockchain (distributed ledger) and digital rights management, broadly construed. Assigned to IBM, the first of this week's patents addresses techniques for a drone used for authentication and authorization for restricted access via an electronic lock. Assigned to Forcepoint, the second patent addresses techniques for generating a cyber behavior profile.

Wire IP and Concurrent Computer DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. This week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Wire I.P, (IE), the first patent addresses techniques for controlling access to copyrighted data. Assigned to Concurrent Computer Corporation, the second patent addresses techniques for hierarchical key management for digital rights management.

GoPro Watermarking and Sorenson Media 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 GoPro, the first patent addresses techniques for an inter frame watermark in a digital video. Assigned to Sorenson Media, the second patent addresses techniques for detecting channel change in automatic content recognition fingerprint matching.

Netspective and Uhr-Hong Blockchain and DRM Patents

We continue with the theme of blockchain (distributed ledger) and digital rights management (broadly construed) patents. Assigned to Netspective Communications, the first of our Spotlight Patents addresses techniques for distributed electronic document review in a blockchain system and computerized scoring based on textual and visual feedback. Assigned to Joon Sun Uhr and Jay Wu Hong (KR), the second patent addresses techniques for generating, providing and reproducing digital contents in conjunction with digital currency, and terminal and computer readable recording medium using same.

Excalibur IP Fingerprintiing and Fortinet 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 Excalibur IP, the first patent addresses techniques for providing contextually relevant information for multimedia content streaming through a rendering device. Assigned to Fortinet, the second patent addresses techniques for data leak protection.

IBM and Assa Abloy DRM Patents

The USPTO issues new patents on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management.  Assigned to IBM, the first patent addresses techniques for digital rights management. Assigned to Assa Abloy (SE), the second patent addresses an access control communication device.

Google and Evidan 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 Google, the first patent address techniques for using smart environment devices via application program assigned interfaces. Assigned to Evidian, the second patent addresses techniques for managing user accounts in a hosted application.

Comcast and CryptoExperts Conditional Access Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of conditional access systems used most often in cable, IPTV, and satellite media distribution systems. Assigned to Comcast, the first patent addresses techniques for reconfigurable access network encryption architecture. Assigned to CryptoExperts SAS (FR), the second patent addresses techniques for conditional access to a digital content, associated terminal and subscriber device.

Intel and Clawd 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 Intel, the first patent addresses content protection techniques for Data as a Service (DaaS). Assigned to Clawd Technologies (CA), the second patent addresses techniques for managing role-based digital rights in a computer system.

IBM and Sprint 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 IBM, the first patent addresses techniques for digital rights management (DRM)-enabled policy management for an identity provider in a federated environment. Assigned to Sprint, the second patent addresses techniques for delivering digital content to a mobile device via a digital rights clearing house.

Live Nation and Carfit DRM and Blockchain Patents

We continue the theme of DRM broadly construed and blockchain (distributed ledger). Assigned to Live Nation Entertainment, the first of today's Spotlight Patents concerns decentralized virtual trustless ledger techniques for access control. Assigned to Carfit, the second patent addresses techniques for automotive activity monitoring.

Microsoft and eBay 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 MSFT, the first patent addresses remote data access techniques for portable devices. Assigned to eBay, the second of today's patents addresses 3D printing marketplaces with federated access to printers.

Two Intertrust DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management and both are assigned to Intertrust Technologies. The first patent addresses techniques for vehicle policy enforcement. The second patent addresses techniques that use tag authentication and presence verification techniques in connection with a variety of transactions.

Cambridge Blockchain and Manifold Technology Blockchain and DRM Patents

This posting continues the theme of blockchain (or distributed ledger) and digital rights management understood broadly. Assigned to Cambridge Blockchain, LLC, the first of this week's Spotlight Patents addresses techniques for managing digital identities. Assigned to Manifold Technology, the second patent addresses techniques for providing a cryptographic platform for exchanging information.

Infosys and Rovi Guides 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 Infosys (IN), the first patent addresses techniques for providing access of digital contents to offline DRM users. Assigned to Rovi Guides, the second patent addresses techniques for providing storage of data on servers in an on-demand media delivery system.