Managing Rights Management

Vanzetta and Equinix Blockchain Patents

Smart contracts (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned Robert Vanzetta, the first of today's patents addresses techniques to facilitate gamified arbitration of smart contracts. Assigned to Equinix, the second patent addresses techniques for tracing timestamps through immutable records. 11699202, “Method... Read more →

Wells Fargo and BCDB Blockchain and Smart Contracts Patents

Smart contracts (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, the first patent addresses a quantum-safe blockchain vault system. Assigned to BCDB, the second patent addresses object oriented smart contracts for UTXO-based blockchains. 11695570, “Quantum-safe blockchain vault system,”... Read more →

China Unionpay and Luther Systems Smart Contract Patents

Smart contracts (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to China Unionpay (CN), the first patent address techniques for control of blockchain data access based on smart contracts. Assigned to Luther Systems, the second patent addresses techniques for secure management of... Read more →

Disney and Hangzhou Qulian Technology Blockchain Patents

Smart contracts (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Disney, the first patent addresses blockchain configuration for secure content delivery. Assigned to Hangzhou Qulian Technology (CN), the second patent addresses techniques for smart contract processing, computer device, and readable storage... Read more →

Wells Fargo Quantum and Hyperchain, IBM, and Invenium Smart Contract Patents

Smart contracts (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. A Quad-fer today. Assigned to Wells Fargo, the first patent addresses techniques for quantum consensus. Assigned to Hyperchain, the second patent addresses techniques for permission-controlled smart contract upgrades. Assigned to IBM, the third... Read more →

Americorp Investments, BofA, and OpenCT Blockchain and Smart Contract Patents

Smart contracts (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. A 3fer today. Assigned to Americorp Investments, the first patent addresses distributed consent protecting data across systems and services. Assigned to BofA, the second patent addresses techniques for blockchain-based digital token utilization. Assigned... Read more →

Wells Fargo and IBM Blockchain Patents

Smart contracts (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Today we address underlying capabilities enabling blockchains and smart contracts. Assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, the first patent addresses techniques for quantum one-time pad generation. (Cf Stuart A. Haber, et al., RE34954, "Method... Read more →

Citibank and Hiro Systems Smart Contract Patents

Smart contracts (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of smart contracts. Assigned to Citibank, the first patent addresses techniques for conducting cryptographically secure actions in public, non-permissioned blockchains using bifurcated self-executing programs. Assigned to... Read more →

Experian and Wells Fargo Smart Contract and Blockchain Patents

Smart contracts (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Experian, the first patent addresses techniques for symmetric encryption for private smart contracts among multiple parties in a private peer-to-peer network. Assigned to Wells Fargo, the second patent addresses techniques for... Read more →

Monegraph and IBM DRM and Blockchain Patents

Smart contracts (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Today is a 3-fer. Assigned to Monegraph, Inc, the first patent addresses rights transfers using block chain transactions. Assigned to IBM, the second patent addresses techniques for blockchain digital rights management streaming library.... Read more →