Managing Rights Management

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.

Verizon and Intel DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management and one concerns the use of blockchain. Assigned to Verizon and Cellco Partnership, the first patent address for techniques for secure distributed information and password management including blockchain. Assigned to Intel, the second patents addresses techniques for selectively licensing segments of source content.

Nagravision Watermarking and Gracenote Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USTPO on Tuesdays. This week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Nagravision (CH), the first patent addresses techniques for embedding a watermark in uncompressed video data. Assigned to Gracenote, the second patent addresses techniques for inserting advertisements and/or other supplemental or replacement content into a stream of video content.

Intel and CSC Holdings 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 of today's patents addresses technologies for supporting multiple digital rights management protocols on a client device. Assigned to CSC Holdings, the second patent addresses techniques for a flexible video-on-demand viewing period that is varied depending on whether the customer has completed viewing the entire program, allowing the viewing period to be extended if the customer has not completed viewing the entire program.

TiVo and Robert Bosch Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Robert Bosch (DE), the first of today's patents addresses techniques for device pairing with audio fingerprint encodings.

Qumu and Dell Digital Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. This week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Qumo, the first patent addresses techniques for decoding a watermarked video includes receiving a video including a watermark and three or more pilot signals. Assigned to Dell, second of this week's patents addresses techniques for digital watermarking for securing remote display protocol output.

Verint Americas and Hitachi 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 Verint Americas, the first patent addresses techniques for digital rights management control using video analytics. Assigned to Hitachi (JP), the second patent addresses techniques for an  interface that can prevent video signals from being copied easily and which uses a luminance/color difference signal transmission scheme with an excellent harmony with a television circuit. 

Intralinks and Oracle 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 Intralinks, the first patent addresses techniques for secure data exchange. Assigned to Oracle, the second patent concerns techniques for live masking file system access control entries.

Snowflake Solutions and Digimarc 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 Snowflake Solutions, the first patent addresses techniques for unique watermarking for digital media. Assigned to Digimarc, the second patent addresses techniques for digital watermarking and data hiding with narrow-band absorption materials

Microsoft and Toshiba 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 Microsoft, the first patent addresses techniques for social network media sharing with client library. Assigned to Toshiba (JP), the second patent addresses a content transmitter that is configured to output a content item including first data and second data to one transmission path, by applying a first copyright protection system to copyright protection of the first data and applying a second copyright protection system to copyright protection of the second data.

TCL Research and MUTR 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 TCL Research of America, the first patent addresses techniques for video retrieval based on optimized selected fingerprints. Assigned to MUTR, Llc, the second patent addresses techniques for monitoring a program signal for certain content, and performing a set of tasks when target content is recognized.

Pulselocker and Konica Minolta 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 Pulselocker, the first patent addresses techniques for limiting access to data by process or computer function with stateless encryption. Assigned to Konica Minolta, the second patent addresses techniques for digital rights management for emails and attachments.

Google Fingerprinting and Nielsen Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of  digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Google,the first patent addresses techniques involving fingerprinting for early detection of policy violating media.  Assigned to The Nielsen Company, the second patent addresses techniques for encoding a compressed media stream.

Adobe and Gracenote 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 Adobe, the first patent addresses techniques for content creation and licensing control. Assigned to Gracenote, the second patent addresses techniques for generating and detecting a fingerprint functioning as a trigger marker in a multimedia signal.

Intel and Ericsson DRM Patents

Newly issued patents are published by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Intel, the first of today's patents addresses a digital rights management handler and related methods. Assigned to Ericsson (SE), the second patent addresses DRM plugins.

Xerox and Nielsen 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 Xerox, the first patent addresses techniques for 3D printer steganography. Assigned to Nielsen, the second patent addresses techniques for down-mixing compensation for audio watermarking.

Samsung and Kaspersky DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays including holidays such as the 4th of July. Both of this week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Samsung, the first patent addresses techniques for transmitting and receiving message for downloadable CAS [Conditional Access System] or DRM in MMT. Assigned to Kaspersky Labs (RU), the second patent addresses techniques for controlling opening of files by vulnerable applications.

Websense Fingerprinting and Digimarc 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 Websense, the first patent addresses techniques for efficient detection of fingerprinted data and information. Assigned to Digimarc, the second patents addresses techniques for detecting conflicts between multiple different encoded signals within imagery.

Facebook and Google Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued on Tuesdays by the USPTO. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Facebook, the first patent addresses techniques for managing silence in audio signal identification. Assigned to Google, the second patent addresses techniques for adding pitch shift resistance to an audio fingerprint.

Irdeto Watermarking and Enswers Fingerprinting Patents

The USPTO issues new patents on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Irdeto (NL), the first patent addresses techniques for providing watermarked content to multiple end user devices. Assigned to Enswers (KR), the second patent addresses techniques for surveying broadcasting ratings.

Oracle and Arris 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 Oracle, the first patent addresses service level digital rights management support in a multi-content aggregation and delivery system. Assigned to Arris Enterprises, the second patent addresses techniques for a Digital Rights Management (DRM) system that reduces time for a move transaction using DTCP-IP when a copy is moved back or checked back in to an originating Personal Video Recorder (PVR).

Boeing and Amazon Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are published by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Boeing, the first patent addresses techniques for generating a fingerprint for verification of a reference object and is one of the few applications of digital fingerprinting I've seen in manufacturing. Assigned to Amazon, the second patent addresses techniques for identifying protected media files.

Wallrust and Amazon Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Wallrust, the first patent concerns techniques for identifying peers by their interpersonal relationships. Assigned to Amazon, the second patent concerns techniques for analyzing the security of applications.

Omnifone and Gula Consulting 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 Omnifone (GB), the first patent addresses techniques for enabling digital music content to be downloaded to and used on a portable wireless computing device. Assigned to Gula Consulting, the second patent addresses techniques for electronic media distribution.

Intertrust and Ericsson 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 Intertrust, the first patent addresses techniques for trusted storage systems. Assigned to Ericsson (SE), the second patent addresses compression and decompression techniques for DRM license information delivery.

Amazon Fingerprinting and TLS Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the PTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Amazon, the first patent addresses techniques for checking the integrity of a document by comparing a prior fingerprint of a document with a result of a fingerprint function applied to content of the document. Assigned to TLS, the second patent addresses techniques for inserting watermarks into audio signals that have speech-like properties.

Intertrust and Sonic IP 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 Intertrust, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for a digital rights management engine that evaluates a license associated with protected content to determine if a requested access or other use of the content is authorized. Assigned to Sonic IP, the second patent addresses techniques for enabling playback of digital content using electronic tickets and ticket tokens representing grant of access rights.

IBM and Tata 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 IBM, the first patent addresses techniques for accessing an electronic asset using content augmentation. Assigned to Tata, the second patent addresses techniques for assigning access rights in enterprise digital rights management systems.

Fuji Xerox Watermarking and Abecassis 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 Fuji Xerox (JP), the first patent addresses techniques for deforming image elements of a watermark from intermediate print data. Assigned to Abecassis et al., the second patent addresses techniques for implementing a second screen trivia function.

Konica Minolta and IBM 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 Konica Minolta, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for automating the management and interpretation of digital documents and their owners rights metadata for generating digital rights management protected contents.

Nagravision and Verance Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking.  Assigned to Nagravision, the first patent addresses techniques for embedding watermarks in uncompressed video data.  Assigned to Verance, the second patent addresses techniques that facilitate accessing metadata associated with a primary audio visual content.

eBay and Intertrust 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 eBay, the first patent addresses techniques for digital rights and integrity management in three-dimensional (3D) printing. Assigned to Intertrust, the second patent addresses techniques for protecting electronic content from the time it is packaged through the time it is experienced by an end user

Intertrust and Microsoft 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 Intertrust, the first of today's patents concerns techniques for governing derived electronic resources.  Assigned to Microsoft, the second patent concerns techniques for using policies for digital rights management that enable distribution of full-function versions of applications that, while fully functional, have functions limited by an associated policy.

ATT and Fujitsu DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to AT&T, the first patent addresses techniques for digital multimedia recorder with functionality following loss of provider network service. Assigned to Fujitsu, the second patent addresses techniques for using data in which digital copyrighted work is stored, and a plurality of separation data separated from the data, a header of the data stores position information for specifying a separation region in which one of the separation data is separated.

Abecassis and SparkCognition 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 Abecassis, et al., the first patent addresses techniques for displaying video information comprising: a second screen device obtaining current play position data of a video being played on a primary screen device . Assigned to SparkCognition, the second patent addresses techniques for creating a core cognitive fingerprint that can be used to capture the evolution of a system state and potentially respond with a predetermined action if the fingerprint falls within a threshold.

Intertrust and Verizon DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Patents concerns aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Intertrust, the first patent addresses techniques for governing content rendering, protection, and management applications. Assigned to Verizon, the second patent addresses techniques for a virtual set-top box ("STB") device system receiving a registration request to register a mobile computing device to operate as a virtual STB device.

Intel and Broadcom 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 technologies for digital rights management of 3D printable models. Assigned to Broadcom, the second patent addresses techniques for  social media video encoding.

Cox and Core Wireless 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 Cox Communications, the first patent addresses whether the customer device is located within the subscription area, and if so, the content management server may determine access rights to the desired content. The second patent addresses techniques for representing and using rights for content/media adaptation/transformation.

Morega Systems and Cable Labs 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 Morega Systems (CA), the first of today's patents addresses a client device that includes a network interface coupled to receive media content and server time data via a network, wherein the media content is protected by digital rights management data. Assigned to Cable Labs, the second patent addresses techniques for registering devices in a digital rights management environment.

Google Fingerprinting and Xerox 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 identifying captured videos. Assigned to Xerox, the second patent addresses techniques for checking the security compliance of documents.

Verimatrix Watermarking and Google 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 Verimatrix, the first patent of the new year addresses techniques for securing content delivered using a playlist. Assigned to Google, the second patent addresses techniques for detecting inactive broadcasts during live stream ingestion.

Google and Cellco Partnership 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 addresses techniques for identify one or more copyright-infringing time slices in a plurality of audio sequential time slices. Assigned to Cellco Partnership, the second patent addresses techniques for secure element-centric digital rights management.

Digimarc Watermarking and TiVo 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 Digimarc, the first patent addresses techniques for feature-based watermark localization in digital capture systems. Assigned to TiVo, the second patent addresses techniques for annotating media content and for presenting additional content associated with media content identified based on a fingerprint.

Nielsen and DivX 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 Nielsen, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for down-mixing compensation for audio watermarking. Assigned to DivX, the second patent addresses techniques for session based watermarking of media content using encrypted content streams.

Cisco and IBM 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 Cisco, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for improved run time trustworthiness. Assigned to IBM, the second patent addresses techniques for digital content retrieval utilizing dispersed storage.