Managing Rights Management

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.

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.