Managing Rights Management

Meta Platforms and Matthew James NFT and Smart Contract Patent Applications

Smart contracts (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Meta Platforms, the first application discloses techniques for transactions associated with non-fungible tokens (NFT) using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Assigned to Matthew Charles James, the second application discloses... 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 →

GridPlus and MRInnovations Smart Contact and Blockchain Patent Applications

Smart contracts (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to GridPlus, the first application discloses techniques for secure conditional transfer of cryptographic data allows transfer of cryptographically-based data from one party to another while mitigating failure of a counterparty to perform.... 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 →

TBS and Akamai Blockchain Patent Applications

Smart contracts (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to TBS, the first application discloses techniques for providing media content to content consumers for playback and consumption. Assigned to Akamai, the second application discloses techniques for a high performance distributed system... 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 →

IBM and KPMG Smart Contract and Blockchain Patents

Smart contracts (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications.Both of today's patents address aspects of using smart contracts. Assigned to IBM, the first patent concerns techniques for blockchain endorsement agreements using smart contracts. Assigned to KPMG, the second patent addresses techniques for... Read more →

Michael Lewis Podcast On Tracing Illicit Cryptocurrency

Podcast here For his next book, Michael Lewis wants to find out how investigators manage to trace the murky trail of illicit crypto. Cryptocurrency started with the dream of cash changing hands without a trace. But that dream has turned into a nightmare for many would-be criminals. A new field... Read more →

Disney and VCB Tech Smart Contract Patent Applications

Smart contracts (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Disney, the first application discloses techniques to facilitate game unit management with a smart contract responsive to battles involving the game units. Assigned to VCB Technologies, LLC, the second application discloses... Read more →

nChain and Entrust 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 nChain Holdings (CH), the first of today's patents addresses techniques for arithmetic enhancement of C-like smart contracts for verifiable computation. Assigned to Entrust & Title (AE), the second patent addresses techniques... Read more →