Managing Rights Management

Two Oracle Blockchain and Rights Management Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications continue our theme of blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed. The first of the two applications assigned to Oracle discloses techniques for implementing a distributed ledger a blockchain cloud service. The second... Read more →

Oracle and StartEngine Crowdfunding Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Today's Spotlight Applications continue the themes of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Oracle, the first application discloses techniques for digital asset traceability and assurance using a distributed ledger. Assigned to StartEngine... Read more →

TLS Corp Watermarking and Johns Hopikins 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 TLS Corp, the first patent addresses techniques for inserting watermarks into audio signals that have speech-like properties. Assigned to The Johns Hopkins University, the second patent addresses... Read more →

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. 9,953,159, "Software self-checking systems... Read more →

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)... Read more →

Verance Watermarking and Siemans 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 Verance, the first patent addresses techniques for watermark detection and metadata delivery associated with a primary content. Assigned to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, the second patent addresses using a... Read more →

Dolby Watermarking and Terbium Labs Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Dolby, the first application discloses techniques for increasing the sensitivity of a watermark detector. Assigned to Terbium Labs, the second application discloses techniques for detecting copied... Read more →

Thomson Watermarking and John Hopkins Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications address digital watermarking of 3D objects (as in 3D printing) and fingerprinting as a method of determining software binary code similarities. Assigned to Thomson (FR), the first application discloses techniques for watermarking a three-dimensional object represented... Read more →

Terbium Labs and Gracenote Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the PTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Terbium Labs, the first patent addresses techniques for detecting copied computer code using fingerprints. Assigned to Gracenote, the second patent addresses techniques for authorizing devices based on identifying content... Read more →

Two Intertrust Digital Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the PTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and both are assigned to Intertrust Technologies. The first application discloses ways of encoding and protecting data using digital signature and watermarking techniques. The second application discloses software self-checking... Read more →

Stegosystems and HBO Digital Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the PTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Stegosystems, Inc., the first patent addresses techniques for a steganographic messaging system using code invariants. Assigned to HBO, the second patent addresses techniques for watermarking content for tracking media... Read more →

Intertrust and IBM Watermarking Patents

Tuesdays the PTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Intertrust, the first patent addresses techniques for watermarking software and other media. Assigned to IBM, the second patent addresses techniques for metadata embedding in streaming medical data. 8,892,893, "Systems and methods for... Read more →

Amazon and Microsoft DRM Patents

The PTO issues new patents on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Amazon, the first patent addresses digital rights management techniques for applications. Assigned to Microsoft, the second patent addresses techniques for issuing a publisher use license off-line in a digital rights... Read more →

Netflix and Condel DRM Patent Applications

Thursdays the PTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Netflix, the first application discloses techniques for the speculative pre-authorization of encrypted data streams. Assigned to Condel International, the second application discloses techniques for protecting program file content using... Read more →

SRI and Microsoft Digital Fingerprinting Patents

The PTO issues new patents on Tuedays. This week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to SRI International, the first patent addresses techniques for content-based matching of videos using local spatio-temporal fingerprints. Assigned to Microsoft, the second patent addresses techniques for security mechanism for developmental operating systems. 8,655,056,... Read more →

Apple and Microsoft DRM Patents

Tuesdays the PTO issues new patents. Both of these week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Apple, the first patent addresses techniques for digital rights management for computer program code. Assigned to Microsoft, the second patent addresses techniques for secure time source operations for digital rights... Read more →

Intertrust and Verance Watermarking Patent Applications

Thursdays the Patent Office publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Intertrust, the first application discloses techniques for software self-checking. Assigned to Verance, the second application discloses techniques for the extraction of embedded watermarks from a host content based on... Read more →

DigitalQuick

I've started using DigitalQuick from Fasoo (a spinout from Samsung). Very smart guys. App addresses a problem that's kept me off the cloud. Read more →

Purdue and IBM Digital Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Purdue Research Foundation, the first patent addresses techniques for the synchronization of digital watermarks. Assigned to IBM, the second patent addresses techniques for watermark hiding in designated applications. 8,370,635, "Synchronization of... Read more →

Adobe and Microsoft Software Fingerprinting Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Adobe, the first patent addresses techniques for identifying and tracking potential property rights in software products. Assigned to Microsoft,the second patent addresses techniques for dynamic software fingerprinting. 8,160,947, "Methods and systems... Read more →

Dolby Fingerprinting and Intertrust Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Dolby Labs, the first application discloses techniques for projection based hashing that balances robustness and sensitivity of media fingerprints. Assigned to Intertrust, the second aplication discloses techniques for software... Read more →

Amazon and HP DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the UPSTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Amazon, the first patent addresses techniques for controlling use of computing-related resources by multiple independent parties. Assigned to HP, the second patent addresses techniques for secure loading, integrity checking of... Read more →

Auckland Uniservices Watermarking and Dolby Fingerprinting Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications concern digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Dolby Laboratories, the first application discloses media fingerprints that reliably correspond to media content with projection of moment invariants. Assigned to Auckland Uniservices (AZ), the second application discloses software watermarking... Read more →

Apple and McAfee Software Obfuscation-related Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of todays Spotlight Applications concern aspects of software obsfucation as a security technique. Assigned to Apple, the first application discloses techniques for software data reference obfuscation. Assigned to McAfee, the second application discloses techniques for obfuscated malware detection. 20110167407, "System... Read more →

TVU Networks and Uniloc Digital Fingerprint Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publshes new patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to TVU Networks, the first application discloses techniques for fingerprint-based copyright protection of real-time content. Assigned to Uniloc, the second application discloses techniques for determining authorization to operate licensed software based... Read more →

How To DRM? Byteshield's FTC Submission

ByteShield, the San Francisco-based software and game DRM company, submitted comments in advance of the FTC's hearing on DRM and the consumer. Submitted by CEO Jan Samzelius, the document provides a terrific list of DRM features, functions, and capabilities that would probably delight game and software publishers and provide a... Read more →

Adobe Opens Up RTMP But Keeps DRM Under Wraps

Ars Technica reports that Adobe is opening up its Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP), its widely used streaming media protocol. At the same time, Adobe is taking legal steps to protect the DRM components used in conjunction with RTMP. Adobe has declined publish details about RTMP's DRM mechanism and will expressly... Read more →

Nate Lawson on Designing and Breaking DRM

Nate Lawson is a co-creator of the BD+ security layer on Blu-ray. He gave a talk at the recent RSA conference.that covers techniques for attacking DRM. His slides are posted here and are worth reviewing. Lawson writes: Of course, people in glass houses should not throw rocks. As someone who... Read more →

Why is Adobe Adding DRM to Flash?

EFF staff technologist Seth Schoen writes that Adobe is adding DRM to the latest version of Flash. Why they are doing this is, of course, an interesting question. Schoen suggests that the major motivation seems to be Adobe's business model: Users may also have to upgrade their Flash Player software... Read more →

Symantec NIS Ad Blocking Poll - Vote Here

The issue of ad blocking has generated a few comments to a previously blogical on the topic. I've posted a quick poll on the subject which should appear at the top of the right column. In a few days I'll let Symantec know of the poll and the results. Read more →