Managing Rights Management

Intel and PWC Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. This today's Spotlight Applications continue the theme of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Intel, the first application discloses techniques for data confidentiality in distributed ledger. Assigned to PricewaterhouseCoopers, the second application... Read more →

Gracenote and Cohesity Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Gracenote, the first application discloses techniques for presenting additional content at a media system. Assigned to Cohesity, the second application discloses techniques for deduplicating chunks of data across multiple... Read more →

Western Digital and Rockwell Automation 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 Western Digital, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for a personal multimedia content archive. Assigned to Rockwell Automation, the second patent addresses an architecture for application of... Read more →

Western Digital and MobiTV DRM Patents

The PTO issues new patents on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotllight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Western Digital, the first patent addresses techniques related to digital rights management (DRM) for content that may be downloaded and securely transferred from one storage to another storage. Assigned to... Read more →

Broadcom and Western Digital DRM Patents

Tuesdays the PTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Broadcom, the first patent addresses techniques for using a digital rights management metafile, management protocol and applications thereof. Assigned to Western Digital, the second patent addresses a digital rights management system... Read more →

Intel and Western Digital DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the PTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Intel [Imtel in the published app; typo probably], the first application discloses techniques using storage devices to implement digital rights management protection. Assigned to Western Digital,... Read more →