Managing Rights Management

Adobe and TWC DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Adobe, the first of today's Spotlight Patents addresses techniques for digital rights management leveraging motion or environmental traits. Assigned to Time Warner Cable, the second patent addresses techniques for control... Read more →

Gracenote and NBCUniversal 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 Gracenote, the first patent addresses techniques for generating and detecting a fingerprint functioning as a trigger marker in a multimedia signal. Assigned to NBCUniversal, the second patent addresses techniques... Read more →

Silveredge Technologies and Sorenson Media Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Silveredge Technologies (IN), the first patent addresses techniques for hardware agnostic detection of television advertisements. Assigned to Sorenson Media, the second patent addresses techniques for fingerprinting media content... Read more →

Truepic and Harmonic 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 Truepic, the first patent addresses techniques for authenticating photographic image data. Assigned to Harmonic, the second patent addresses techniques for using watermarks in distributed construction of video on demand... Read more →

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. 9,898,588, "Method... Read more →

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... Read more →

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. 9,667,688,... Read more →

Apple and TWC Conditional Access Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of conditional access systems often deployed in cable television systems. Assigned to Apple, the first application discloses techniques for provision of a lease for streaming content. Assigned to Time Warner Cable,... Read more →

LG and DivX Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to LG Electronics (KR), the application discloses techniques for transmitting and receiving broadcast signals wherein a watermark is embedded in the uncompressed stream. Assigned to DivX, the second application discloses... Read more →

Intertrust 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 Intertrust technologies, the first patent addresses techniques for fragmented file sharing. Assigned to Broadcom, the second patent addresses mobile payTV DRM architectures. 9,344,473, "Methods, systems, and apparatus for... Read more →