Managing Rights Management

Three Digital Seat Media Blockchain NFT Smart Contract Patent Applications

Smart contracts (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. All are assigned to Digital Seat Media: the first application discloses techniques for delivering augmented reality content. The second discloses techniques for quality control related to NFT purchases. The third discloses techniques for... Read more →

Nielsen and CMT Watermarking Patent Applications

Today's Spotlight Applications address digital watermarking and steganography ("hidden writing"). Assigned to Nielsen, the first application discloses techniques for using steganographically-encoded time information as basis to establish a time offset. Assigned to Cmt Research (ZA), the second application discloses a digital watermarking techniques for embedding information in and extracting information... Read more →

Attestiv and Connect Health Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Attestiv, the first application discloses techniques for authenticating a digital media asset, and particularly to verifying the authenticity of digital image or video files which may have been redacted or otherwise... Read more →

Adobe and Nielsen Fingerprinting and Watermarking Patents

Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking (a form of steganography). Assigned to Adobe, the first patent addresses techniques for content creation, fingerprints, and watermarks. Assigned to Nielsen, the second patent addresses techniques for using steganographically-encoded time information as basis to establish a time offset, to... Read more →

Taiyuan University and NXP Watermarking Patents

Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Taiyuan University of Technology (CN), the first of today's patents addresses techniques for embedding spread spectrum watermark into images with self-adaptive embedding strength. Assigned to NXP (NL), the second patent addresses techniques for watermarking an audio signal with spatial information.... Read more →

Nielsen Watermarking and Audible Fingerpringing Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to The Nielsen Company, the first application discloses techniques for dynamic watermarking of media based on transport-stream metadata. Assigned to Audible Magic, the second application discloses techniques for an aggregated... Read more →

8eo and IBM Blockchain and Rights Management Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents continue the theme of blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to 8eo, the first patent addresses techniques for content management across a multi-party conference system. Assigned to IBM, the second patent... Read more →

Google and Apple Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Google, the first patent addresses techniques for detecting abusive stereoscopic videos by generating fingerprints for multiple portions of a video frame. Assigned to Apple, the second patent addresses techniques for recognizing... Read more →

Crystal Computing and Nielsen Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued on Tuesdays by the USPTO. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned To Crystal Computing, the first patent addresses techniques for synchronizing metadata with audiovisual content. Assigned to The Nielsen Company, the second patent addresses techniques for video fingerprinting based on Fourier transform of... Read more →

Sony and IBM DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Sony, the first application discloses techniques for the transport and acquisition of DRM-related information. Assigned to IBM, the second application discloses techniques for video composition by... Read more →