Managing Rights Management

Accenture Quantum and Rearden Ventures Smart Contract Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Accenture, the first application discloses techniques for quantum information interception prevention. Assigned to Rearden Ventures, the second application discloses techniques for smart prompts, AI-based digital representative, and multi-object steganographic encryption. 20220014364,... Read more →

ATT and Digimarc Watermarking Patent Applications

Digital watermarking and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to AT&T the first application discloses techniques for inserting a digital watermark in a signal. Assigned to Digimarc, the second applications discloses techniques for advanced image signal processing technology including encoded signals and digital watermarking.... Read more →

Intertrust and Verizon Blockchain and Watermarking Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Intertrust, the first application discloses techniques for augmenting content with watermarks including embodiments entailing blockchains. Assigned to Verizon, the second application discloses content consumption measurement for digital media using a blockchain.... 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 →

Two ANT Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. The first of today's patents addresses techniques for reading data based on plurality of blockchain networks. The second patent addresses techniques for identifying copyrighted material using embedded copyright information. 11,086,849, "Methods and systems... 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 and Nuance Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published in Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to The Nielsen Company, the first application discloses techniques for multiple scrambled layers for audio watermarking. Assigned to Nuance, the second application discloses techniques for watermarking of synthetic speech. 20210043217, "Multiple... Read more →

Saturn Watermarking and Idemia 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 Saturn, the first of today's applications discloses techniques for reliably generating and transmitting viewing information with respect to contents received via a communication route other than... Read more →

Nielsen Watermarking and QRS Technologies 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 Nielsen, the first patent addresses techniques for optimizing reference signature matching using watermark matching. Assigned to QRS Music Technologies, the second patent addresses techniques for generating a musical... Read more →

Ripple Labs and Alibaba Blockchain and Rights Management Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern the theme of blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Ripple Labs, the first patent addresses techniques for verifying sequence of instructions of software. Assigned to Alibaba, the second patent... Read more →