Managing Rights Management

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 →

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 →

Netflix Fingerprinting and Digimarc Watermarking Patents

New patents are published by the USPTO on Tuesdays. This week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Netflix, the first of this week's patents address techniques for identifying previously streamed portions of a media title to avoid repetitive playback. Assigned to Digimarc, the second... Read more →

DISH and Prescient Innovations Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. This week's Spotlight Applications continue the theme of blockchains (distributed ledgers, smart contracts) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to DISH, the first application discloses a content anti-piracy management system and method. Assigned to Prescient Innovations (CA), the second... Read more →

Philips and Datalogic IP Digital Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Philips (NL), the first patent addresses techniques for image recording and 3D information acquisition. Assigned to Datalogic IP Tech, the second patent addresses techniques for digital watermark localization... Read more →

Google Fingerprinting and Wistaria Trading Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. 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 Wistaria Trading LTD (BM) [Hi... Read more →

Google and Toshiba Digital Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Google, the first patent addresses techniques for secure session-based video watermarking for online media streaming. Assigned to Toshiba, the second patent addresses techniques for a generating unit that makes use of... Read more →

Nielsen Watermarking and Square 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 detecting watermark modifications. Assigned to Square, the second patent addresses techniques for processing transactions in offline mode. 10,366,466, "Detecting watermark modifications,"... Read more →

Tata and Verance Digital Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. This weeks Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Tata (IN), the first of this week's patents addresses techniques for embedding and extracting a watermark from a digital media. Assigned to Verance, the second patent addresses techniques for content... Read more →

Google Watermarking and Nielsen Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Google, the first of today's applications discloses techniques for key phrase detection with audio watermarking. Assigned to The Nielsen Company, the second application discloses techniques for... Read more →

MorphTrust Watermarking and Snell Fingerprinting Patent Applications.

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to MorphoTrust, the first application addresses techniques for digitally watermarking digital facial portraits. Assigned to Snell Advanced Media (GB), the second application addresses techniques for managing visual... Read more →

IBM Watermarking and Gracenote Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to IBM, the first of today's applications addresses techniques for increased security using dynamic watermarking. Assigned to Gracenote, the second application addresses techniques for media channel identification with multi-match detection... Read more →

Enswers Fingerprinting and NOA Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. This week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Enswers (KR), the first patent concerns an advertisement detection system and method based on fingerprints. Assigned to NOA, the second patent concerns techniques for redacting video for... Read more →

MorphoTrust Watermarking and CIsco 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 MorphoTrust USA, the first patent addresses a digital identification document including a digital biometric of the person and a digital watermark, the digital watermark encoding personally identifiable information... Read more →

Acxiom and Lex Persona Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Acxiom, the first application discloses techniques for applying fingerprinting/watermarking of consumer data, and analyzing "wild files" of consumer data to assign a guilt score for a... Read more →

Disney Watermarking and Boeing 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 Disney, the first patent addresses techniques for descriptive metadata extraction and linkage with editorial content. Assigned to Boeing, the second patent addresses techniques for generating a fingerprint... Read more →

Tencent Fingerprinting and Disney Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. This week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Tencent (CN), the first application discloses a video detection method and a server. Assigned to Disney, the second application discloses techniques for distributing supplemental content... Read more →

Gracenote Fingerprinting and NXP Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Gracenote, the first patent addresses techniques for media channel identification and action with multi-match detection based on reference stream comparison. Assigned to NXP (NL), the second patent addresses... Read more →

Dish Fingerprinting and Digital Voice Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Dish, the first patent addresses techniques for pre-distribution identification of broadcast television content using audio fingerprints. Assigned to Digital Voice Systems, the second patent addresses techniques for audio... Read more →

Digimarc Watermarking and Sorenson Media 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 Digimarc, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for adapting barcode reading camera systems for digital watermark decoding. Assigned to Sorenson Media, the second patent addresses techniques for... Read more →

IBM Watermarking and Google 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 IBM, the first patent addresses techniques for multiple source watermarking for surveillance. Assigned to Google, the second patent addresses techniques for detecting and suppressing voice queries. 10,169,838,... Read more →

Gracenote Fingerprinting and MorphoTrust Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Gracenote, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for detecting an event within interactive media. Assigned to MorphoTrust, the second addresses aspects of digital watermarking. 10,156,894, "Detecting an... 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 →

IBM and Nielsen Digital Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned ti IBM, the first patent addresses techniques for integrity verification of an audio-visual data stream. Assigned to The Nielsen Company, the second patent addresses techniques for performing audio watermarking and... 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 →

Two Nielson Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and both are assigned to The Nielson Company. The first application discloses techniques for measuring exposure to streaming media. The second application discloses techniques to perform audio watermarking and watermark detection and... Read more →

Intel Watermarking and Gracenote 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 Intel, the first patent addresses techniques for video watermarking. Assigned to Gracenote, the second patent addresses techniques for media channel identification with multi-match detection and disambiguation based on... Read more →