Managing Rights Management

ATT and DISH Blockchain Patent Applications

Smart contracts (blockchains, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to AT&T, the first application discloses techniques for blockchain-based transactions of digital content. Assigned to DISH Wireless, the second application discloses techniques for monitoring services provided by a service provider to a... Read more →

Ericsson and Ting Tech Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Ericsson (SE), the first of today's applications discloses techniques for collaborative task offloading automation in smart containers. Assigned to Ting Tech, the second application discloses techniques for interactively broadcasting value via... Read more →

Factom and Taliware Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Factom, the first of today's Spotlight Patents addresses techniques for smart contracts in blockchain environments. Assigned to Taliware, the second patent addresses techniques for passive authentication of an individual using an... Read more →

Eluvio and Bao Tran Blockchain and Rights Management Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Eluvio, the first patent addresses machine learning for a decentralized content fabric. Assigned to Bao Tran, the second patent addresses techniques... Read more →

AT&T and SonicWall 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 AT&T, the first patent addresses techniques for sharing timed fingerprint location information. Assigned to SonicWall, the second patent addresses techniques for image based spam blocking. 10,206,113, "Sharing timed fingerprint... Read more →

Sorenson Media and Veniam 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 Sorenson Media, the first of this week's patents addresses techniques for frequency capping for media content. Assigned to Veniam, the second patent addresses techniques for vehicular positioning using adaptive... Read more →

Axoni and GM Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications continue the theme of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Axoni, the first of today's applications discloses techniques for distributed privately subspaced blockchain data structures with secure access restriction... Read more →

IBM and Omnifone 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 IBM, the first patent addresses techniques for detecting usage of copyrighted video content using object recognition. Assigned to Omniphone (GB), the second patent addresses techniques for enabling digital... Read more →

Bragi and Orange DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Bragi (DE), the first application discloses an earpiece with Digital Rights Management. Assigned to Orange (FR), the second application discloses techniques for obtaining of access rights... Read more →

Geofeedia and CenturyLink DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Geofeedia, the first patent addresses techniques for targeted messaging, workflow management, and digital rights management for geofeeds. Assigned to CenturyLInk, the second patent addresses techniques for providing... Read more →