Managing Rights Management

Two DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to General Instrument, the first application discloses techniques for trading unused digital rights. The second application discloses techniques for identity management in wireless devices, no assignee given.

Intertrust and Microsoft DRM Patents

On Tuedays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Intertrust, the first patent addresses aspects of a trusted clearinghouse infrastructure for secure electronic commerce. Assigned to Microsoft, the second patent addresses a digital rights management system protecting consumer privacy.

Samsung and Microsoft DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Samsung, the first application dislcloses techniques for managing digital rights through hooking a kernel native API. Assigned to Microsoft, the second application discloses a file system is configured for use with files protected by digital rights management (DRM) content controls.

NetApp and Intel Digital Fingerprinting Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to NetApp, the first patent addresses techniques for eliminating duplicate data by generating data fingerprints using adaptive fixed-length window. Assigned to Intel, the second patent addresses cluster-based fingerprinting algorithms.

NTT And Arjowiggins Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to NTT (JP), the first application discloses techniques for embedding and detecting an electronic watermark. Assigned to Arjowiggins Security (FR), the second application discloses sectional documents comprising a structure equipped with a watermark or pseudo-watermark.

ConDel and General Instrument DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Apparently assigned to Condel Technologies (TW), the first patent presents techniques for locally generating a license and activating a DRM agent. Assigned to General Instrument, the second patent presents techniques for provisioning a device to access digital rights management (DRM) services in a universal plug and play (UPnP) network.

Sony and Ericsson DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Sony (JP), the first application discloses techniques for Digital Rights Management (DRM) domain recommendation and selection based on a user's social graphs. Assigned to Ericsson, the second application discloses a method and a device for protecting private content.

Sony and Tracer Detection Watermarking Patents

On Tuedays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Sony (JP), the first patent addresses information capable of tracing a content distribution route, such as a user ID of a content destination, a content ID, a content provider ID, and a service provider ID, is superimposed on the content as additional information for digital watermarking or steganography before delivering the content. Assigned to Tracer Detection Technology Corp., the second patent addresses techniques for the production and labeling of objects in a manner suitable for the prevention and detection of counterfeiting.

IBM and Dolby Fingerprinting Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to IBM, the first application discloses techniques for verifying licenses of musical recordings with multiple soundtracks. Assigned to Dolby, the second application discloses techniques for associating information with a portion of media content.

Sony and SanDisk DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Sony, the first patent addresses techniques for video upscaling. Assigned to SanDisk, the second patent addresses techniques for providing access to files based on user identity.

Google Watermarking and Zeitera Fingerprinting Patent Applications

On Thursdays the UPSTO publishes new pending patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications concern digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned, to Google, the first application discloses techniques for image watermarking. Assigned to Zeitera, the second application discloses a distributed and tiered architecture for content search and content monitoring that makes use of digital fingerprinting.

Adobe and Microsoft Software Fingerprinting Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Adobe, the first patent addresses techniques for identifying and tracking potential property rights in software products. Assigned to Microsoft,the second patent addresses techniques for dynamic software fingerprinting.

Samsung and Motorola Mobility DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Samsung (KR), the first application discloses techniques for providing a DRM service that includes a Media Presentation Description (MPD) information configurer for determining a required DRM system. Assigned to Motorola Mobility, the second application discloses techniques for DRM that allow various forms of authorization, with each form of authorization being dependent upon an action taken on the digital content.

Adobe and IBM DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Adobe, the first patent concerns techniques for the dynamic enabling of functionality in electronic document readers. Assigned to IBM, the second patent concerns universal DRM support for devices.

Sharp Watermarking and IBM Fingerprinting Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Today's Sportlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingeprinting. Assigned to Sharp (JP), the first application discloses image processing techniques including watermarking. Assigned to IBM, the second application discloses techniques for locating documents for providing data leakage prevention within an information security management system

41st Parameter Fingerprinting and Konica Minolta Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to The 41st Parameter, Inc, the first patent addresses techniques for detecting session tampering and fraud prevention. Assigned to Konica Minolta, the second patent addresses a method of embedding data in original image with reduced effect on visibility of original image.

Verizon and TWC DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management.  Assigned to Verizon, the first application discloses rights-enabled web browser playback for a video provisioning system. Apparently assigned to Time Warner Cable, the second application discloses techniuqes for network content download and recording.

Motorola Solutions and Novell DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Motorola Solutions, the first patent concerns a content access rights management system which embeds restricted metadata into a picture. Assigned to Novell, the second patent concerns techniques for vending digital content.

NTT and Verance Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspect of digital watermarking. Assigned to Nippon Telegraph And Telephone (JP), the first application discoses techniques for electronic watermark embedding and detecting. Assigned to Verance, the second application discloses techniques for secure and efficient content screening in a networked environment. (One of three Verance applications published today, the other two are 20120072730 and 20120072729.

Intertrust Watermarking and IBM Fingerprinting Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Intertrust, the first patent addresses techniques for watermarking software and other media. Assigned to IBM, the second patent addresses techniques for removing encrypted files unassociated with a user key from an archive.

Fraunhofer and Thomson Digital Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking. Apparently assigned to Fraunhofer (DE), the first application discloses techniques for introducing information into a data stream and method and apparatus for encoding an audio signal. Apparently assigned to Thomson, the second application discloses techniques for watermarking free view video with blind watermark detection.

Two IBM Digital Fingerprinting Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and both are assigned to IBM. The first patent addresses techniques for data redundancy elimination at the block level. The second patent addresses techniques for guaranteeing hypertext link integrity.

Lockheed Martin Fingerprinting and Imation Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Lockheed Martin, the first application discloses an encryption technique that creates a unique encryption key or fingerprint based on unique physical and electrical characteristics of a target electronic assembly to be protected. Assigned to Imation, the second application discloses a method of providing transactions employing advertising based verification.

RealNetworks and Sprint DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to RealNetworks, the first patent addresses techniques for a media service delivery system providing conditional access to media content from various client devices. Assigned to Sprint, the second patent concerns techniques for controlling playout of media in wireless network.

Two Conditional Access Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of conditional access systems. Assigned jointly to Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. (TW) and to Ambit Microsystems (CN), the first application discloses techniques for providing conditional access in broadcasting network. Assigned to the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (KR), the second application discloses a conditional access system and method of using conditional access image.

Two Digimarc Digital Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents are assigned to Digimarc and both concern aspects of digital watermarking. The first patent concerns watermark payload encryption for media including multiple watermarks. The second patent concerns techniques for using embedded data with file sharing.

IBM and Digimarc Digital Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to IBM, the first application discloses techniques including watermarking for secure information sharing with untrusted recipients. Apparently assigned to Digimarc, the second application discloses techniques for watermarking different areas of digital images with different intensities.

Sprint and Nokia DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Sprint, the first patent concerns techniques for controlling playout of media.  Assigned to Nokia, the second patent concerns techniques for distributing service information and digital rights for broadcast data.

Two Digital Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thurdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Qualcomm, the first application discloses techniques for identifying visual media content captured by camera-enabled mobile device. The second application discloses techniques for embedding watermarks in a compressed stream, no assignee given.

Panasonic and Microsoft DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Panasonic, the first patent concerns a content playback device that uses DRM techniques.  Assigned to Microsoft, the second patent concerns techniques for file system operation interaction with digital rights management.