Managing Rights Management

Irdeto and Sirius XM Radio 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 Irdeto (NL), the first of today's applications addresses techniques for providing access to content using encryption keys and DRM clients. Assigned to Sirius XM Radio, the second application addresses techniques for content caching services in satellite and satellite/IP content delivery systems where metadata may include DRM information.

Qualcomm and Toshiba 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 Qualcomm, the first patent addresses countermeasures against audio/video content security domain crossing. Assigned to Toshiba (JP), the second patent addresses in part techniques for copyright protection.

Facebook and Enswers Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Facebook, the first application addresses techniques for managing silence in audio signal identification. Assigned to Enswers (KR), the second application addresses techniques that at least in part use digital fingerprinting for surveying broadcasting ratings.

Pulselocker and Konica Minolta 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 Pulselocker, the first patent addresses techniques for limiting access to data by process or computer function with stateless encryption. Assigned to Konica Minolta, the second patent addresses techniques for digital rights management for emails and attachments.

Apple and BrowsePlay 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 Apple, the first application discloses techniques for securing user data with DRM keys. Assigned to BrowsePlay, the second application discloses techniques for secure cross-platform video transmission.

Google Fingerprinting and Nielsen Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of  digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Google,the first patent addresses techniques involving fingerprinting for early detection of policy violating media.  Assigned to The Nielsen Company, the second patent addresses techniques for encoding a compressed media stream.

KAIST and Digimarc Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to KAIST (KR), the first application discloses techniques for three-dimensional mesh model watermarking method using segmentation. Assigned to Digimarc, the second application discloses techniques for rendering image content that include a digital watermark pattern at an essentially fixed scale, regardless of the size of screen on which the content is displayed.

Adobe and Gracenote 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 Adobe, the first patent addresses techniques for content creation and licensing control. Assigned to Gracenote, the second patent addresses techniques for generating and detecting a fingerprint functioning as a trigger marker in a multimedia signal.

Encryptics and Sony DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Encryptics, LLC, the first application discloses techniques for digital rights management of documents. Assigned to Sony, the second application discloses techniques for statutory license restricted digital media playback on portable devices.

Intel and Ericsson DRM Patents

Newly issued patents are published by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Intel, the first of today's patents addresses a digital rights management handler and related methods. Assigned to Ericsson (SE), the second patent addresses DRM plugins.

Globalive XMG Watermarking and Disney Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New patent applications are published on Thursdays. This week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Globalive XMG (CA), the first application disclose techniques for using watermarking in a broadcast AR [augmented reality] layer.  Assigned to Disney, the second application discloses techniques for the automated application of business rules using temporal metadata and content fingerprinting.

Xerox and Nielsen 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 Xerox, the first patent addresses techniques for 3D printer steganography. Assigned to Nielsen, the second patent addresses techniques for down-mixing compensation for audio watermarking.

Gracenote and Dolby Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Both of this week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Gracenote, the first application discloses a computing system with content-characteristic-based trigger feature. Assigned to Dolby, the second application discloses techniques for acquisition, recovery, and matching of unique information from file-based media for automated file detection.

Samsung and Kaspersky DRM Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays including holidays such as the 4th of July. Both of this week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Samsung, the first patent addresses techniques for transmitting and receiving message for downloadable CAS [Conditional Access System] or DRM in MMT. Assigned to Kaspersky Labs (RU), the second patent addresses techniques for controlling opening of files by vulnerable applications.

eBay and Adobe DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to eBay, the first application discloses techniques for digital rights and integrity management in three-dimensional (3D) printing. Assigned to Adobe, the second application discloses techniques for digital rights management using geographic and temporal traits.

Websense Fingerprinting and Digimarc 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 Websense, the first patent addresses techniques for efficient detection of fingerprinted data and information. Assigned to Digimarc, the second patents addresses techniques for detecting conflicts between multiple different encoded signals within imagery.

Two Le Shi Watermaking Patent Applications

The USPTO publishes new pending patent applications on Thursdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of watermarking and both are assigned to Le Shi Internet Information & Technology Corp (CN) and Le Holdings (CN). The first application discloses techniques for displaying a watermark applied to a player terminal. The second application discloses techniques for controlling video playing.

Facebook and Google Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued on Tuesdays by the USPTO. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Facebook, the first patent addresses techniques for managing silence in audio signal identification. Assigned to Google, the second patent addresses techniques for adding pitch shift resistance to an audio fingerprint.

LG and Disney Digital Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to LG Electronics (KR), the first application discloses techniques for providing a mobile broadcast service in a TV receiver. Assigned to Disney, the second application discloses technique for creating a temporal-based dynamic watermark.

Irdeto Watermarking and Enswers Fingerprinting Patents

The USPTO issues new patents on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Irdeto (NL), the first patent addresses techniques for providing watermarked content to multiple end user devices. Assigned to Enswers (KR), the second patent addresses techniques for surveying broadcasting ratings.

Unisys Watermarking and Friend of Media Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. This week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of steganography (in this case digital watermarking) and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Unisys, the first application discloses techniques for embedding a data message in a carrier object using steganography. Assigned to Friend of Media Limited, the second application discloses techniques for security and/or tracing video media-content.

Oracle and Arris 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 Oracle, the first patent addresses service level digital rights management support in a multi-content aggregation and delivery system. Assigned to Arris Enterprises, the second patent addresses techniques for a Digital Rights Management (DRM) system that reduces time for a move transaction using DTCP-IP when a copy is moved back or checked back in to an originating Personal Video Recorder (PVR).

Comcast and Konica Minolta 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 Comcast, the first application discloses an adaptive rights management system. Assigned to Konica Minolta (JP), the second application discloses a digital rights management system providing event notifications for user actions based on access control rules.

Boeing and Amazon Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are published by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Boeing, the first patent addresses techniques for generating a fingerprint for verification of a reference object and is one of the few applications of digital fingerprinting I've seen in manufacturing. Assigned to Amazon, the second patent addresses techniques for identifying protected media files.

Gracenote Fingerprinting and Tautachrome Watermarking 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 Gracenote, the first of today's applications addresses techniques for media source identification. Assigned to Tautachrome, the second application addresses techniques for authentication and validation of smartphone imagery.

Wallrust and Amazon Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Wallrust, the first patent concerns techniques for identifying peers by their interpersonal relationships. Assigned to Amazon, the second patent concerns techniques for analyzing the security of applications.

AirWatch and Microsoft DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to [VMWare] AirWatch, the first application addresses techniques for applying rights management policies to protected files. Assigned to Microsoft, the second patent addresses techniques for using multiple content protection systems in a file.

Omnifone and Gula Consulting 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 Omnifone (GB), the first patent addresses techniques for enabling digital music content to be downloaded to and used on a portable wireless computing device. Assigned to Gula Consulting, the second patent addresses techniques for electronic media distribution.

NCR Watermarking and Dell Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. This week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to NCR, the first application discloses techniques for document geometric deformation watermarking and tracking. Assigned to Dell, the second application discloses techniques for image based spam blocking.

Intertrust and Ericsson 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 Intertrust, the first patent addresses techniques for trusted storage systems. Assigned to Ericsson (SE), the second patent addresses compression and decompression techniques for DRM license information delivery.