Managing Rights Management

Thomson and Alcatel-Lucent Digital Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Digital watermarking continues to be a hot topic. Yesterday, two patents dealing with applications of digital watermarking were each issued to Thomson (7,630,511, 7,631,358) and to Alcatel-Lucent (7,630,512, 7,630,509). Issued to Thomson, the first of today's Spotlight Patents concerns techniques for improving the detection of watermarks in content that has undergone a lossy transformation. Assigned to Alcatel-Lucent, the second patent concerns techniques for performing recoverable video and image watermarking which survives block-based video and image compression.

LG Electronics and Microsoft DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of DRM. Assigned to LG Electronics (KR), the first application discloses techniques for sharing rights objects in digital rights management. Assigned to Microsoft, the second application discloses techniques for accessing protected content in a rights-management architecture.

Fingerprinting and Watermarking Patent Applications

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and watermarking.  Assigned to Landmark Digital Services, the first patent addresses techniques for robust and invariant audio pattern matching. Assigned to KDDI (JP), the second patent addresses techniques for digital watermarking and drift compensation.

Vendor, Organization Lists Updated

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Sun and Microsoft Fingerprinting Patent Applications

Happy Thanksgiving to all. On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Sun, the first application discloses techniques for media fingerprint indexing.  Assigned to Microsoft, the second application discloses techniques for verifying the integrity of remote data using digital fingerprinting.

IBM And Microsoft Rights Management Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern DRM. Assigned to IBM, the first patent addresses techniques for controlling access to wirelessly broadcast electronic works during playback. Assigned to Microsoft, the second patent addresses device registration within a digital rights management framework.

Mitsubishi Watermarking and Thomson Fingerprinting Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications concern digital watermarking and fingerprinting. Assigned to Mitsubishi Electric (JP), the first application discloses techniques for electronic watermarking embedding and detection. Assigned to Thomson, the second application discloses techniques for object oriented fingerprinting of digital videos.

Microsoft and IBM DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents.Today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of DRM. Assigned to Microsoft, the first patent concerns techniques for device registration within a DRM framework.  Assigned to IBM, the second patent concerns techniques for controlling access to wirelessly broadcast electronic works during playback.

Apple And NEC DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of DRM. Assigned to Apple, the first application discloses techniques for protecting audio and video on media playback devices. Assigned to NEC, the second application discloses protecting digital content on mobile devices.

Panasonic and Ericsson DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address various uses of encryption in DRM. Assigned to Panasonic the first patent concerns the use of encryption in copyright protection. Assigned to Ericsson, the second patent concerns encryption-based techniques for DRM.

Music Gate And Toshiba Digital Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking, which continues to be a hot topic. Assigned to Music Gate, the first patent addresses techniques for synthesizing electronic transparent audio watermarks. Assigned to Toshiba (JP), the second patent addresses techniques for generating electronic watermarks.

Two Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

 On Thurdays the USPTO publishers pending patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Express Digital Graphics, the first application discloses techniques for creative works registration and ownership determinations using digital fingerprints. Assigned to Yahoo, the second application discloses techniques for content fingerprinting for video and/or images.

Pantech and ContentGuard Digital Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issues new patents. Digital watermarking continues to be a hot topic. Assigned to Pantech Co. (KR), the first of today's Spotlight Patents concerns techniques for reorganizing wavelength division multiplexing network using dynamic watermarks. Assigned to ContentGuard Holdings, the second patent concerns techniques for multi-stage watermarking.

Hyrax Media And Microsoft DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today"s Spotlight Patent Applications concern aspects of DRM. Assigned to Hyrax Media (IL), the first application discloses techniques for legitimate lending and sharing of copyrighted content items over a network. Assigned to Microsoft, the second application discloses techniques using referral lists for tracking distributed content.

Canon and FujiFilm Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Digital watermarking continues to be a relatively "hot topic" for US issued patents (and for published patent applications).Assigned to Canon (JP), the first of today's Spotlight Patents concerns techniques for image processing using digital watermarks. Assigned, to FujiFilm, the second patent concerns a digital watermarking apparatus and storage medium.

Fingerprinting and Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Akamai, the first application discloses a dynamic multimedia fingerprinting system. The second application discloses techniques for digital watermarking.

Sony and Boeing Digital Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Sony (JP), the first patent concerns techniques for making wavelet watermarks resistant to affine transformations. Assigned to the Boeing company, the second patent concerns techniques for non-repudiation watermarking protection based on public and private keys

LG and Gateway Copy Protection Issued Patents

On Tuedays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of copy protection. Assigned to LG Electronics (KR), the first patent addresses techniques for encoding and using copy protection information in Blu-ray discs. Assigned to Gateway, the second patent concerns an optical jukebox with copy protection caching and caching copy protected data.

Siemens and Apple DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of DRM. Assigned to Siemens, the first application discloses techniques for managing user rights to electronic data objects by a person who acquires rights. Assigned to Apple, the second application discloses techniques for content protection information using family of quadratic multivariate polynomial map to generate a hash message authentication code.

LSI and Philips Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to LSI,the first patent concerns techniques for video watermarking and steganography ["hidden writing"] using simulated film grain. Assigned to Philips (NL), the second patent concerns for techniques for detecting a watermark in a digital signal.

Nvidia Watermarking and Digimarc Fingerprinting Issued Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight patents address aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Nvidia, the first patent concerns techniques for tracing distribution of video content with video watermarks. Assigned to Digimarc, the second patent concerns techniques for managing audio and other media.

Two Watermarking Patent Applications From Thomson

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications.Both of today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital watermarking and both are assigned to Thomson. The first application discloses techniques for watermarking an audio or video signal with watermark data using a spread spectrum. The second application discloses copy protection techniques for digital data stored on a medium.

TiVo and SmarDTV and Conditional Access Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents address conditional access systems used in video distribution. Assigned to TiVo, the first patent concerns conditional access techniques including those that prevent replay attacks. Assigned to SmarDTV SA, the second patent concerns techniques for selective multimedia encryption.

Rovi Watermarking and Philips Fingerprinting Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital watermarking and fingerprinting. Assigned to Rovi (nee Macrovision), the first application discloses techniques for watermarking and distributing content. Assigned to Philips (NL), the second application discloses techniques for selecting content from a stream of video or audio data.

Intertrust and Hitachi DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents deal with aspects of DRM. Assigned to Intertrust, the first patent concerns trusted and secure techniques for item delivery and execution.  Assigned to Hitachi, the second patent concerns techniques for limiting high quality digital video to devices that are capable of enforcing copy protection.

Wisteria Trading and Thomson Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thusdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Wisteria Trading (hi Scott), the first application discloses stenographic {"hidden writing" or watermarking) techniques for establishing the ownership of copyrighted multimedia. Assigned to Thomson, the second application discloses techniques for video watermarking.

Microsoft and IBM Digital Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Microsoft, the first patent addresses techniques for positionally encoded document image analysis and labeling. Assigned to IBM, the second patent addresses techniques for protecting images with an image watermark.

Thomson and Xerox Digital Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Thomson (FR), the first application discloses techniques for time-stamped watermarking. Assigned to Xerox, the second application discloses techniques for the generation of correlation-based digital watermarks using uniform-rosette color halftoning.

Three DRM-Related Patents From InterTrust Technologies

Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Three InterTrust DRM-related patents issued today, and rather than choosing two of them, today's Spotlight Patents note all three. The first concerns techniques for software self-checking. The second concerns techniques for using cryptography to protect secure computing environments. The third concerns techniques for managing the distribution of electronic content.

Protected Data Path and BitTorrent (P2P) Related DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of DRM. The first application discloses techniques for validating protected intra-system interconnects for DRM, no assignee given. The second application discloses techniques for digital rights protection in BitTorrent-like P2P systems, assigned to George Mason University.