Managing Rights Management

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.

ActiveVideo and TP Vision 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 ActiveVideo, the first application discloses techniques for secure bridging of third-party digital rights management to local security. Assigned to TP Vision (NL), the second application discloses techniques for a common interface host and common interface conditional access module.

Amazon Fingerprinting and TLS Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the PTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Amazon, the first patent addresses techniques for checking the integrity of a document by comparing a prior fingerprint of a document with a result of a fingerprint function applied to content of the document. Assigned to TLS, the second patent addresses techniques for inserting watermarks into audio signals that have speech-like properties.

Accenture and LVRT DRM Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays.  Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Accenture, the first application discloses techniques for 3-D printing protected by digital rights management. Assigned to LVRT, the second application discloses techniques for a database system for dynamic retrieval of nested data items [including copyrighted items and derivatives].

Intertrust and Sonic IP 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 of today's patents addresses techniques for a digital rights management engine that evaluates a license associated with protected content to determine if a requested access or other use of the content is authorized. Assigned to Sonic IP, the second patent addresses techniques for enabling playback of digital content using electronic tickets and ticket tokens representing grant of access rights.

AppNexus Watermarking and IPextreme Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. This weeks Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to AppNexus, the first application discloses techniques for pixel-based watermarking. Assigned to IPextreme, the second application discloses techniques for IP fingerprinting and IP DNA analysis.

IBM and Tata 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 IBM, the first patent addresses techniques for accessing an electronic asset using content augmentation. Assigned to Tata, the second patent addresses techniques for assigning access rights in enterprise digital rights management systems.

KPN and Sorenson Media Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to KPN(NL), the first application discloses techniques for fingerprint-based inter-destination media synchronization. Assigned to Sorenson Media, the second application discloses techniques for frequency capping for media content.

Fuji Xerox Watermarking and Abecassis 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 Fuji Xerox (JP), the first patent addresses techniques for deforming image elements of a watermark from intermediate print data. Assigned to Abecassis et al., the second patent addresses techniques for implementing a second screen trivia function.

EMC and Rovi Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

 New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. This week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to EMC, the first application discloses techniques for fingerprint based status detection in a distributed processing system. Assigned to Rovi, the second application discloses techniques for identifying a source of media content based on a log of fingerprints.

Konica Minolta and IBM 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 Konica Minolta, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for automating the management and interpretation of digital documents and their owners rights metadata for generating digital rights management protected contents.

ESL Laboratory and Viaccess Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to ESL Laboratory, the first application discloses techniques for protecting sensitive documents. Assigned to Viaccess (FR), the second application discloses techniques for identifying a content being displayed on a screen.

Nagravision and Verance Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking.  Assigned to Nagravision, the first patent addresses techniques for embedding watermarks in uncompressed video data.  Assigned to Verance, the second patent addresses techniques that facilitate accessing metadata associated with a primary audio visual content.

ETRI and ActiveVideo 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 the Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute (KR), the first application discloses techniques for controlling copying of broadcast content and a method for recording and playing back broadcast content. Assigned to ActiveVideo Networks, the second application discloses techniques for securely bridging third-party digital rights management to local security.

eBay and Intertrust 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 eBay, the first patent addresses techniques for digital rights and integrity management in three-dimensional (3D) printing. Assigned to Intertrust, the second patent addresses techniques for protecting electronic content from the time it is packaged through the time it is experienced by an end user

Sharp Watermarking and Facebook 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 Sharp (JP), the first application discloses techniques for decoding a content bitstream including receiving a respective watermark associated with different portions of said content bitstream. Assigned to Facebook, the second application discloses techniques for detecting commercials based on audio fingerprinting.

Intertrust and Microsoft 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 of today's patents concerns techniques for governing derived electronic resources.  Assigned to Microsoft, the second patent concerns techniques for using policies for digital rights management that enable distribution of full-function versions of applications that, while fully functional, have functions limited by an associated policy.