Managing Rights Management

Mythical and Rypplzz Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Mythical, the first application discloses techniques for facilitating transactions of virtual items between users of an online game. Assigned to Rypplzz, the second application discloses techniques for augmented reality with precise... Read more →

nChain and ANT Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to nChain Holdings, the first patent addresses techniques for registry and automated management for blockchain-enforced smart contracts. Assigned to ANT, the second patent addresses techniques for blockchain-based dispute resolution. 11,120,437, "Registry and... Read more →

Ericsson and Tenet 3 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 application discloses techniques for managing cloud services using smart contracts and blockchains in a federation of cloud providers. Assgined to Tenet 3, LLC, the second application discloses... Read more →

Nokia and ANT Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Nokia (FI), the first patent addresses techniques for trusted computing. Assigned to Advanced New Technologies (KY), the second patent addresses techniques for verifying credibility of a consortium blockchain. 11,115,205, "Method and... Read more →

Aurign and Factom Blockchain and Smart Contracts Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Aurign, the first application discloses techniques for tracking authorship attribution and creating music publishing agreements from metadata. Assigned to Factom, the second application discloses techniques for digital or "smart" contracts executing... Read more →

Two ANT Blockchain-based Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Both assigined to Advanced New Technologies (ANT), the first patent addresses techniques for blockchain-based content verification. The second addresses techniques for identifying copyrighted material using copyright information embedded in electronic files. 11,108,568, "Blockchain-based... Read more →

Mark Coast and ANT Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, NFTs, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Apparently assigned to the inventor Mark Coast, the first application discloses techniques for performing agricultural transactions related to hemp. Assigned to ANT (KY), the second application discloses techniques for blockchain-based [legal] judgment... Read more →

Intertrust and Keyless Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Intertrust Technologies (Hi Dave), the first patent addresses techniques for trust and identity management. Assigned to Keyless (GB), the second patent addresses techniques for facilitating an authentication processing service. 11,102,008, "Trust... Read more →

ANT and USPS Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, NFTs, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Advanced New Technologies Co., (KY), the first application discloses techniques for issuing reward to work publisher on the basis of blockchain. Assigned to the USPS, the second of today's applications... Read more →

Beatdapp and CEA Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Beatdapp (CA), the first of today's Spotlight Patents addresses techniques for scalably tracking media playback using blockchain. Assigned to CEA (FR), the second patent addresses techniques for accessing anonymized data. 11,095,457,... Read more →

TuneGO and AiMi Blockchain and Music Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, NFTs, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to TuneGO, the first application discloses techniques for tokenized media content management. Assigned to AiMi, the second application discloses techniques for block-chain ledger based tracking of generated music content. 20210248214, "Tokenized... Read more →

Two ANT Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. The first of today's patents addresses techniques for reading data based on plurality of blockchain networks. The second patent addresses techniques for identifying copyrighted material using embedded copyright information. 11,086,849, "Methods and systems... Read more →

Two salesforce.com Smart Contract and Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications.The first of two salesforce.com applications discloses techniques for implementing consensus on read via a consensus on write smart contract trigger for a distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform. The second application discloses techniques for... Read more →

ITRI and Blockstream Blockhain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to ITRI (TW), the first patent addresses techniques for digital rights management system and digital rights protection. Assigned to Blockstream, the second patent addresses techniques for cryptographically concealing amounts and asset types... Read more →

InSolar and Park Smart Contract Patent Applications

Smart contracts( blockchains , distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Insolar Technologies (CH), the first application discloses techniques for domain-based smart contract execution governance in a DLT network. Assigned to Ki Eob Park (KR). the second application discloses techniques for... Read more →

Theta Labs and Camelot UK Bidco Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Theta Labs, the first patent addresses techniques for Non-fungible token (NFT) based digital rights management in a decentralized data delivery network. Assigned to Camelot UK Bidco (UK), the second patent addresses... Read more →

Cloudinary and Theta Labs Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Cloudinary (IL), the first of today's applications discloses techniques for providing authenticity and rights verification mechanism for media content and for its derived versions. Assigned to Theta Labs, the second application... Read more →

Infrared5 and IBM Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Seems to me, today's first patent perhaps confirms a return to the 90s idea of "superdistribution" originated by Ryoichi Mori and substantially elaborated by Victor Shear and the early Intertrust team. Superdistribution comprises... Read more →

IBM and nChain Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to IBM, the first application discloses techniques for a blockchain digital rights management streaming library. Assigned to nChain, the second application discloses techniques for blockchain implemented counting system and method for use... Read more →

Eluvio and HYPR Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Eluvio, the first patent addresses techniques for a decentralized content fabric (also see Eluvio's 11,063,865 which issued today). Assigned to HYPR, the second patent addresses techniques for federated identity management with... Read more →