G06F 21/108
Transfer of content, software, digital rights or licenses
Official title: {Transfer of content, software, digital rights or licenses}
G06F21/108 (Transfer of content, software, digital rights or licenses) appears on 378 US grants and 527 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 378
- Published applications
- 527
- Assignees
- 239
- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 30 | 25 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Image forming apparatus that updates a transaction history of electronic data based on printing, information terminal, methods of controlling image forming apparatus and information terminal, storage medium, and image forming29 Sep 2026US 12,748,560 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Watermarking of AI-generated derivative works8 Sep 2026US 12,730,862 B2Music IP Holdings (MIH), Inc.
- Systems and methods for interoperable blockchains and cross-chain data message communication8 Sep 2026US 12,731,137 B2HSBC Software Development (Guangdong) Limited
- Data processing method based on blockchain, computer device, and storage medium25 Aug 2026US 12,719,965 B2Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
- Systems and methods for reliable authentication of jewelry and/or gemstones18 Aug 2026US 12,710,373 B2
- Watermarking of generative audio works1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300445 A1Music IP Holdings, Inc.
- Secure equipment access with screen monitoring enforcement1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300519 A1Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Global Decentralized Resource Distribution System Based on Time-Domain, Geo-Domain, and Multi-Dimensional Naming Architecture24 Sep 2026US 2026/0289021 A1
- Approval and controlled distribution of ai-generated content10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267942 A1Music IP Holdings, Inc.
- Ai-generated music derivative works3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259962 A1Music IP Holdings, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection3,563US 5,892,900 AIntertrust Technologies Corporation · 1999
- System for regulating access to and distributing content in a network1,380US 8,122,128 B22012
- Filters in license management system780US 5,260,999 ADigital Equipment Corporation · 1993
- Techniques for defining using and manipulating rights management data structures716US 5,920,861 AIntertrust Technologies Corporation · 1999
- Techniques for defining, using and manipulating rights management data structures600US 6,138,119 AIntertrust Technologies Corporation · 2000