Contentguard Holdings, Inc.

Xerox Corporation

Contentgaurd Holdings, Inc.

Contenaguard Holdings, Inc.

Steve Atsushi Okamoto

Mark Jeffrey Stefik

Glen W Petrie

Nicholas H Briggs

Xin Wang

Russell Robert Lear

Nancy Lynn Ishigo

David P Nesbitt

Jennifer D Thomas

Sang W Kim

A trusted rendering system for use in a system for controlling the distribution and use of digital works. A trusted rendering system facilitates the protection of rendered digital works which have been rendered on a system which controls the distribution and use of digital works through the use of dynamically generated watermark information that is embedded in the rendered output. The watermark data typically provides information relating to the owner of the digital work, the rights associated with the rendered copy of the digital work and when and where the digital work was rendered. This information will typically aid in deterring or preventing unauthorized copying of the rendered work to be made. The system for controlling distribution and use of digital works provides for attaching persistent usage rights to a digital work. Digital works are transferred between repositories which are used to request and grant access to digital works. Such repositories are also coupled to credit servers which provide for payment of any fees incurred as a result of accessing a digital work.

System for controlling the distribution and use of rendered digital works through watermarking

Method, apparatus, and media for embedding a watermark in digital content. An exemplary method comprises receiving digital content in an encrypted form, receiving a decryption key associated with the digital content, receiving permitted use information specifying conditions under which the digital content is permitted to be rendered and indicating that a watermark is to be embedded in a rendered copy of the digital content, determining whether the conditions are satisfied, and rendering the digital content if the conditions are satisfied based on the determining, the rendering including generating a watermark based on the permitted use information and creating a rendered copy of the digital content having the watermark embedded therein.

A multi-stage watermarking system and process that creates a watermark specification which describes how to generate a watermark, generates a template specification which describes how to merge the watermark into a target document, generates the watermark based on the watermark specification, and merges the watermark into the target document based on the template specification to provide a watermarked document.

Multi-stage watermarking process and system

Temporary states are used transitionally in run-time situations and are unknown to the object database. A temporary state is created if, when an object is performing a requested event, interim work needs to be performed before the object reaches a permanent destination state. Use of a temporary state is transparent to the caller of the requested event.

State based object transition control and nested locking

Temporary states are used transitionally in run-time situations and are unknown to the object database. A temporary state is created if, when an object is performing a requested event, interim work needs to be performed before the object reaches a permanent destination state. Use of a temporary state is transparent to the caller of the requested event. Within a single flow of control, an unlimited number of nested locks may be acquired. A request to unlock an object will only truly unlock the object if the unlock requester is at the highest level of locking. For recursive or embedded functions, no knowledge of the previous locking condition is necessary. Attribute-based locking provides a mechanism for allowing only certain members of the system to lock an object for writing while the object is in a predetermined state. However, any thread may obtain a read lock on an object in order to examine its attributes. This may be expanded to state that the system may restrict locking of an object or entity based upon any attribute in the database or upon any combination or logical expression of these attributes.

State-based object transition control and nested locking

System for controlling the distribution and use of rendered digital works through watermaking

State-based object transition control and attribute-based locking

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Steve Atsushi Okamoto