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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2020

Filed:

Oct. 31, 2007
Applicants:

Kenneth L. Levy, Stevenson, WA (US);

Geoffrey B. Rhoads, West Linn, OR (US);

Inventors:

Kenneth L. Levy, Stevenson, WA (US);

Geoffrey B. Rhoads, West Linn, OR (US);

Assignee:

Digimarc Corporation, Beaverton, OR (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/683 (2019.01); G06Q 20/12 (2012.01); G06F 21/16 (2013.01); G06F 21/10 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/16 (2013.01); G06F 16/683 (2019.01); G06F 21/10 (2013.01); G06Q 20/1235 (2013.01); G06Q 2220/10 (2013.01); G06Q 2220/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

Media objects are transformed into active, connected objects via identifiers embedded into them or their containers. A decoding process extracts the identifier from a media object and possibly additional context information and forwards it to a server. The server, in turn, maps the identifier to an action, such as returning metadata, re-directing the request to one or more other servers, requesting information from another server to identify the media object, etc. The linking process applies to broadcast objects as well as objects transmitted over networks in streaming and compressed file formats.


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