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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2007
Applicants:
Mustafa Kesal, Urbana, IL (US);
Mehmet Kivanc Mihcak, Redwood, WA (US);
Ramarathnam Venkatesan, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Mustafa Kesal, Urbana, IL (US);
Mehmet Kivanc Mihcak, Redwood, WA (US);
Ramarathnam Venkatesan, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04K 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An implementation is described herein facilitates certification of goods and/or identifications of the source of such goods. At least one implementation, described herein, embeds a watermark into a relatively small amount of data in a deterministic manner. This abstract itself is not intended to limit the scope of this patent. The scope of the present invention is pointed out in the appending claims.