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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:
May. 15, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2000
Geoffrey B. Rhoads, West Linn, OR (US);
Bruce L. Davis, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
William C. Hein, Iii, Glenmoore, PA (US);
Joshua A. Rosenthol, Tulsa, OK (US);
Brian T. Macintosh, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Kenneth L. Levy, Stevenson, WA (US);
Geoffrey B. Rhoads, West Linn, OR (US);
Bruce L. Davis, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
William C. Hein, III, Glenmoore, PA (US);
Joshua A. Rosenthol, Tulsa, OK (US);
Brian T. MacIntosh, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Kenneth L. Levy, Stevenson, WA (US);
Digimarc Corporation, Beaverton, OR (US);
Abstract
A machine readable code (e.g., digital watermark or bar code) conveyed with objects is used in establishing links to associated electronic resources, such as web pages. The object can be physical (e.g., a magazine page) or electronic (e.g., music data). The associated electronic resource can be a web site from which goods or services (e.g., music) may be offered for sale. In some embodiments, when a code is sensed from one object, the system can foresee other object codes that may soon be sensed, and can anticipatorily provide address information for their respectively associated electronic resources. In another embodiment, the microphone of a cell phone is used to listen to ambient audio. A watermark in the audio is decoded and its payload is used to link to, or provide, related information. A variety of other concepts are also detailed, such as permitting the free distribution of low fidelity music as marketing agents for higher fidelity versions that are available for sale.