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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2007
J. Scott Carr, Carlisle, MA (US);
Bruce L. Davis, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Geoffrey B. Rhoads, West Linn, OR (US);
J. Scott Carr, Carlisle, MA (US);
Bruce L. Davis, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Geoffrey B. Rhoads, West Linn, OR (US);
Digimarc Corporation, Beaverton, OR (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates generally to steganography, digital watermarking and data hiding. In one embodiment a method is provided including: processing data representing content; analyzing the data to determine whether a plural-bit identifier is steganographically encoded therein, the plural-bit identifier encoded in the data through modifications to the data, the modifications steganographically hiding the presence of the plural-bit identifier; and upon detection of the plural-bit identifier, redundantly carrying out an action while attempting to conceal the action from one or more users of the content. Of course, other embodiments are described and claimed as well.