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US 2012/0158550 A1Published application
Music methods and systems
OwnerGeoffrey B. Rhoadsinventor
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Abstract
The disclosure details a variety of applications of steganographic encoding and decoding of auxiliary information in physical and media objects. In particular, digital watermarks embedded in media content are used to initiate automated transactions associated with the content and to link creative content with information or transactions.
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A method comprising:
- encoding an object with a first information signal, wherein the first information signal includes information content and permits rapid decoding;
- and
- encoding the object with a second information signal, wherein the second information signal conveys more information content than the first information signal, requiring more time to decode;
- wherein the first and second information signals comprise at least one watermark embedded in the digital object.
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A media object clearinghouse system comprising:
- a media object clearinghouse configured to transfer a media object electronically;
- a watermark decoder in communication with a media object receiver to receive a media object signal and configured to decode a watermark from the media object signal identifying the media object;
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- a transmitter in communication with the decoder and configured to receive a media object identifier derived from the watermark and to transmit the media object identifier and a user identifier to the clearinghouse;
- wherein the media object clearinghouse is configured to identify the media object based on the media object identifier and the user based on the user identifier and electronically transfer a copy of the media object to a predetermined location associated with the user.
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A method for linking a media object with additional information or actions related to the media object, the method comprising:
- decoding a watermark from a media object;
- deriving a master global address from the watermark;
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- connecting to a remote device and retrieving additional information associated with the media object based on the master global address.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.