US 2014/0279296 A1Published application

Referred sale system

AssigneeVerance Corporation

InventorsRade Petrovic, Joseph M. Winograd, Jian Zhao, Dean Angelico

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Abstract

Methods, devices, systems and computer program products use watermarks to allow a user to explore to obtain desired content and related items. One device includes an extended payload (EP) watermark extractor coupled to an audio input and to an enhanced response coordinator (ERC). The device also includes a copy control information (CCI) watermark detector coupled to the audio input and coupled to a copy management compliance logic component. The ERC is further coupled to the EP extractor and to a communication component. The device also includes a referred sale logic component coupled to the ERC to receive referral information that is indicative of one or more alternative options. The device further includes a digital service provider (DSP) client component coupled to the referred sale logic and also coupled to the communication component that allows the DSP client to communicate with DSPs and to receive one of the alternative options.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A media handling device, comprising:

an extended payload watermark extractor coupled to an audio input, the audio input providing digital samples representing an audio portion of a content, the extended payload watermark extractor further coupled to an enhanced response coordinator (ERC);
a copy control information (CCI) watermark detector coupled to the audio input, the CCI watermark detector further coupled to a copy management compliance logic component that determines, based on extracted CCI watermark values provided to the copy management compliance logic component, whether or not access rights to the content is restricted;
the ERC coupled to the extended payload extractor to receive extended payload information from the extended payload extractor, the ERC further coupled to a communication component that allows the ERC to communicate with one or more databases;
a referred sale logic component coupled to the ERC to receive referral information from the ERC, the referral information indicative of one or more alternative options associated with the content having restricted access rights;
and
a digital service provider (DSP) client component coupled to the referred sale logic to receive a request for at the least one of the one or more alternative options, the request provided by the referred sales logic to the DSP client component, the DSP client component further coupled to the communication component that allows the DSP client to communicate with one or more digital service providers and to receive the at least one of the one or more alternative options.

3 more elements

A method for facilitating usage of a content handling device, the method comprising:

extracting at least one copy control watermark using a copy control information (CCI) watermark detector from an audio portion of a content, the at least one copy control watermark indicating that access rights to the content is restricted;
using an extended payload watermark extractor to extract at least one extended payload watermark from the content and to generate extended payload information;
communicating the extended payload information to an enhanced response coordinator component of the media handling device for subsequent transmission to one or more databases;
receiving from the one or more databases referral information regarding one or more alternative options to the content having restricted access rights at the enhanced response coordinator component;
communicating the referral information to a referred sale logic component of the media handling device;
presenting an indication of availability of the one or more alternative options on a user interface;
receiving a request indicative of a selection of the one or more presented alternative options;
communicating the request to a digital service provider client component of the media handling device for transmission to one or more digital service providers;
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receiving the one or more alternative options from the one or more digital service providers.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/213,365Filed 14 Mar 2014
Priority: 15 Mar 2013
Published: 18 Sep 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G06Q 30/018
Commerce: certifying business or products
H04N 21/8355
Generation of protective data, e.g. certificates: involving usage data, e.g. number of copies or viewings allowed
H04N 21/8358
Generation of protective data, e.g. certificates: involving watermark
G06Q
Information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial