Unique watermarking for digital media
AssigneeSnowflake Solutions, Inc.
InventorsJesse Bickmore, Fletcher Lee, Alex Thurlow
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Abstract
Systems, methods and computer-readable media for uniquely identifying a digital medium by receiving a request for the digital medium, the request corresponding to a requestor, associating a unique identification with the requestor, encoding the digital medium based on the unique identification to provide a watermarked digital medium, the watermarked digital medium including a watermark that can be used to determine the unique identification, and providing the watermarked digital medium to the requestor.
Claims18
A computer-implemented method for uniquely identifying a digital medium, the method being executed by one or more processors and comprising:
- receiving, by the one or more processors, a request for the digital medium, the digital medium comprising a plurality of frames and the request corresponding to a requestor;
- associating, by the one or more processors, a unique identification with the requestor;
- encoding, by the one or more processors, at least a portion of the plurality of frames of the digital medium based on the unique identification to provide a watermarked digital medium, the watermarked digital medium comprising a watermark configured to be used to determine the unique identification and an intermittent change to one or more parameters of the watermark within at least the portion of the plurality of frames, the intermittent change comprises a variable location associated to a temporal pattern of display of the one or more parameters of the watermark and indicates the requestor, wherein the temporal pattern is associated with the watermark, the unique identification being determinable based on the temporal pattern and the temporal pattern comprises a plurality of changes to one or more parameters of the watermark;
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- providing, by the one or more processors, the watermarked digital medium to the requestor.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium coupled to one or more processors and having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations for uniquely identifying a digital medium, the operations comprising:
- receiving a request for the digital medium, the digital medium comprising a plurality of frames and the request corresponding to a requestor;
- associating a unique identification with the requestor;
- encoding at least a portion of the plurality of frames of the digital medium based on the unique identification to provide a watermarked digital medium, the watermarked digital medium comprising a watermark configured to be used to determine the unique identification and an intermittent change to one or more parameters of the watermark within at least the portion of the plurality of frames, the intermittent change comprises a variable location associated to a temporal pattern of display of the one or more parameters of the watermark and indicates the requestor, wherein the temporal pattern is associated with the watermark, the unique identification being determinable based on the temporal pattern and the temporal pattern comprises a plurality of changes to one or more parameters of the watermark;
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- providing the watermarked digital medium to the requestor.
A system, comprising:
- a computing device;
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- a non-transitory computer-readable storage device coupled to the computing device and having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations for uniquely identifying a digital medium, the operations comprising:
- receiving a request for the digital medium, the digital medium comprising a plurality of frames and the request corresponding to a requestor;
- associating a unique identification with the requestor;
- encoding at least a portion of the plurality of frames of the digital medium based on the unique identification to provide a watermarked digital medium, the watermarked digital medium comprising a watermark configured to be used to determine the unique identification and an intermittent change to one or more parameters of the watermark within at least the portion of the plurality of frames, the intermittent change comprises a variable location associated to a temporal pattern of display of the one or more parameters of the watermark and indicates the requestor, wherein the temporal pattern is associated with the watermark, the unique identification being determinable based on the temporal pattern and the temporal pattern comprises a plurality of changes to one or more parameters of the watermark;
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- providing the watermarked digital medium to the requestor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.