Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Enhanced metadata and content delivery using watermarks
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Application No.: US15680873Application Date: 2017-08-18
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Publication No.: US10178443B2Publication Date: 2019-01-08
- Inventor: Rade Petrovic , Jian Zhao , Joseph M. Winograd
- Applicant: Verance Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: Verance Corporation
- Current Assignee: Verance Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agency: Perkins Coie LLP
- Agent Donald L. Wenskay
- Main IPC: H04N21/4722
- IPC: H04N21/4722 ; H04N19/65 ; H04N21/84 ; H04N19/467 ; H04N21/235 ; H04N21/462 ; H04N21/2187 ; H04N21/2389 ; H04N21/81 ; H04N21/8358 ; H04N21/858

Abstract:
Methods, systems and devices enable enhanced delivery of metadata, as well as auxiliary programs and services associated with a primary content. In one method, a primary content with pre-existing watermarks is received at a content distributor device. The pre-existing watermark include specific fields that allow retrieval of a first metadata. The values and boundary locations of the symbols of the pre-existing watermark messages are determined, and symbols of a new watermark message are embedded in the primary content to render the pre-existing watermarks undetectable. The new watermark message includes symbol values that different from those in the pre-existing watermark messages and enable retrieval of a second metadata. Upon transmission of the primary content to a client device, detection of the new watermark message, and initiation of a request by the client device, access to the first or the metadata, as well as associated programs or services, are enabled.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170374434A1 ENHANCED METADATA AND CONTENT DELIVERY USING WATERMARKS Public/Granted day:2017-12-28
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