Rules Driven Pan ID Metadata Routing System and Network

    公开(公告)号:US20070208711A1

    公开(公告)日:2007-09-06

    申请号:US11614947

    申请日:2006-12-21

    IPC分类号: G06F17/30

    摘要: A method of associating a content object with metadata uses a combination of a content identifier and a bounding identifier to enable handling of disparate sets of content identifiers for content objects with potentially conflicting content identifiers. The method receives a content identifier for a content object from among a set of content identifiers. It provides a unique bounding identifier for the set of content identifiers. This unique bounding identifier is used in combination with the content identifier to form a globally unique identifier for the content object. This globally unique identifier is associated with a metadata source, which enables routing of a user to the metadata source. Another novel method addresses content objects with two or more content identifiers, potentially referencing different metadata sources. This method registers different globally unique identifiers for a content object. These globally unique identifiers each comprise a content identifier provided with the content object and a bounding identifier identifying a set of content identifiers of which the content identifier is a member. For each of the globally unique identifiers, information is maintained about a metadata source. The method receives a first content identifier for the content object, and uses a bounding identifier associated with the set of the first content identifier to determine the globally unique identifier for the first content identifier. The user is routed to the metadata source associated with globally unique identifier. This document describes a novel system that enables multiple identity providers (ID Providers) to register and use the system. The ID Provider registers with a metadata directory system, receives a unique bounding identifier, and uses this bounding ID (e.g., an ID provider ID) with subsequent interactions with the metadata directory system. Separately, metadata source providers register metadata sources with the metadata directory system. This enables many different participants to associate content objects with metadata sources using one or more identify providers. Examples of metadata source providers include content providers, like content owners or retailers that have the flexibility of working with different ID providers to associate content objects with metadata. Both content providers and ID providers can register and use the system. The metadata source is the system or device that provides the metadata, like a web site. The directory system uses an identifier for the metadata source, which enables it to maintain an association between a content object and its corresponding metadata source. For example, in some embodiments, a URL serves to identify the location of the source. The Content Metadata Directory Services (CMDS) is a global trusted directory service that connects consumers of identified content to content-provider authorized and managed metadata databases and other digital resources. It includes mostly links to metadata, forms globally unique IDs based upon overlapping content identifiers and unique bounding identifiers, enables multiple content identifiers within a content object, and enables multiple content identity technology providers, even when they are using different technology.

    Methods for using wireless phones having optical capabilities
    4.
    发明申请
    Methods for using wireless phones having optical capabilities 有权
    使用具有光学能力的无线电话的方法

    公开(公告)号:US20050213790A1

    公开(公告)日:2005-09-29

    申请号:US11132031

    申请日:2005-05-17

    摘要: A wireless phone is equipped with a 2D optical sensor, enabling a variety of applications. For example, such a phone may also be provided with a digital watermark decoder, permitting decoding of steganographic data on imaged objects. Movement of a phone may be inferred by sensing movement of an imaged pattern across the optical sensor's field of view, allowing use of the phone as a gestural input device through which a user can signal instructions to a computer-based process. A variety of other arrangements by which electronic devices can interact with the physical world are also detailed, e.g., involving sensing and responding to digital watermarks, bar codes, RFIDs, etc.

    摘要翻译: 无线电话配备了2D光学传感器,可实现各种应用。 例如,这样的电话还可以设置有数字水印解码器,允许对成像对象上的隐写数据进行解码。 可以通过感测成像图案在光学传感器的视场中的移动来推断电话的移动,从而允许使用电话作为手势输入设备,用户可以通过该手势将指令信号发送到基于计算机的进程。 电子设备可以与物理世界交互的各种其他布置也是详细的,例如涉及感测和响应数字水印,条形码,RFID等。

    Collateral data combined with user characteristics to select web site
    8.
    发明申请
    Collateral data combined with user characteristics to select web site 有权
    抵押资料结合用户特征选择网站

    公开(公告)号:US20050192933A1

    公开(公告)日:2005-09-01

    申请号:US11058917

    申请日:2005-02-15

    IPC分类号: G06F17/30 G06T1/00

    摘要: A system where collateral information in a file or image is used together with information concerning a particular user's characteristics to direct a user to a particular web site. A user is direct to a web site and presented with information based both upon the original collateral information and information from the data base of user's characteristics. In one embodiment, a file or data stream includes collateral data that identifies the URL of a central web site. When a file containing the collateral data is transferred to a browser, the central web site is accessed and it interrogates a data base containing various information. The output of the data base search is another URL that directs the browser that received the original collateral data to another web site which then sends information to the user. In an alternate embodiment, a user uses a handheld digital camera to gather information from images such as magazine covers or product boxes. The images contain digital watermarks that carry collateral data. The collateral data is used to interrogate either a local or a remote database which contains information pertinent to the particular user's characteristics.

    摘要翻译: 将文件或图像中的附属信息与特定用户的特征的信息一起使用以将用户引导到特定网站的系统。 用户直接访问网站,并且基于用户特征的数据库中的原始抵押信息和信息来呈现信息。 在一个实施例中,文件或数据流包括识别中央网站的URL的抵押数据。 当包含抵押品数据的文件被传送到浏览器时,访问中央网站,并且询问包含各种信息的数据库。 数据库搜索的输出是将接收原始抵押品数据的浏览器引导到另一个网站的另一个URL,然后向用户发送信息。 在替代实施例中,用户使用手持数字照相机从诸如杂志封面或产品盒的图像收集信息。 图像包含携带附带数据的数字水印。 附带数据用于询问本地或远程数据库,其中包含与特定用户的特征相关的信息。

    METHODS AND DEVICES EMPLOYING OPTICAL SENSORS AND/OR STEGANOGRAPHY
    9.
    发明申请
    METHODS AND DEVICES EMPLOYING OPTICAL SENSORS AND/OR STEGANOGRAPHY 失效
    使用光学传感器和/或STEGANOGRAPHY的方法和设备

    公开(公告)号:US20070274561A1

    公开(公告)日:2007-11-29

    申请号:US11671371

    申请日:2007-02-05

    IPC分类号: G06K9/00

    摘要: A wireless phone is equipped with a 2D optical sensor, enabling a variety of applications. For example, such a phone may also be provided with a digital watermark decoder, permitting decoding of steganographic data on imaged objects. Movement of a phone may be inferred by sensing movement of an imaged pattern across the optical sensor's field of view, allowing use of the phone as a gestural input device through which a user can signal instructions to a computer-based process. A variety of other arrangements by which electronic devices can interact with the physical world are also detailed, e.g., involving sensing and responding to digital watermarks, bar codes, RFIDs, etc. Other novel arrangements are also detailed.

    摘要翻译: 无线电话配备了2D光学传感器,可实现各种应用。 例如,这样的电话还可以设置有数字水印解码器,允许对成像对象上的隐写数据进行解码。 可以通过感测成像图案在光学传感器的视场中的移动来推断电话的移动,从而允许使用电话作为手势输入设备,用户可以通过该手势将指令信号发送到基于计算机的进程。 电子设备可以与物理世界交互的各种其他布置也是详细的,例如涉及感测和响应数字水印,条形码,RFID等。其他新颖的布置也是详细的。

    Capturing Physical Feature Data
    10.
    发明申请
    Capturing Physical Feature Data 有权
    捕获物理特征数据

    公开(公告)号:US20070187505A1

    公开(公告)日:2007-08-16

    申请号:US11625125

    申请日:2007-01-19

    IPC分类号: G06K7/10 G06K7/14

    摘要: Directional albedo of a particular article, such as an identity card, is measured and stored. When the article is later presented, it can be confirmed to be the same particular article by re-measuring the albedo function, and checking for correspondence against the earlier-stored data. The re-measuring can be performed through us of a handheld optical device, such as a camera-equipped cell phone. The albedo function can serve as random key data in a variety of cryptographic applications. The function can be changed during the life of the article. A variety of other features are also detailed.

    摘要翻译: 测量和存储特定物品(例如身份证件)的定向反照率。 当文章稍后呈现时,可以通过重新测量反照率函数和检查与早期存储的数据的对应关系来确认是相同的特定文章。 可以通过我们的手持式光学设备(例如配备有相机的手机)进行重新测量。 反照率功能可以作为各种加密应用程序中的随机密钥数据。 该功能可在文章的使用期限内更改。 还详细介绍了各种其他功能。