Patent 7415129 was granted and assigned to Digimarc on August, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention relates generally to generating or otherwise providing reports associated with content (e.g., audio or video). One claim recites a method including: processing data representing audio or video content; based at least in part on derived information, obtaining data associated with the audio or video content; and providing a report to a client or remote location. The report including at least a portion of the data associated with the audio or video content. Audio content includes audio portions and video content includes video elements. The act of processing provides information derived from the data representing audio portions or the video elements. Of course, other combinations are provided and claimed as well.