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Information processing apparatus enabling electronic watermarking, and communication network connectable to such information processing apparatus

  • US 6,980,668 B1
  • Filed: 09/30/1999
  • Issued: 12/27/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/06/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

  • discrimination means for discriminating a process, in which an electronic watermark is to be applied to data that is to be registered, from among a plurality of different processes that are executed for the data to be registered; and

    registration means for registering a plurality of purposes of use for the same data and registering a plurality of processes for executing the purposes of use, as a timing of applying the electronic watermark for each of the registered purposes of use, so that the electronic watermark is applied to the data to be registered during the process discriminated by said discrimination means based on the registration.

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