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Methods and arrangements including data migration among computing platforms, E.G. through use of steganographic screen encoding

  • US 9,978,095 B2
  • Filed: 01/15/2015
  • Issued: 05/22/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising the acts:

  • generating identification data for a product promoted by a first merchant'"'"'s web page that is displayed in a first window on a screen of a first computer, said generating including parsing or optically-recognizing text from said web page;

    sending the generated identification data for the product to a computer of a second merchant, receiving in response price and local availability information for a product to be offered to a user, and storing said received price and local availability information in a database; and

    on the screen of the first computer, overlaying a second window atop the first window, the second window lacking a title bar and presenting a digital watermark pattern, the watermark pattern steganographically encoding a data payload that includes an address link to said stored information in said database;

    wherein the second window does not visibly change appearance of the web page or computer screen, yet the second window enables a smartphone to later link to the stored information based on phone-captured imagery depicting the computer screen, from which said address link can be decoded.

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