Patent ID: 9667688
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: G06F,G11B,H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A method for providing watermarked content to an end-user device via a content providing system, the content providing system comprising at least a first party system and a second party system, the method comprising: providing content elements for the content, wherein at least two copies of at least a first content element and at least two copies of at least a second content element are provided, and wherein the at least two copies of the at least one first content element are provided with different watermarks and the at least two copies of the at least one second content element are provided with different watermarks; the first party system selecting a first party watermark by selecting a watermarked copy of the at least one first content element of the content elements; the second party system selecting a second party watermark by selecting a watermarked copy of the at least one second content element, different from the at least one first content element, of the content elements; delivering watermarked content to the end-user device, the watermarked content containing the watermarked copy for the first content element selected by the first party system and the watermarked copy for the second content element selected by the second party system such that the watermarked content contains the first party watermark and the second party watermark.