Patent Document ID: 7539870
Application ID: 10775791
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for facilitating media watermarking, comprising: utilizing, at least in part, biased, randomized statistics to determine at least one mark value for media by generating random areas with a subset of overlapping areas within a two-dimensional form of the media, randomly assigning an entry value to each random area utilizing a user key, and determining the mark value at a particular location of the two-dimensional media form utilizing at least one Bernoulli parameter derived from the random area entry values; determining the mark value by determining a number of random areas containing the particular location, determining a number of random areas containing the particular location with a first particular entry characteristic, determining a number of random areas containing the particular location with a second particular entry characteristic, calculating a Bernoulli parameter based, at least in part, on the first and second particular entry characteristics and a bias value, and selecting the mark value based on the Bernoulli parameter, wherein the Bernoulli parameter calculated utilizing at least one equation: 
 A=B,p ( i,j )=drawn uniformly from (1 −p,p ); where A denotes a number of random areas possessing the first particular entry characteristic, B denotes a number of random areas possessing the second particular entry characteristic, p denotes a predetermined probability variable, bias denotes the bias value, and p(i,j) denotes the Bernoulli parameter for location (i,j) within the two-dimensional form of the media; embedding the mark value into at least one location in the media, and recording the media containing the embedded mark value on a computer-readable storage medium.