Patent Document ID: 8373895
Application ID: 12276034
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for embedding information in a document comprising: receiving a digital image data document to be rendered; checking a border area at an edge of the digital image data document; determining whether all the digital image data document within at least a portion of the border area partitioned into blocks is blank; clearing all the digital image data document within at least a portion of the blocks of the border area if it is not blank to produce blank partitioned blocks; receiving indication that the document is to have no-scan indicia to be embedded; assigning a sequence to a plurality of the blank partitioned blocks; assigning each of a plurality of data carrying dot patterns representative of the no-scan indicia to each of the plurality of blank portioned blocks according to the assigned sequence; determining whether a sufficient number of blank partitioned blocks are greater than or equal to a number of bits of intended value to be embedded, divided by a number of bits which can be embedded per blank partitioned block; and in response to a sufficient number of blank partitioned blocks existing performing: encoding the no-scan indicia to be embedded as the plurality of data carrying dot patterns, each dot too small to be visually noticeable; embedding each of the plurality of data carrying dot patterns in the border area; and, rendering the document with the embedded data carrying dot patterns in the border with each embedded data carrying dot rendered too small to be visually noticeable.