Mobile Commerce from Watermarked Broadcast Audio

Abstract

Abstract-Digital watermarking is a method to embed secret data into digital signals. We present a novel service that uses watermarking to add metadata into radio broadcast music. A user can record the music from radio loudspeakers and extract the watermark. The watermark can contain e.g. value adding metadata about the song or a link to an external server. This solution offers a new channel for mobile commerce.

Mobile DRM-Enabled Multimedia Platform for Peer-to-Peer Applications

“…[9] The user can record the audio with the smart phone and the DRM Player can extract the watermarked link from the recording and use it to download the content from the server.…”

Watermark-enabled value added services to broadcast audio

“…1 illustrates the scenario where value adding services have been provided in the broadcast media. The scenario has been introduced in [13]. The radio station can embed a variety of information into music it broadcasts, e.g., basic information about the recorded musical piece, such as the name of the song, artist and album in which the song is contained.…”