Image Share Statements via Digital Identifiers for Rights Enforcement

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Solution Overview

Problem

The widespread distribution of images and videos on the Internet makes it difficult to identify the initial actors responsible for their sharing, especially when done in bad faith, and enforcing the 'right to be forgotten' is computationally impractical due to the vast number of copies across various service providers.

Innovation Solution

A system that encodes images with digital identifiers and associate them with share statements, allowing service providers to manage and enforce sharing permissions through a centralized server system, enabling efficient identification and control of image distribution.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If images are shared widely across the Internet, then image distribution and accessibility are improved, but the ability to identify initial actors and enforce sharing restrictions deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveimage distribution efficiencyVSAvoididentification of initial actors

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The system embeds digital identifiers and share statements into images before they are shared, allowing tracking of distribution history. This preliminary action enables later identification of initial actors and enforcement of sharing restrictions without requiring complex analysis of the image content itself.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces digital identifiers and share statements as intermediary elements between the image and the sharing process. These intermediaries carry information about the image's distribution history and sharing restrictions, enabling tracking and control without directly analyzing the image content.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If computational power is increased to compare images across the Internet, then the ability to enforce the right to be forgotten is improved, but the computational cost and time required increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveenforcement of right to be forgottenVSAvoidcomputational power required

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts the essential identification information from the image by using embedded digital identifiers and share statements. This extraction approach replaces the need for computationally intensive image comparison, allowing enforcement of the right to be forgotten by simply querying the identifier information rather than analyzing the entire image against millions of other images.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

Instead of comparing the original image against all other images, the system uses copies of the digital identifier and share statement information. These copies contain all necessary metadata about the image's distribution history, enabling efficient enforcement without requiring repeated computational comparison of the actual image content.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

3Adaptability or versatility

If images are distributed across multiple service providers, then image accessibility and sharing capability are improved, but the complexity of managing and controlling sharing permissions increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveimage sharing capabilityVSAvoidmanagement of sharing permissions

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The digital identifier and share statement system provides universal functionality across different service providers. The same embedded identifiers work throughout the entire Internet, allowing a single image to be tracked and controlled across multiple platforms without requiring separate management systems for each service provider.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent merges the functions of image identification, sharing restriction enforcement, and distribution tracking into a single integrated system. By combining these functions into one unified approach using digital identifiers and share statements, the system reduces the overall complexity compared to managing separate control mechanisms for each function.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS12536311B2Providing a share statement linked to a digital identifier of an image

Publication Date: 2026.01.27 SASHA APS

AI summary

Approaches for a service provider to act according to auxiliary information that includes a share statement linked to an image. A user uploads an image to the service provider. The service provider sends the image to a server system that comprises a registry with a plurality of one or more digital identifier keys linked to auxiliary information including at least a share statement. The server system searches in the image for one or more encoded digital identifiers as a function of the one or more digital identifier keys. When the server system identifies a digital identifier in the image, the server system sends at least the share statement of the image to the service provider so that the service provider may act in accordance with the share statement.