Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

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http://www.tumbleweed.com/pdfs/va-wavesys1.pdf

Utilizing an integrated solution from Wave Systems and Tumbleweed, users who have been issued a standard X509v3 digital certificate stored on a smart card can now be validated in real-time using the EMBASSY® “trusted” smart card reader and the Valicert Validation Authority as shown in Figure 1. Ensuring users with expired or revoked credentials cannot access the computing platform including the smart card reader itself allows secure integration of classified and unclassified networks, a key requirement in enabling critical data sharing and communications.

http://www.verimatrix.com/resources/Verimatrix_insert_letter.pdf

Security System for Video on Demand

The Verimatrix VCAS utilizes the principles of PKI (Public Key Infrastructure), which uses X.509 digital certificates to identify each

component in the system, as well as to securely encrypt data using public/private keys.

http://www.verimatrix.com/partners/chipset_vendors.php

http://www.kasenna.com/downloads/articles/verimatrix_speaks_out_2_1_07.pdf

VideoMarkTM - Enhanced STBs from partners will be running

Verimatrix's user-specific forensic watermarking technology.

Sigma Designs

Sigma Designs specializes in silicon-based media processors for IPTV set-top boxes, digital media receivers, high definition DVD players, HDTV, and portable media players. The company's award-winning REALmagic® Video Streaming Technology is used in a variety of consumer applications providing highly integrated solutions for high-quality decoding of H.264, WMV9, MPEG-4, MPEG-2 and MPEG-1. Headquartered in Milpitas, Calif., the company also has sales offices in China, Europe, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. For more information, please visit the company's web site at www.sigmadesigns.com/.

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http://www.wavesys.com/news/press_archive/99/990104Sigma.html

Sigma Designs Announces Early Adoption of Wave Systems’

EMBASSY E-Commerce Technology

Alliance Enables Secure E-commerce Transactions on PCs and Set-Top Boxes

Consumers Can Purchase, Pay-Per-Use, and Rent-To-Own Content Directly from Desktops Through Wave’s CD-Bundling program

San Jose, CA, Jan. 5, 1999

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1999_Jan_5/ai_53509262

Sigma Designs Announces Early Adoption of Wave Systems' EMBASSY E-Commerce Technology; Alliance Enables Secure E-Commerce Transactions on PCs and Set-Top Boxes

Business Wire, Jan 5, 1999 SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 5, 1999--

Consumers Can Purchase, Pay-Per-Use, and Rent-to-Own Content

Directly From Desktops Through Wave's CD-Bundling Program

Delivering on its strategy to proliferate trusted-client technology further into end-user devices, Wave Systems Corp., (OTC BB:WAVX) (http://www.wave.com), a company that facilitates secure transactions on the desktop, today announced a technology license agreement with Sigma Designs (Nasdaq:SIGM), a leading producer of DVD/MPEG-2 decoder chips, OEM modules, and add-in cards.

The agreement enables Sigma to incorporate Wave's EMBASSY(TM) (EMBedded Application Security SYstem) technology into Sigma's products, which can be used in a variety of popular consumer electronics such as living room PCs and set-top boxes. This will enable Sigma to embed robust digital content metering as well as secure transaction and application processing capabilities into Sigma's OEM customer products.

The agreement allows Sigma to purchase EMBASSY chips from approved Integrated Circuit suppliers such as ITE, SMSC, IGST, and OKI Semiconductor. Initial prototypes can be sampled in the third quarter of 1999. Sigma is currently co-marketing with Wave to a number of PC OEM partners to integrate this new technology into their products. The agreement will also enable the end user to purchase, pay-per-use, or rent-to-own a broad collection of content bundled with the product through Wave Systems' CD-Bundling program.

"Sigma is a driving force in advancement of the MPEG technology used in most multimedia PCs on the market today," said Thinh Tran, chairman and chief executive officer. "Wave's EMBASSY E-Commerce System will allow Sigma Designs to benefit from shared revenue from the sale of digital content through our hardware equipment as well as allow our OEM customers to gain product differentiation."

The EMBASSY E-Commerce System is an open, programmable, standards-based platform for running secure applications and protecting important data and digital identities on individual PCs and other end-user devices. The EMBASSY E-Commerce System is the first implementation of the trusted-client technology recently announced by Wave, and will enable third-party software vendors to develop secure PC-based e-commerce applications that run in a trusted environment.

"We are excited to have our metering and encryption technology adopted by Sigma Designs," said Steven Sprague, president of Wave Systems Corp. "By bundling top quality software titles with Sigma's future products, we will offer OEM customers a broad range of choices and capabilities."

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-- OEMs and "client-side" computing equipment manufacturers will

gain product differentiation as well as benefit from shared

revenue from the sale of digital content through their hardware.

-- The software community can benefit from a new distribution

platform, flexible pricing models, and the security inherent in

trusted-client technology.

-- Consumers utilizing the EMBASSY technology will be able to

quickly and conveniently purchase, pay-per-use, or rent-to-own

top entertainment, education, and software titles directly from

end-user devices.
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Moreover, EMBASSY is compatible with content distribution channels including the Internet, cable television, Data-Broadcast, CD-ROM, or DVD, while also providing the needed end-user content and subscriber management system. Consumers receive the flexibility of paying for information based on their actual usage.

About Wave Systems Corp

Founded in 1988, the mission of Wave Systems Corporation is to create the world's best technologies and services to secure and sell digital information. Wave's core EMBASSY technology is an inexpensive, proprietary hardware- and software-based device that enables secure transaction processing and distributed information metering in users' PCs.

Embedded in PC hardware and peripherals, set-top boxes, and other devices, EMBASSY is the foundation for client-based security applications and a new distribution and purchasing model for content and services. This low-cost, secure "system within a system" will enable the personal computer to assume an important new role in the evolving digital economy.

By moving secure transactions to the desktop, Wave provides intrinsic value to the electronic commerce process, benefiting PC users, application developers, and hardware manufacturers. For more information, please visit Wave's corporate Web site at http://www.wave.com.

About Sigma Designs

Sigma Designs, headquartered in Fremont, Calif., is an acknowledged leader in the fast-growing multimedia market. Sigma entered the multimedia field in 1993 with products based on the MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group) standard for compressing and decompressing digital audio and video signals.

Sigma Designs is a leading producer of DVD/MPEG-2 decoder chips, OEM modules, and add-in cards for computer manufacturers, upgrade kit developers, and systems integrators for stand-alone systems and network applications. For additional information, call 800/845-8086 or 510/770-0100, fax [phone], or visit Sigma's Web site at http://www.sigmadesigns.com.

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http://wavesys.com/news/press_archive/01/010422tvtonic.html

Wavexpress Teams with Envivio to Develop Enhanced Content Delivery Tools for Broadcasters

Wavexpress to Integrate TVTonic® Broadcast Platform With Envivio's MPEG-4 Technology Suite

NEW YORK, NY (April 22, 2001) - Wavexpress

Envivio

Envivio.com, Inc. is the leading developer of end-to-end MPEG-4 interactive broadcasting solutions utilizing MPEG-4's rich set of integrated streaming media elements: high performance audio and video, two- and three dimensional graphics and animation, and rich interactive user experience. The company maintains a worldwide perspective on creating MPEG-4-based solutions to enable broadcasters, distribution network operators and content developers to build new revenues and utilize the efficiencies of targeting content at the full range of MPEG-4 capable devices. Envivio's solutions include Envivio Broadcast Studio for MPEG-4 authoring, Envivio Media Servers to distribute, and EnvivioTV® to receive MPEG-4 content. The company is privately held and has received investments from Royal Philips Electronics, France Telecom, Sigma Designs, Aurora Ventures, Global Accelerator and other leading broadband media investors.

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http://www.broadcastbuyer.tv/publish/Media_Protection_62/Major_Movie_Studios_Specify_Digimarc_Digita...

Major Movie Studios Specify Digimarc Digital Watermarking for Digital Cinema

Fri, 29th, Jul 2005

Digimarc Corporation digital watermarking technology has been incorporated as part of the Digital Cinema System Specification, which was announced yesterday in Hollywood by Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI), to help deter piracy of digital movies shown at theaters around the world.

DCI is a joint venture of Disney, Fox, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal and Warner Bros. Studios.

The Digital Cinema System Specification offers industry guidelines designed to help spur deployment of digital cinema systems for the hundreds of thousands of movie theater screens in the United States and around the world while establishing uniform levels of security, distribution, performance, reliability and quality control.

Digital watermarking makes a unique technical contribution to the movie industry's long-awaited transition from film formats to digital for theatrical release. The technology is part of a package of security features that protects content owners' copyrights in this exciting new format and distribution channel.

According to the specification, digital watermarking is required in both the video and audio streams of digital movies, where it will be used as a forensic tool to help identify the theater, location, production version and even the date and time that a film plays at a specific theater.

"The requirements for secure digital distribution have been one of the stumbling blocks to widespread deployment of digital cinema. By incorporating digital watermarking in the distribution requirements, the movie industry can now confidently deliver digital movies to theaters worldwide and offer consumers more choice and richer entertainment experiences in their local theaters," said Reed Stager, vice president, Corporate Licensing, Marketing and Public Policy, Digimarc.

Stager continued, "We are pleased that many of our business partners are interested in supporting this initiative, based on significant investments in research and development. We believe that the studios will get a high level of support from technology suppliers. We will do all that we can to support the success of the movie industry and our business partners' efforts to contribute to that success."

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) estimates that movie piracy costs the entertainment industry $3 billion a year in lost revenue. Because digital watermarks survive digital-to-analog conversion, they can address one of the most common piracy threats identified by the MPAA -- the illegal recording of movies from theater screens, by employees or movie-goers, using hand-held video cameras -- and help provide forensic evidence for future investigations or prosecution.

Digital watermarking from Digimarc and its business partners is increasingly being deployed by the entertainment industry to more effectively manage media content and associated rights and deter piracy. Nearly all the major movie studios and record labels as well as major TV broadcasters around the world are beginning to use digital watermarking-based solutions to help identify and protect copyrighted content.

Weblinks: http://www.digimarc.com


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Thursday, April 12, 2007

Philips Launches Watermarking Tool For PayTV Providers


Philips introduces VTrack, a forensic watermarking solution for set-top box integration, supported by major chipset vendors including Broadcom, ST and Texas Instruments.

The VTrack is an advanced watermarking technology that offers PayTV providers a new tool to get a grip on illegal content duplication and distribution.

Philips says that VTrack embeds a unique identifier into the video signal in a consumer friendly manner, as it does not restrict personal use and enjoyment of entertainment content, but pirated content can be traced back to a specific PayTV subscriber. Philips VTrack will enable content providers to confidently broadcast more high definition and early release material that is typically at higher risk for piracy.

The VTrack is designed to protect premium, copyrighted content spanning across PayTV, Video on Demand, and hotel TV. VTrack supports HD and SD content, is format independent and is therefore transparent for current and next generation codecs, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264/AVC and VC-1.

The watermarks cannot be separated from the content or altered. Even after severe quality degradation of the video such as scaling, cropping, compression and even camcorder copying, the pirated content can still be traced to a specific PayTV subscriber.

VTrack will be shown at the NAB 2007 conference in Las Vegas, April 16-19, at the Philips Content Identification booth, LVCC, South hall, booth SU5229.