Pixelgarde develops technologies relating to metadata control, geolocation handling, privacy-aware media sharing, and digital media workflows across smartphones, tablets, applications, and connected device ecosystems.tablets, applications, cloud platforms, and social media environments.
The Pixelgarde patent portfolio includes inventions with priority dates originating in 2010 relating to metadata control and modification systems for digital photos and video shared through smartphones, tablets, applications, cloud platforms, and social media environments.
Metadata Management
Geolocation & Privacy Controls
Geolocation & Privacy Controls
User-controlled viewing, editing, removal, and modification of metadata associated with digital media.
Geolocation & Privacy Controls
Geolocation & Privacy Controls
Geolocation & Privacy Controls
Technologies relating to geotag handling and privacy-aware media sharing workflows.
Media Attribution & Watermarking
Media Attribution & Watermarking
Media Attribution & Watermarking
Association and persistence of metadata, identifiers, and attribution data across media workflows.
Cross-Platform Media Sharing
Media Attribution & Watermarking
Media Attribution & Watermarking
Systems supporting metadata-aware media distribution between devices, applications, messaging systems, and online services.
Historical Product Implementations
Pixelgarde technologies were historically implemented in commercially available software applications and media workflow tools across Apple iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows operating environments.
These implementations included functionality relating to metadata visibility, metadata modification, geolocation handling, privacy-aware media sharing, attribution workflows, and metadata-aware export and distribution processes for digital photos and video.
Historical implementations included mobile and desktop workflows involving metadata inspection, modification, removal, persistence, and user-controlled sharing behavior associated with digital media content.
The portfolio reflects a long-running continuation family with commercialization history and ongoing patent prosecution activities relating to metadata control technologies across evolving digital media ecosystems.
Applications included functionality relating to metadata visibility, metadata modification, privacy-aware media sharing, geolocation handling, and media attribution workflows.
Patent Portfolio
Issued United States patents and pending applications relating to metadata control, geolocation handling, privacy-aware sharing workflows, and digital media management technologies.
US 8,732,168 - System and Method for Controlling and Organizing Metadata Associated with On-Line Content
US 8,849,819 - System and Method for Controlling and Organizing Metadata Associated with On-Line Content
US 9,298,943 - System and Method for Controlling and Organizing Metadata Associated with On-Line Content
US 9,697,293 - System and Method for Controlling and Organizing Metadata Associated with On-Line Content
US 10,387,518 - System and Method for Controlling and Organizing Metadata Associated with On-Line Content
US 11,232,165 - System and Method for Controlling and Organizing Metadata Associated with On-Line Content
US 11,748,432 - System and Method for Controlling and Organizing Metadata Associated with On-Line Content
US 12,182,218 - Smart Phone for Controlling Metadata Associated with Exported Image Data and Methods for Use Therewith
US 12,277,185 - System and Method for Controlling and Organizing Metadata Associated with On-Line Content
US 12,639,388 - Managing Metadata Associated with Exported Image Data in a Handheld Device and Smartphone
US 19/660,540 (Pending) - Altering Shared Metdata in a Handheld Device and Smartphone Based on the Sharing Mechanism
The Pixelgarde patent portfolio represents a long-running continuation family relating to metadata control, geolocation handling, privacy-aware sharing workflows, and digital media management across smartphones, tablets, applications, cloud systems, and connected device ecosystems, with priority dates originating in 2010.
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