Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for encoding digital assets along with content control data as an image. Portions of a digital asset (e.g., audio data, video data, geospatial data, etc.) are encoded as series of graphical representations. One or more portions of the series of graphical representations are replaced with content control data. Content control data can be placed in a series of graphical representations in a manner that makes the presence of the content control data difficult to detect (e.g., based on the principles of steganography). Two dimensional images can be lossless relative to corresponding digital assets. Encoding can take redundancies between successive graphic image representations into account, reducing (potentially substantially) resource consumption when storing and transmitting digital assets.

Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for streaming portions of a quilted image representation along with content control data. Portions of a digital asset (e.g., audio data, video data, geospatial data, etc.) along with content control data are encoded as series of graphical representations and quilted into a two dimensional image. Digital asset portions and content control data can be un-quilted from the two dimensional image and streamed to other computer systems. The streamed data can be decoded at the other computer systems. Content control data can be used at the other computer systems to make content control decisions with respect to the portions of digital assets quilted into the two dimensional image.

Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for decoding a quilted image representation into a digital asset along with content control data. Portions of a digital asset (e.g., audio data, video data, geospatial data, etc.) along with content control data are encoded as series of graphical representations and quilted into a two dimensional image. Encoding can take redundancies and multiple levels of resolution within successive graphic image representations into account, reducing (potentially substantially) resource consumption when storing and transmitting digital assets. The content control data can be un-quilted, possibly along with portions of digital assets, from the two dimensional image. The content control data can be used to make content control decisions for the portions of digital assets.