System for using extracted feature vectors to perform an action associated with a work identifier

• US 10,063,940 B1
• Filed: 09/13/2017
• Issued: 08/28/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Network-1 Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Network-1 Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: Cox, Ingemar J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chen, Cai
• Application Number:
  US15/703,410
• Time in Patent Office: 349 Days
• Field of Search: None
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• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4394 : involving operations for analysing the audio stream, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in audio streams arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of audio in broadcast systems H04H60/58
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Abstract

A computer system comprising one or more processors and computer-readable media operatively connected thereto, having stored thereon instructions for carrying out the steps of: maintaining one or more databases comprising first electronic data comprising digitally created reference compact electronic representations for each of a plurality of reference electronic works and second electronic data associated with the reference electronic works and related to action information corresponding thereto; obtaining a first digitally created compact electronic representation comprising one or more extracted feature vectors of a first electronic work; identifying a matching reference electronic work by comparing the first digitally created compact electronic representation of the first electronic work with the first electronic data using a sub-linear search of the first electronic data; determining the action information corresponding to the matching reference electronic work based on the second electronic data; and associating the determined action information with the first electronic work.

Claims

1. A computer system comprising:

(a) one or more processors; and

(b) one or more computer-readable media operatively connected to the one or more processors and having stored thereon instructions for carrying out the steps of;

(1) obtaining, by the computer system, a first electronic media work, wherein the first electronic media work comprises at least a first audio file;

(2) assigning, by the computer system, a work identifier to the first electronic media work;

(3) extracting, by the computer system, from at least a portion of the at least the first audio file, using, at least in part, a frequency-based decomposition of the portion produced by a Fourier frequency decomposition, a first electronic feature vector comprising a first compact representation of the first electronic media work;

(4) sending, from the computer system to another computer system, the first electronic feature vector and the work identifier;

(5) receiving, by the computer system from the another computer system, first action information and the work identifier, wherein;

(i) the another computer system is operatively connected to a database comprising;

(A) first electronic data related to identification of one or more reference electronic works; and

(B) second electronic data related to action information comprising an action to perform corresponding to each of the one or more reference electronic works; and

(ii) the first action information is determined by the another computer system by using an approximate nearest neighbor search, which is a sub-linear search of the first electronic data that identifies a match to the first electronic feature vector within a threshold but does not guarantee to identify the closest match to the first electronic feature vector;

(6) associating, by the computer system, the first action information with the work identifier associated with the first electronic media work; and

(7) performing, by the computer system, the first action information in association with the first electronic media work.

2. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the first action information comprises information related to a URL.

3. The computer system of claim 1, wherein an action associated with the first action information further comprises redirecting a request to an associate website by a network address translation.

4. The computer system of claim 1, wherein an action associated with the first action information further comprises automatically dialing a telephone number.

5. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the first electronic media work further comprises at least a first video file.

6. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the first action information is determined by the another computer system further based on a temporal sequence of the extracted first electronic feature vector.

7. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the one or more computer-readable media further stores thereon instructions for carrying out the additional steps of:

(8) generating, at the computer system, machine-readable instructions to be executed by a first electronic media device in performing the determined first action information; and

(9) providing, from the computer system to the first electronic media device, the machine-readable instructions in response to a query received from the first electronic media device related to the first electronic media work.

8. The computer system of claim 7, wherein the machine-readable instructions are further based on device information relating to the first electronic media device at which the first electronic media work is rendered.

9. The computer system of claim 8, wherein the device information comprises a geographic location of the first electronic media device.

10. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the one or more computer-readable media further stores thereon instructions for carrying out the additional steps of:

(8) obtaining, by the computer system, a second electronic media work, wherein the second electronic media work comprises at least a second audio file;

(9) assigning, by the computer system, a second work identifier to the second electronic media work;

(10) extracting, by the computer system, from at least a second portion of the at least the second audio file, using, at least in part, the frequency-based decomposition of the second portion produced by a Fourier frequency decomposition, a second electronic feature vector comprising a second compact representation of the second electronic media work;

(11) sending, from the computer system to the another computer system, the second electronic feature vector and the second work identifier;

(12) receiving, by the computer system from the another computer system, second action information, wherein;

(i) the another computer system is operatively connected to the database; and

(ii) the second action information is determined by the another computer system by using an approximate nearest neighbor search, which is a sub-linear search of the first electronic data that identifies a match to the second electronic feature vector within a threshold but does not guarantee to identify the closest match to the first electronic feature vector, and wherein none of the one or more reference electronic works is identified to match the second electronic feature vector;

(13) associating, by the computer system, the second action information with the second work identifier associated with the second electronic media work; and

(14) performing, by the computer system, the second action information in association with the second electronic media work.