Browser-based media scan

• US 10,162,488 B1
• Filed: 09/23/2013
• Issued: 12/25/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Wang, Zhao Yuan, Khan, Arshia
• Primary Examiner(s): Srivastava, Vivek
• Assistant Examiner(s): Khan, Atta
• Application Number:
  US14/034,079
• Time in Patent Office: 1,919 Days
• Field of Search: 709203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/00 Security arrangements for protecting computers, components thereof, programs or data against unauthorised activity
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/10 Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16 ; Digital rights management [DRM]

Abstract

Disclosed are various embodiments for browser-based scanning and matching of media items. Files identified by a user via a user interface element rendered by a browser are read by the browser, which can generate a fingerprint associated with the files. The fingerprint can be transmitted to a media scan service, which can provide an indication of whether the files match a media item maintained by a media storage service.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying instructions executable by a browser in a computing device, the instructions comprising JavaScript code embedded within a browser page rendered by the browser that, when executed by the browser, causes the computing device to at least:

obtain an identification of a directory from a user interface, the directory within a file system of the computing device;

identify a plurality of files within the directory;

determine whether the computing device is an authorized device associated with a user account of a particular user in a media storage service based upon at least a media access control (MAC) address of the computing device, the media storage service executed by a computing environment accessible to the computing device over a network;

read a portion of individual ones of the plurality of files using a JavaScript File Application Programming Interface (API) or a JavaScript FileReader API;

generate a respective fingerprint associated with the individual ones of the plurality of files based at least in part on the portion, the respective fingerprint comprising a digital value that uniquely identifies the individual ones of the plurality of files;

determine whether the respective fingerprint corresponds to a respective media item stored in a media storage system; and

transmit a request to the media storage system to associate the respective media item with the user account within the media storage service without requiring uploading of the individual ones of the plurality of files from the computing device to the media storage system.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions correspond to a plug-in for a browser.

3. A system, comprising:

a computing device; and

a browser application executed in the computing device, the browser application rendering a page, the page, when rendered by the browser application, comprising JavaScript code embedded within the page that causes the browser application to at least;

obtain an indication of a file via a user interface rendered by the browser application;

determine whether the computing device is an authorized device associated with a user account of a particular user in a media storage service based upon at least a media access control (MAC) address of the computing device, the media storage service executed by a computing environment accessible to the computing device over a network;

read a portion of the file using a JavaScript File Application Programming Interface (API) or a JavaScript FileReader API;

generate a fingerprint from the portion of the file within the browser, the fingerprint comprising a digital value that uniquely identifies the file from a plurality of media files;

transmit the fingerprint of the file from the browser to the media storage service provided by a computing environment in response to a determination that the computing device is the authorized device;

cause a media item corresponding to the file within a media storage service to be associated with a user account within the media storage service without requiring uploading of the file from the computing device to the media storage system.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the portion of the file comprises code that is executed by the browser application.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein the media item comprises one of:

an image, a song or a movie.

6. The system of claim 3, wherein the fingerprint uniquely identifies the media item with respect to other media items indexed by the media storage service.

7. The system of claim 3, wherein the file further comprises a directory of a file system associated with the computing device.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the indication of the file is obtained by rendering a drag-and-drop user interface element in which the file can be dropped.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the page further comprises JavaScript code that prompts the user to install a scan and match tool when the file comprises a threshold number of a plurality of files.

10. The system of claim 3, wherein the page further comprises JavaScript code that denies association of the file with the user account when the computing device is an unauthorized device associated with the user account.

11. A method, comprising:

obtaining, by at least one computing device, an identification of a file via a drag-and-drop user interface element rendered by a browser application executed by the at least one computing device, the browser application executing JavaScript executable code embedded within a browser page;

determining, by the at least one computing device, whether the at least one computing device is an authorized device associated with a user account of a particular user in a media storage service based upon at least a media access control (MAC) address of the at least one computing device, the media storage service executed by a computing environment accessible to the at least one computing device over a network;

reading, by the at least one computing device, a portion of the file by the browser application using a JavaScript File Application Programming Interface (API) or a JavaScript FileReader API;

generating, by the at least one computing device, a fingerprint associated with the portion of the file within the browser application, the fingerprint comprising a digital value that uniquely identifies the file from a plurality of media files;

transmitting, by the at least one computing device, the fingerprint of the file to the media storage service; and

causing, by the at least one computing device, a media item corresponding to the file within the media storage service to be associated with a user account within the media storage service without requiring uploading of the file from the at least one computing device to the media storage system.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein reading the portion of the file by the browser application is performed via an application programming interface (API) accessible to page logic executed by the browser application.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the method is performed via page logic embedded in a page rendered by the browser.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the fingerprint is generated by the browser application and the browser application further identifies a media item corresponding to the file based at least in part upon the fingerprint.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the media item is associated with the user account of a user in the media storage service.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the fingerprint uniquely identifies the media item with respect to other media items indexed by the media storage service.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein transmitting, by the at least one computing device, the fingerprint of the file to the media storage service further comprises transmitting the fingerprint of the file to the media storage service in response to a determination that the portion of the file meets a minimum size threshold.