Video matching service to offline counterpart

• US 10,229,198 B2
• Filed: 06/20/2016
• Issued: 03/12/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Gracenote Media Services LLC (RR Donnelley & Sons Company)
• Original Assignee: Gracenote, Inc. (RR Donnelley & Sons Company)
• Inventors: Ong, Edwin Seng Eng, Vikati, Aleksandra R., Schroeder, Brian T., Wood, Joel H., Chang, Min Kyung M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Ekpo, Nnenna N
• Application Number:
  US15/187,663
• Publication Number:
  US 20160378862A1
• Time in Patent Office: 995 Days
• Field of Search: 725 41, 725 44, 725 53, 725115
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/71 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/735 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7867 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title and artist information, manually generated time, location and usage information, user ratings
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23109 by placing content in organized collections, e.g. EPG data repository details of retrieval of video data and associated meta data in video databases G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73

Abstract

An address is received for an online asset. A metadata associated with the online asset is gotten. The metadata is used to match the online asset to a corresponding offline media asset.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving an address for an online media asset, the online media asset including at least one of audio or video;

receiving a metadata associated with the online media asset, wherein the metadata includes an asset attribute;

identifying whether the asset attribute is a strong signal attribute, wherein strong signal attributes include a list of cast or a list of crew; and

using the metadata at least in part by prioritizing strong signal attributes over weaker signal attributes to match the online media asset to a corresponding offline media asset, the offline media asset including at least one of audio or video.

2. The method of claim 1, further including returning a pointer to the offline media asset.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the pointer is an ID field of a commercial database of media asset listings.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein using the metadata to match a data association between the online media asset to a corresponding offline media asset includes using the metadata to match to a database record corresponding to the offline media asset.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the database record is part of a commercial database of media asset listings.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the online media asset and the corresponding offline media asset are each videos.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the videos are one or more of the following:

televisions shows, television episodes, movies, television series, music videos, televised sports events, and televised events.

8. The method of claim 1, further including:

retrieving a starting candidate list of series;

producing a set of match candidate episodes from the starting candidate list of series;

determining a subset of target episodes from the set of match candidate episodes; and

wherein the corresponding offline media asset is one of the subset of target episodes.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein using the metadata to match includes matching on a video-to-target-episode pair basis.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the metadata is a video attribute of the online media asset and using the metadata to match includes matching the video attribute to a target episode attribute of the corresponding offline media asset.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein a specific attribute may be ignored from a specific asset provider.

12. The method of claim 10, further including:

normalizing one or more of the following;

the video attribute, the target episode attribute.

13. The method of claim 10, further including:

enriching one or more of the following;

the video attribute, the target episode attribute.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein using the metadata to match includes applying rules that reject or accept a match using a predicate and an attribute.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the predicate includes one or more of the following:

a distance, an equality, a intersection, a similarity and a Levenshtein similarity.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the using of the distance includes interpreting play duration.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the using of the similarity includes interpreting Roman numerals.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein rejection rules are applied before acceptance rules.

19. A system comprising:

a processor configured to;

receive an address for an online media asset, the online media asset including at least one of audio or video;

receive a metadata associated with the online media asset, wherein the metadata includes an asset attribute;

identify whether the asset attribute is a strong signal attribute, wherein strong signal attributes include a list of cast or a list of crew;

and

use the metadata at least in part by prioritizing strong signal attributes over weaker signal attributes to match the online media asset to a corresponding offline media asset, the offline media asset including at least one of audio or video;

and

a memory coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions.

20. A tangible computer readable storage disk or storage device comprising computer instructions that, when executed, cause at least one processor to at least:

receiving an address for an online media asset, the online media asset including at least one of audio or video;

receiving a metadata associated with the online media asset, wherein the metadata includes an asset attribute;

identifying whether the asset attribute is a strong signal attribute, wherein strong signal attributes include a list of cast or a list of crew; and

using the metadata at least in part by prioritizing strong signal attributes over weaker signal attributes to match the online media asset to a corresponding offline media asset, the offline media asset including at least one of audio or video.