Method and system for determining content treatment

• US 10,242,415 B2
• Filed: 11/27/2012
• Issued: 03/26/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Digimarc Corporation
• Original Assignee: Digimarc Corporation
• Inventors: Davis, Bruce L, Conwell, William Y
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Neha
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hale, Tim B
• Application Number:
  US13/686,541
• Publication Number:
  US 20130085825A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,310 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/08 Payment architectures
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/22 Payment schemes or models
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/18 Legal services
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/184 Intellectual property management
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23418 involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics television picture signal circuitry for scene change detection H04N5/147; filtering for image enhancement G06T5/00; methods or arrangements for recognising scenes G06V20/00; arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2541 Rights Management protecting software against unauthorised usage in a vending or licensing environment G06F21/10; security in data switching network management H04L41/28; security management or policies for network security H04L63/20; access security in wireless networks H04W12/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25841 involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; arrangements for identifying locations of receiving stations in broadcast systems H04H60/51; location of the user terminal in data switching networks H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25891 being end-user preferences retrieval of video data in a video database based on user preferences G06F16/739; arrangements for recognizing users' preferences H04H60/46; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8352 involving content or source identification data, e.g. Unique Material Identifier [UMID]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8355 involving usage data, e.g. number of copies or viewings allowed
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8358 involving watermark protecting executable software by watermarking G06F21/16; image watermarking in general G06T1/0021; watermarks inserted in still images for transmission purposes H04N1/32144; inserting watermarks during video coding H04N19/467
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8405 represented by keywords

Abstract

Content uploaded to a video distribution service is analyzed to determine if a portion matches part of any reference work. If a match is found, treatment of the uploaded content is determined based on stored rule data, and based on one or more factors. These factors can include, e.g., the length of the matching portion, the part of the reference work from which the matching portion was apparently copied, the confidence of the match, the popularity of the uploaded content (or of the reference work), the geography from which the content was uploaded (or the geography to which it is to be downloaded), etc. Further determinations may be made by human evaluators (including crowd-source approaches). A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

providing an ingest server interface to receive visual or audio entertainment content uploaded to a first party'"'"'s video service for distribution from the service to content viewers;

storing data associated with the uploaded content;

deriving with one or more configured electronic processors fingerprint data from the data associated with the uploaded content, in which said fingerprint data comprises one or more hash(es);

analyzing with one or more configured electronic processors the fingerprint data derived from the data associated with the uploaded content, and fingerprint data corresponding to reference content, to identify a portion of the uploaded content suspected as being derived from a work of reference content;

identifying stored rule data to govern treatment of the uploaded content, from among plural sets of stored rule data, said identifying being based on said work of reference content, or based on a proprietor of said work of reference content;

based on information determined by said analyzing, determining plural factors including;

(a) a length of said portion of the uploaded content that was derived from said work of reference content, and (b) from what part of said work of reference content from a plurality of different parts of said work of reference content was said portion of the uploaded content derived, said determining yield determined plural factors; and

then

determining an action to take concerning the uploaded content, based on said determined plural factors and also based on the identified stored rule data, in which the determined action also depends on a geographic location of a user that uploaded the content to the video service or that requested download of the content from the video service;

wherein the determined action comprises an action selected from the list;

(i) notifying a proprietor of said work of reference content about the uploaded content, (ii) preventing the uploaded content from being distributed from the video service to content viewers, and (iii) sharing revenue generated from advertising presented to content viewers in connection with the uploaded content; and

implementing the determined action with one or more processors of a video distribution server.

2. The method of claim 1 in which determining a length of said portion comprises determining a length of said portion in time.

3. The method of claim 1 in which determining a length of said portion comprises determining a length of said portion as a fraction of the length of said work of reference content.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein:

in a first circumstance, the determined action comprises notifying a work of reference content proprietor about the uploaded content;

in a second circumstance, the determined action comprises preventing the uploaded content from being distributed from the video service to content viewers; and

in a third circumstance, the determined action comprises sharing, with a work of reference content proprietor, revenue generated from advertising presented to content viewers in connection with the uploaded content.