METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR BROADCAST ERROR PROTECTION OF CONTENT ELEMENTS UTILIZING DIGITAL ARTIFACTS

• US 20070256089A1
• Filed: 09/20/2006
• Published: 11/01/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Gula Consulting Limited Liability Company (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Forefront Assets Limited Liability Company (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Putnam, Jon
• Granted Patent: US 8,566,858 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/22
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/14 for monitoring programmes
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/37 for identifying segments of broadcast information, e.g. scenes or extracting programme ID
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/58 of audio determination or detection of speech characteristics in general G10L25/00; speech recognition in general G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/233 Processing of audio elementary streams monitoring, identification or recognition of audio in broadcast systems H04H60/58
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2407 Monitoring of transmitted content, e.g. distribution time, number of downloads arrangements for monitoring programmes for broadcast or for distribution combined with broadcast H04H20/14
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/26258 for generating a list of items to be played back in a given order, e.g. playlist, or scheduling item distribution according to such list retrieval of multimedia data based on playlists G06F16/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8106 involving special audio data, e.g. different tracks for different languages
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• 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 7/08 Systems for the simultaneous or sequential transmission of more than one television signal, e.g. additional information signals, the signals occupying wholly or partially the same frequency band , e.g. by time division H04N7/007 takes precedence

Abstract

Automatically matching local broadcast station copies of commercial content to previously identified content that is centrally attributed to a unique identification code is provided. A local broadcast station receives digital audio and processes the contents into a data profile of 1,024 bits. The data profile is compared with a master database of other content data profiles until an identical match is found. A corresponding commercial identifier is employed to identify the subject content digital audio file to the station'"'"'s Broadcast Production System. The determined commercial identifier is injected as a digital artifact into the carrier of the content digital audio file, and associatively stored with the content digital audio file. During the performance process, the appropriate commercial content digital audio file is sequenced by matching the commercial identifier associated with the digital audio file. A verification of an accurate association between the commercial identifier and the content digital audio is performed by reading the digital audio file and extracting the commercial identifier in its digital artifact form from the body of the digital audio file'"'"'s carrier.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a data file containing at least audio data;

associating the data file with a commercial identifier associated with content within the data file;

storing the commercial identifier in association with the data file; and

when the data file is queued for broadcast transmission over a transmission system, in accordance with a commercial insertion order, reading the data file to verify that the commercial identifier stored in association with the data file corresponds to the commercial identifier contained in an instruction of the corresponding commercial insertion order.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the data file is a commercial advertisement.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the data file is received via the Internet.

4. The method of claim 1, further wherein the commercial identifier is specified in a commercial insertion order received in conjunction with receiving the data file, wherein the commercial insertion order is requesting that the data file be broadcast in accordance with the instructions within the commercial insertion order.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising analyzing the data file to generate a profile of the data file.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the profile is no more than 1024 bits.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein associating further comprises:

comparing the profile to a plurality of authenticated profiles;

determining a match of the profile with one of the plurality of authenticated profiles; and

associating the data file with a commercial identifier associated with the authenticated profile.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

inserting the commercial identifier within the data file.

14. The method of claim 5, wherein the commercial profile is no more than 1024 bits.

9. A system comprising:

a digesting system that processes digital data files to produce a commercial profile;

a matching system that compares the commercial profile with a set of commercial profiles, wherein the matching system identifies a commercial identifier associated with one of the set of commercial profiles matching the commercial profile;

a digital insertion system that inserts the commercial identifier into the digital data file; and

a transmission system that verifies a commercial identifier contained within a digital data file, prior to its broadcast, matches the commercial identifier within an instruction of an insertion order requesting the transmission of the digital data file.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the data file is a commercial advertisement.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the data file is received via the Internet.

12. The system of claim 9, further wherein the commercial identifier is specified in a commercial insertion order requesting that the data file identified with the commercial identifier be broadcast in accordance with the instructions within the commercial insertion order.

13. The system of claim 9, further wherein analyzing the data file to generate a commercial profile of the data file includes demodulating a portion of the data file.

15. A program product comprising a machine-readable medium including program logic embedded therein for causing an apparatus to perform the steps of:

receiving a data file containing at least audio data;

associating the data file with a commercial identifier associated with content within the data file;

storing the commercial identifier in association with the data file; and

when the data file is queued for broadcast transmission over a transmission system, in accordance with a commercial insertion order, reading the data file to verify that the commercial identifier stored in association with the data file corresponds to the commercial identifier contained in an instruction of the corresponding commercial insertion order.

16. A program product according to claim 15, further comprising program logic embedded therein for causing an apparatus to perform the step of:

analyzing the data file to generate a profile of the data file.

17. A program product according to claim 16, further comprising program logic embedded therein for causing an apparatus to perform the step of:

comparing the profile to a plurality of authenticated profiles;

determining a match of the profile with one of the plurality of authenticated profiles; and

associating the data file with a commercial identifier associated with the authenticated profile.

18. A program product according to claim 16, wherein the commercial identifier is specified in a commercial insertion order received in conjunction with receiving the data file, and wherein the commercial insertion order is requesting that the data file be broadcast in accordance with the instructions within the commercial insertion order.