Content monitoring and compliance enforcement

• US 20080059426A1
• Filed: 08/29/2006
• Published: 03/06/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lemon, Inc. (Gen Digital Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Attributor Corporation (Digimarc Corporation)
• Inventors: Brock, James L., Pitkow, James E.
• Granted Patent: US 8,010,511 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/3
• 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

Responding to a use of controlled content is disclosed. Responding includes receiving an indication of the use of the controlled content including a context of the use of the controlled content, automatically determining using the context an engagement action for responding to the use, and automatically initiating the engagement action.

Claims

1. A method of responding to a use of controlled content, including:

receiving an indication of the use of the controlled content including a context of the use of the controlled content;

automatically determining using the context an engagement action for responding to the use; and

automatically initiating the engagement action.

2. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the context includes information associated with a user of the controlled content.

3. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the context includes information associated with usage rules associated with the controlled content.

4. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the context includes compliance information associated with the use of the controlled content.

5. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the context includes technical information associated with the use of the controlled content.

6. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the context includes reputation information.

7. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the context includes negation information.

8. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the context includes information associated with a common pool of data.

9. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the context includes information associated with a host policy.

10. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein an entity associated with an owner of the controlled content receives the indication of the use of the controlled content.

11. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein an entity associated with a host receives the indication of the use of the controlled content.

12. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein initiating the engagement action includes sending a communication to a user of the controlled content.

13. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the engagement action includes a request or demand for removal of matching content that uses the controlled content.

14. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the engagement action includes a request or demand for modification of matching content that uses the controlled content.

15. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the engagement action includes a request or demand for modification of matching content that uses the controlled content, wherein the modification includes adding attribution.

16. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the engagement action includes automatically removing matching content that uses the controlled content.

17. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the engagement action includes sending reputation information.

18. A system for responding to a use of controlled content, including:

a processor configured to;

receive an indication of the use of the controlled content including a context of the use of the controlled content;

automatically determine using the context an engagement action for responding to the use; and

automatically initiate the engagement action; and

a memory coupled with the processor, wherein the memory provides the processor with instructions.

19. A computer program product for responding to a use of controlled content, the computer program product being embodied in a computer readable medium and comprising computer instructions for:

receiving an indication of the use of the controlled content including a context of the use of the controlled content;

automatically determining using the context an engagement action for responding to the use; and

automatically initiating the engagement action.