Utilization of copyright media in second generation web content

• US 20080235213A1
• Filed: 12/31/2007
• Published: 09/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: PicApp Technologies Ltd. (Brightcom Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: PicScout (Israel) LTD. (Getty Images Incorporated)
• Inventors: Gura, Eyal
• Application Number:
  US12/003,757
• Publication Number:
  US 20080235213A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/5
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/435 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

Content provision apparatus for suggesting media content from a media database to augment new textual content being published as a blog or the like, comprises: a text retrieval unit for retrieving new textual content over a network; a text analysis unit for analyzing the retrieved textual content; a search unit for using the analyzing of the retrieved textual content to search the media database to find media content suitable for the new textual content; and a dispatch unit for dispatching to an author of the text retrieval unit a suggestion for augmenting the new textual content. The suggestion is typically in the form of an email but alternatively may be sent using an RSS feed or via a comment for the blog. Preferably the media content can be pasted straight into the blog. A feature allows the content to carry advertising as a pop up label or link, and the advertising fee pays for the media usage rights.

Claims

1. Content provision apparatus for suggesting media content from a media database to augment new textual content, the apparatus comprising:

a text retrieval unit configured for retrieving new textual content over a network;

a text analysis unit associated with the text retrieval unit, configured for analyzing the retrieved textual content;

a search unit configured for using the analyzing of the retrieved textual content to search the media database to find media content suitable for said new textual content; and

a dispatch unit configured for dispatching to an author of said text retrieval unit a suggestion for augmenting said new textual content, said suggestion comprising said suitable media content.

2. Content provision apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said search unit is further configured to make use of user profile data to improve said searching of said media database.

3. Content provision apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said search unit is further configured to make use of audience profile data to improve said searching of said media database.

4. Content provision apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said text retrieval unit comprises a syndication feed.

5. Content provision apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said text retrieval unit comprises a web crawler.

6. Content provision apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said text retrieval unit comprises a networked connection to a server being a site on which said new textual content is published.

7. Content provision apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said text analysis unit comprises a keyword search unit for searching said retrieved text for keywords useful for searching said database.

8. Content provision apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said text analysis unit comprises a semantic analysis unit for semantically understanding said retrieved text.

9. Content provision apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said media database comprises media items associated with advertisement sites such that upon selection of said media items by an end user a payment action is triggered.

10. Content provision apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising a digital rights management server configured to manage said payment action to ensure that a right holder of said media item is compensated for use thereof.

11. Content provision apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said dispatch unit is configured to package said suggestion as an email, said email being configured to allow automatic pasting of said media item into said textual content.

12. Content provision apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said dispatch unit is configured to package said suggestion for sending over a direct link to a server on which said new textual content is being published.

13. Content provision apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said dispatch unit is configured to package said suggestion for sending over a syndication feed to a server on which said new textual content is being published.

14. Content provision apparatus according to claim 11, wherein said media content comprises an association with an advertising site and said email is configured to include said association with said automatic pasting.

15. Content provision apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said media content comprises an association with an advertising site, said association being transferable if said media content is copied from said textual content into other textual content.

16. Content provision method for suggesting media content from a media database to augment new textual content, the method comprising:

retrieving new textual content over a network;

analyzing the retrieved textual content;

using the analyzing of the retrieved textual content to search the media database to find media content suitable for said new textual content; and

dispatching to an author of said text retrieval unit a suggestion for augmenting said new textual content, said suggestion comprising said suitable media content.

17. Content provision method according to claim 16, wherein said text retrieval comprises using a syndication feed.

18. Content provision method according to claim 16, wherein said text retrieval comprises using a web crawler.

19. Content provision method according to claim 16, wherein said text analysis comprises searching said retrieved text for keywords useful for searching said database.

20. Content provision method according to claim 16, wherein said text analysis comprises making a semantic analysis for semantically understanding said retrieved text.

21. Content provision method according to claim 16, wherein said media database comprises media items associated with advertisement sites such that upon selection of said media items by an end user a payment action is triggered.

22. Content provision method according to claim 21, further comprising managing said payment action to ensure that a right holder of said media item is compensated for use thereof.

23. Content provision method according to claim 16, wherein said dispatching comprises packaging said suggestion as an email, said email being configured to allow automatic pasting of said media item into said textual content.

24. Content provision method according to claim 23, wherein said media content comprises an association with an advertising site and said email is configured to include said association with said automatic pasting.