ESTABLISHING USAGE POLICIES FOR RECORDED EVENTS IN DIGITAL LIFE RECORDING

• US 20090177700A1
• Filed: 12/31/2008
• Published: 07/09/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/03/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Wilson, John David, Grim, Clifton E. III, Stevens, Mark B., Ward, Gary A., Marzke, Rex Edward
• Granted Patent: US 9,164,995 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/433 using audio data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/436 using biological or physiological data of a human being, e.g. blood pressure, facial expression, gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/437 Administration of user profiles, e.g. generation, initialisation, adaptation, distribution
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/487 using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/489 using time information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/78 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/3027 used signal is digitally coded
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal

Abstract

The illustrative embodiments described herein provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for managing usage policies for data recorded with a digital life recorder. A usage profile sensor determines whether a broadcast of a usage profile is detected. A usage profile sensor receives the broadcast of the usage profile in response to a first determination that the broadcast of the usage profile is detected, wherein the usage profile comprises a usage policy. A usage profile processor determines whether the usage profile is currently being tracked. A usage profile processor records a start date, a start time, and usage profile information into a tracking table in response to a second determination that the usage profile is not currently being tracked.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for managing usage policies for data recorded with a digital life recorder, the computer implemented method comprising:

determining whether a broadcast of a usage profile is detected;

responsive to a first determination that the broadcast of the usage profile is detected, receiving the broadcast of the usage profile, wherein the usage profile comprises a usage policy;

determining, by a processor, whether the usage profile is currently being tracked; and

responsive to a second determination that the usage profile is not currently being tracked, recording a start date, a start time, and usage profile information into a tracking table.

2. The computer implemented method of claim 1 further comprising:

responsive to the second determination that the usage profile is being tracked, continuing tracking the usage profile.

3. The computer implemented method of claim 1 wherein the usage profile is associated with a captured data.

4. The computer implemented method of claim 1 further comprising:

responsive to the first determination that the broadcast of the usage profile is not detected, determining if the usage profile information is in the tracking table;

responsive to a third determination that the usage profile information is in the tracking table, recording an end date and an end time into the tracking table; and

saving the start date, the start time, the usage profile information, the end date, and the end time to a digital life recorder storage.

5. The computer implemented method of claim 4 further comprising:

responsive to saving the start date, the start time, the usage profile information, the end date, and the end time to a digital life recorder storage, removing the start date, the start time, the usage profile, the end date, and the end time from the tracking table.

6. The computer implemented method of claim 1 wherein determining whether a usage profile is being tracked further comprises:

detecting the start date, the start time, and the usage profile in the tracking table.

7. A computer program product comprising:

a computer usable medium including computer usable program code for managing digital life recording data, said computer program product comprising;

computer usable program code for determining whether a broadcast of a usage profile is detected;

responsive to a first determination that the broadcast of the usage profile is detected, computer usable program code for receiving the broadcast of the usage profile, wherein the usage profile comprises a usage policy;

computer usable program code for determining whether the usage profile is currently being tracked; and

responsive to a second determination that the usage profile is not currently being tracked, computer usable program code for recording a start date, a start time, and usage profile information into a tracking table.

8. The computer program product of claim 7 further comprising:

responsive to the second determination that the usage profile is being tracked, computer usable program code for continuing tracking the usage profile.

9. The computer program product of claim 7 wherein the usage profile is associated with a captured data.

10. The computer program product of claim 7 further comprising:

responsive to the first determination that the broadcast of the usage profile is not detected, computer usable program code for determining if the usage profile information is in the tracking table;

responsive to a third determination that the usage profile information is in the tracking table, computer usable program code for recording an end date and an end time into the tracking table; and

computer usable program code for saving the start date, the start time, the usage profile information, the end date, and the end time to a digital life recorder storage.

11. The computer program product of claim 10 further comprising:

responsive to saving the start date, the start time, the usage profile information, the end date, and the end time to a digital life recorder storage, computer usable program code for removing the start date, the start time, the usage profile information, the end date, and the end time from the tracking table.

12. The computer program product of claim 7 wherein determining whether a usage profile is being tracked further comprises:

detecting the start date, the start time, and the usage profile in the tracking table.

13. An apparatus comprising:

a bus system;

a communications system connected to the bus system;

a memory connected to the bus system, wherein the memory includes computer usable program code; and

a process unit connected to the bus system, wherein the process unit executes the computer usable program code to determine whether a broadcast of a usage profile is detected;

receive the broadcast of the usage profile in response to a first determination that the broadcast of the usage profile is detected, wherein the usage profile comprises a usage policy;

determine whether the usage profile is currently being tracked; and

record a start date, a start time, and usage profile information into a tracking table in response to a second determination that the usage profile is not currently being tracked.

14. The apparatus of claim 13 further comprising:

computer usable program code to continue tracking the usage profile in response to the second determination that the usage profile is being tracked.

15. The apparatus of claim 13 wherein the usage profile is associated with captured data.

16. The apparatus of claim 13 further comprising:

computer usable program code to determine if the usage profile information is in the tracking table in response to the first determination that the broadcast of the usage profile is not detected;

computer usable program code to record an end date and an end time into the tracking table in response to a third determination that the usage profile information is in the tracking table; and

computer usable program code to save the start date, the start time, the usage profile information, the end date, and the end time to a digital life recorder storage.

17. The apparatus of claim 16 further comprising:

computer usable program code to remove the start date, the start time, the usage profile information, the end date, and the end time from the tracking table in response to saving the start date, the start time, the usage profile information, the end date, and the end time to a digital life recorder storage.

18. The apparatus of claim 13 wherein determining whether a usage profile is being tracked further comprises:

detecting the start date, the start time, and the usage profile in the tracking table.

19. A usage policy system:

a usage policy, wherein the usage policy is associated with audio data and video data, wherein the audio data and video data that the usage policy is associated with is the audio data and video data that captured the source transmitting the usage policy, and wherein the usage policy contains information on usage rights to the audio data and video data.

20. The usage policy system of claim 19 further comprising:

a digital life recorder, wherein the digital life recorder captures the audio data and the video data; and

a digital life recorder storage, wherein the digital life recorder storage stores the usage policy.