SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTENT ACCESS CONTROL

• US 20100095353A1
• Filed: 10/09/2008
• Published: 04/15/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: R2 Solutions LLC (Acacia Research Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: O'Sullivan, Joseph, Churchill, Elizabeth F., Athsani, Athellina
• Granted Patent: US 8,763,087 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/4
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• 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

A system and method for managing access to content is provided. One example embodiment provides for a method including acts of identifying a filter of content based at least in part on the preferences a user and a subject presented in the content and presenting the content using the filter to the user. Another example embodiment provides for a system that includes a controller configured to identify a filter of content based on preferences of a user, to present content using the identified filter and to update the preferences of the user based on feedback from the user and the subjects presented in the content.

Claims

1. A method for providing content to a plurality of users, each user of the plurality of users having preferences to subjects presented in the content, the method comprising:

identifying a filter of the content based at least in part on the preferences of at least one user and at least one subject presented in the content;

presenting the content using the filter to the at least one user;

receiving, from the at least one user, an indication of a preference of the at least one user to the presented content; and

updating the preferences of the at least one user based at least in part on the indication and the at least one subject.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein identifying the filter includes identifying the filter based at least in part on the filter being configured to include the at least one subject.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein identifying the filter includes identifying the filter based at least in part on the filter being configured to exclude the at least one subject.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein identifying the filter includes identifying a filter that is configured to allow an indicated user of the plurality of users to receive the content and wherein presenting the content using the filter includes presenting the content using the filter to the indicated user of the plurality of users.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein identifying the filter that is configured to allow the indicated user of the plurality of users to receive the content includes identifying a filter that is configured to allow any of the plurality of users associated with indicated geo-based data to receive the content.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein identifying the filter includes identifying a filter that is configured to allow an indicated user group to receive the content and wherein presenting the content using the filter includes presenting the content using the filter to the indicated user group.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein presenting the content using the filter includes presenting a region of an image.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein presenting the content using the filter includes presenting a subset of frames included in a video.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein presenting the content using the filter includes presenting a frequency range in audio data.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein presenting the content using the filter includes presenting an indicated alphabet of textual data.

11. The method according to claim 1, further comprising indicating, by the at least one user, the preferences of the at least one user.

12. The method according to claim 1, further comprising indicating, by a preference engine, the preferences of the at least one user based on other information regarding the at least one user.

13. The method according to claim 1, further comprising creating the filter by at least one second user.

14. The method according to claim 13, further comprising indicating, by the at least one second user, that the filter matches at least one preference of the at least one user.

15. The method according to claim 13, further comprising indicating, by a preference engine, that the filter matches at least one preference of the at least one user.

16. The method according to claim 13, further comprising indicating, by a producer of the content, that the at least one user is allowed to receive content using the filter and wherein identifying the filter includes identifying the filter based at least in part on the at least one user being authorized to use the filter.

17. The method according to claim 16, wherein indicating, by the producer of the content, includes indicating that any of the plurality of users associated with identified geo-based data is allowed to receive content.

18. The method according to claim 1, further comprising uploading, by a producer, the content to a content server.

19. A system for providing a portion of content to a user comprising:

a computer readable medium configured to store preferences of the user to subjects presented in content;

a first input configured to receive an indication of a user'"'"'s preference to subjects presented in the content;

an output configured to provide filtered content to the user;

a controller coupled to the computer readable medium, the first input and the output and configured to identify a filter based at least in part on the preferences of the user, to present the filtered content using the identified filter and to update the preferences of the user based on the indication and the subjects presented.

20. The system according to claim 19, wherein the subjects presented include at least one person.

21. The system according to claim 19, wherein the controller is further configured to implement a preference engine arranged to record the preferences of the user based on information concerning the user.

22. The system according to claim 19, further comprising a second input configured to receive the content from a producer.

23. The system according to claim 22, wherein the controller is further configured to arrange the preference engine to record that the filtered content matches at least one preference of the user.