COMPUTERIZED, COPY DETECTION AND DISCRIMINATION APPARATUS AND METHOD

• US 20110173340A1
• Filed: 02/14/2011
• Published: 07/14/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Phillip M. Adams
• Original Assignee: Phillip M. Adams
• Inventors: Adams, Phillip M.
• Granted Patent: US 8,909,733 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/231
• 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]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/105 Arrangements for software license management or administration, e.g. for managing licenses at corporate level
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/16 Program or content traceability, e.g. by watermarking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/184 Intellectual property management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/605 Copy protection
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/606 Traitor tracing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/608 Watermarking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2463/103 applying security measure for protecting copyright
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/08 Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0245 Filtering by information in the payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/1408 by monitoring network traffic monitoring network traffic per se H04L43/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 705/904 Usage protection of distributed files
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 705/908 Software or content usage protection
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 705/911 Copy protection or prevention

Abstract

An engine identifying segments or portions of one source material or source file common to or found in another source material or file. The engine may receive a first data stream in binary form as well as a second stream in binary form. The engine may include a data stream processor or pre-processor programmed to translate the first and second data streams to generate respective first and second processed data streams. The commonality between the first and second processed data streams may be greater than the commonality between the first and second data streams themselves. Also, a comparator may be programmed to compare the first and second process data streams and identify binary segments found in both the first and second processed data streams.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a first data stream in binary form;

a second data stream in binary form;

a data stream processor programmed to translate the first and second data streams to generate respective first and second processed data streams, the commonality between the first and second processed data streams being greater than the commonality between the first and second data streams; and

a comparator programmed to compare the first and second processed data streams and identify binary segments common to both the first and second processed data streams.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the first and second data streams both correspond to one of images, music, text, video, and executables.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein:

the first and second data streams have respective sampling frequencies different from one another;

the first processed data stream comprises at least a portion of the first data stream; and

the second processed data stream comprises at least a portion of the second data stream translated to a sampling frequency common to that of the first processed data stream.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein:

the data stream processor is further programmed to execute at least one method to identify first and second samples selected from the first and second data streams, respectively; and

the data stream processor is further programmed to translate the first and second samples to generate the first and second processed data streams.

5. The system of claim 4, further comprising a user interface programmed to communicate instructions from a user to the data stream processor to select which method of the at least one method is executed by the data stream processor.

6. The system of claim 5, where a first method of the at least one method comprises selecting the entire first data stream as the first sample and the entire second data stream as the second sample.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein first and second data streams comprise executable code.

8. The system of claim 7, where a second method of the at least one method comprises:

executing the first data stream and recording in substantially real time the processing instructions executed thereby as the first sample; and

executing the second data stream and recording in substantially real time the processing instructions executed thereby as the second sample.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein:

the first processed data stream comprises the first data stream translated into register transfer language; and

the second processed data stream comprises the second data stream translated into register transfer language.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein:

the first processed data stream comprises a de-optimized version of the first data stream; and

the second processed data stream comprises a de-optimized version of the second data stream.

11. The system of claim 10, further comprising a post-identification data stream processor programmed to convert the binary segments into digital sound recording files.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the first and second data streams have respective sampling frequencies different from one another;

the first processed data stream comprises at least a portion of the first data stream; and

the second processed data stream comprises at least a portion of the second data stream translated to a sampling frequency common to that of the first processed data stream.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the first processed data stream comprises at least a portion of a substantially real time recording of the processing instructions executed by executing the first data stream; and

the second processed data stream comprises at least a portion of a substantially real time recording of the processing instructions executed by executing the second data stream.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the first processed data stream comprises the first data stream translated into register transfer language; and

the second processed data stream comprises the second data stream translated into register transfer language.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the first processed data stream comprises a de-optimized version of the first data stream; and

the second processed data stream comprises a de-optimized version of the second data stream.

16. The system of claim 1, further comprising a post-identification data stream processor programmed to convert the binary segments into digital sound recording files.

17. The system of claim 1, further comprising a user interface programmed to communicate instructions from a user to the comparator to specify a minimum length of the binary segments identified

18. A computer-implemented system comprising:

a first data stream represented in a binary form;

a second data stream represented in a binary form;

a data stream processor programmed to identify a first sample corresponding to the first data stream and a second sample corresponding to the second data stream;

the data stream processor further programmed to translate the first and second samples to generate respective first and second processed data streams corresponding thereto, wherein the commonality shared between the first and second processed data streams being greater than the commonality shared between the first and second data samples;

a comparator programmed to compare the first and second processed data streams and identify binary segments common to both the first and second processed data streams; and

a post-identification data stream processor programmed to convert the binary segments into digital sound recording files.

19. The system of claim 18, further comprising a user interface programmed to communicate instructions from a user to the comparator to specify a minimum length of the binary segments identified.

20. A system comprising:

a first data stream in binary form;

a second data stream in binary form;

a data stream processor programmed to identify a first sample corresponding to the first data stream and a second sample corresponding to the second data stream;

the data stream processor further programmed to translate the first and second samples to generate respective first and second processed data streams, the first and second processed data streams sharing a commonality greater than that shared by the first and second data samples;

a comparator programmed to compare the first and second processed data streams and identify binary segments therein having at least a minimum length and common to both the first and second processed data streams;

a user interface programmed to communicate instructions from a user to the comparator to specify the minimum length of the binary segments identified;

a post-identification data stream processor programmed to convert the binary segments into digital sound recording files; and

the post-identification data stream processor further programmed to prepare at least one copyright application petitioning copyright protection for at least one of the digital sound recording files.