Blocking of Unlicensed Audio Content in Video Files on a Video Hosting Website

• US 20110289598A1
• Filed: 08/05/2011
• Published: 11/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/03/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Karunamurthy, Vijay, Maxcy, Christopher, Chastagnol, Franck, Liu, Matthew
• Application Number:
  US13/204,248
• Publication Number:
  US 20110289598A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/28
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/433 using audio data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/64 Browsing; Visualisation therefor generation of a list or set of audio data G06F16/638
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/686 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title or artist information, time, location or usage information, user ratings
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7867 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title and artist information, manually generated time, location and usage information, user ratings
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/1015 to users
• 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 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/233 Processing of audio elementary streams monitoring, identification or recognition of audio in broadcast systems H04H60/58
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4542 Blocking scenes or portions of the received content, e.g. censoring scenes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8545 for generating interactive applications
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/914 Video
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/916 Audio
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/944 Business related

Abstract

A system, method and various software tools enable a video hosting website to automatically identified unlicensed audio content in video files uploaded by users, and initiate a process by which the user can replace the unlicensed content with licensed audio content. An audio replacement tool is provided that enables the user to permanently mute the original, unlicensed audio content of a video file, or select a licensed audio file from a collection of licensed audio, and insert the selected in place of the original audio. Where a video file includes unlicensed audio, the video hosting website provides access to video files to a client device, along with an indication to the client device to mute the audio during playback of the video.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for storing video files on a video hosting website, the video files containing audio content, the method executed by a computer and comprising:

receiving a video file uploaded from a user at a video hosting website, the video file including audio content;

determining whether the audio content included in the video file is an unlicensed audio content owned by a content owner other than the user that uploaded the video file;

responsive to the audio content being an unlicensed audio content, determining the content owner'"'"'s unlicensed use policy; and

responsive to the unlicensed use policy, storing the video file with an indication to implement the unlicensed use policy upon playback.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the unlicensed use policy describes muting the audio of the video upon playback.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the unlicensed use policy describes sharing revenue associated with the playback with the content owner.

4. A video hosting website, comprising:

an ingest server computer system configured to receive an uploaded video file from a client device of a user, the video file containing audio content;

a rights management computer system configured to;

receive the uploaded video file;

determine whether the audio content included in the video file is an unlicensed audio content belonging to a content owner other than the user that uploaded the video file;

determine the content owner'"'"'s unlicensed use policy; and

store the video file with an indication to implement the unlicensed use policy upon playback.

5. The video hosting website of claim 4, wherein the unlicensed policy describes muting the audio of the video file upon playback.

6. The video hosting website of claim 4, wherein the unlicensed policy describes sharing revenue with the content owner.

7. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising executable code, the code when executed by a computer processor performs operations comprising:

receiving a video file uploaded from a user at a video hosting website, the video file including audio content;

determining whether the audio content included in the video file is an unlicensed audio content owned by a content owner other than the user that uploaded the video file;

responsive to the audio content being an unlicensed audio content, determining the content owner'"'"'s unlicensed use policy;

responsive to the unlicensed use policy, storing the video file with an indication to implement the unlicensed use policy upon playback.

8. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the unlicensed use policy describes muting the audio of the video upon playback.

9. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the unlicensed use policy describes sharing revenue with the content owner associated with the playback.