Site Directed Management of Audio Components of Uploaded Video Files

• US 20150154385A1
• Filed: 09/13/2012
• Published: 06/04/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/03/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Chastagnol, Franck, Karunamurthy, Vijay, Liu, Matthew, Maxcy, Christopher
• Granted Patent: US 9,336,367 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of identifying and replacing unlicensed audio content in video files, the method comprising:

storing a plurality of video files at a video hosting website, each video file including audio content;

selecting, by a computer, a video file from the plurality of video files for processing for unlicensed audio content;

processing audio content of the selected video file to determine whether the audio content thereof is unlicensed for use on the video hosting website;

responsive to the audio content being an unlicensed audio content;

providing to a user that uploaded the video to the video hosting website a list of selectable licensed audio files, wherein the selectable licensed audio files are audio files that are licensed for use on the video hosting website;

receiving a selection of a licensed audio file from the list of selectable licensed audio files from the user;

replacing the audio content included in the video file with the user selected licensed audio file; and

publishing the video file including the user selected licensed audio file on the video hosting website.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein replacing the audio content comprises:

removing the audio content from the video file; and

inserting the selected licensed audio file into the video file.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

displaying a video playback page for the video file including the user selected licensed audio file;

displaying attribution information for the user selected licensed audio file on the video playback page; and

displaying on the video playback page a link to an e-commerce site from which the selected licensed audio file can be purchased.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the attribution information comprises at least one of a name of an artist associated with the user selected licensed audio file, an album associated with the user selected licensed audio file, and a name of a song associated with the user selected licensed audio file.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

executing an audio replacement tool that displays the list of selectable licensed audio files responsive to the audio content being an unlicensed audio content.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein executing the audio replacement tool further comprises:

executing the audio replacement tool as a hosted application on the video hosting website.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein executing an audio replacement tool comprises:

executing the audio replacement tool as a client application of a client device of the user.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the audio replacement tool provides access only to audio content files licensed for use on the video hosting website.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein the audio replacement tool allows a selection of only a single licensed audio file to replace the unlicensed audio content in the video file.

10. The method of claim 5, wherein the audio replacement tool allows a selection of a plurality of licensed audio files to replace the unlicensed audio content in the video file, and to mix the selected plurality of licensed audio files.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

responsive to the audio content being an unlicensed audio content, notifying the user that uploaded the video to the video hosting website of the unlicensed audio content.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein processing the audio content comprises:

storing file signatures of licensed audio content from known content owners;

generating a file signature from the video file containing the audio content; and

matching the file signature with the file signatures of licensed audio content from known content owners.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing a preview of the selected licensed audio file responsive to receiving the selection of the licensed audio file; and

receiving an instruction from the user to replace the audio content included in the video file with the selected licensed audio file.

14. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer executable code for identifying and replacing unlicensed audio content in video files, the code when executed performs steps comprising:

storing a plurality of video files at a video hosting website, each video file including audio content;

selecting, by a computer, a video file from the plurality of video files for processing for unlicensed audio content;

processing audio content of the selected video file to determine whether the audio content thereof is unlicensed for use on the video hosting website;

responsive to the audio content being an unlicensed audio content;

providing to a user that uploaded the video to the video hosting website a list of selectable licensed audio files, wherein the selectable licensed audio files are audio files that are licensed for use on the video hosting website;

receiving a selection of a licensed audio file from the list of selectable licensed audio files from the user;

replacing the audio content included in the video file with the user selected licensed audio file; and

publishing the video file including the user selected licensed audio file on the video hosting website.

15. The computer program product of claim 14, further comprising:

executing an audio replacement tool that displays the list of selectable licensed audio files responsive to the audio content being an unlicensed audio content.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein executing an audio replacement tool comprises:

executing the audio replacement tool as a client application of a client device of the user.

17. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein the code when executed performs further steps comprising:

providing a preview of the selected licensed audio file responsive to receiving the selection of the licensed audio file; and

receiving an instruction from the user to replace the audio content included in the video file with the selected licensed audio file.

18. A computer system for identifying and replacing unlicensed audio content in video files, the computer system comprising:

a computer processor;

a computer-readable storage medium comprising executable code, the code when executed by the computer processor performs steps comprising;

storing a plurality of video files at a video hosting website, each video file including audio content;

selecting, by a computer, a video file from the plurality of video files for processing for unlicensed audio content;

processing audio content of the selected video file to determine whether the audio content thereof is unlicensed for use on the video hosting website;

responsive to the audio content being an unlicensed audio content;

providing to a user that uploaded the video to the video hosting website a list of selectable licensed audio files, wherein the selectable licensed audio files are audio files that are licensed for use on the video hosting website;

receiving a selection of a licensed audio file from the list of selectable licensed audio files from the user;

replacing the audio content included in the video file with the user selected licensed audio file; and

publishing the video file including the user selected licensed audio file on the video hosting website.

19. The computer system of claim 18, wherein the code when executed by the computer processor performs further steps comprising:

executing an audio replacement tool that displays the list of selectable licensed audio files responsive to the audio content being an unlicensed audio content.

20. The computer system of claim 18, wherein the code when executed by the computer processor performs further steps comprising:

providing a preview of the selected licensed audio file responsive to receiving the selection of the licensed audio file; and

receiving an instruction from the user to replace the audio content included in the video file with the selected licensed audio file.