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Method and system for assessing copyright fees based on the content being copied

  • US 7,885,426 B2
  • Filed: 09/26/2006
  • Issued: 02/08/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2006
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A system for assessing copyright fees based on the content being copied, comprising:

  • a processor;

    a scanning module operable to scan a document comprising at least one page;

    a content identifying module operable to identify a content on each scanned page of the document and comprising an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine operable to extract a stream of text from each scanned page of the document; and

    a copyright holder identifying module operable to identify a copyright holder of the identified content;

    wherein the identifying a copyright holder of the identified content comprises;

    processing the stream of text into contiguous text segments;

    forming a separate query for each of the contiguous text segments; and

    searching a copyrighted content database for matching copyrighted content based on the query;

    wherein the processing the stream of text into contiguous text segments is based on textual coherence determined in accordance with linguistic analysis of the scanned text.

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