Methods for identifying audio or video content
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- i. receiving user uploaded video or audio content, the video or audio content having been uploaded by a user to a first party'"'"'s social networking site for distribution from the first party'"'"'s social networking site to the public, in which the user uploaded video or audio content has been altered relative to a corresponding version of the user uploaded video or audio content;
ii. processing the user uploaded video or audio content;
iii. generating fingerprints from the processed, user uploaded video or audio content;
iv. identifying reference content, from a universe of reference content, that is a possible match of the user uploaded video or audio content, said identifying being based at least on a generated fingerprint and being performed by a computer system configured to perform such act;
v. providing a computer controlled online interface associated with the first party'"'"'s social networking site through which a result of manual human review of a queue generated by the first party'"'"'s social networking site is obtained, the queue for review by a second party, different than the first party;
vi. providing access to a copy of the user uploaded video or audio content via the queue of the computer controlled online interface;
vii. in response to providing access to the copy of the user uploaded video or audio content via the queue of the computer controlled online interface, obtaining manual human assessment data from the second party through the computer controlled online interface associated with the first party'"'"'s social networking site, the manual human assessment data indicating a result of a comparison of the copy of the user uploaded video or audio content and data associated with the reference content by one or more human reviewer(s);
viii. using the manual human assessment data in concluding that the reference content corresponds with the user uploaded video or audio content; and
ix. controlling distribution of the user uploaded video or audio content from the first party'"'"'s social networking site to the public based on the concluding.
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Abstract
Methods and systems for identifying audio and video entertainment content are provided. Certain shortcomings of fingerprint-based content identification can be redressed through use of human-reviewers in a first party'"'"'s social networking site environment. Access to a copy of a possible fingerprint-based match of user uploaded content is provided to a second party via a queue of an online interface provided by the first party. In response to providing access to the copy of the user uploaded content, manual human assessment data is obtained from the second party through the online interface. The manual human assessment data indicating a result of a comparison of the copy of the user uploaded content and data associated with reference content by one or more human reviewer(s). The manual human assessment data is used in concluding that the reference content corresponds with the user uploaded content.
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1. A method comprising:
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i. receiving user uploaded video or audio content, the video or audio content having been uploaded by a user to a first party'"'"'s social networking site for distribution from the first party'"'"'s social networking site to the public, in which the user uploaded video or audio content has been altered relative to a corresponding version of the user uploaded video or audio content; ii. processing the user uploaded video or audio content; iii. generating fingerprints from the processed, user uploaded video or audio content; iv. identifying reference content, from a universe of reference content, that is a possible match of the user uploaded video or audio content, said identifying being based at least on a generated fingerprint and being performed by a computer system configured to perform such act; v. providing a computer controlled online interface associated with the first party'"'"'s social networking site through which a result of manual human review of a queue generated by the first party'"'"'s social networking site is obtained, the queue for review by a second party, different than the first party; vi. providing access to a copy of the user uploaded video or audio content via the queue of the computer controlled online interface; vii. in response to providing access to the copy of the user uploaded video or audio content via the queue of the computer controlled online interface, obtaining manual human assessment data from the second party through the computer controlled online interface associated with the first party'"'"'s social networking site, the manual human assessment data indicating a result of a comparison of the copy of the user uploaded video or audio content and data associated with the reference content by one or more human reviewer(s); viii. using the manual human assessment data in concluding that the reference content corresponds with the user uploaded video or audio content; and ix. controlling distribution of the user uploaded video or audio content from the first party'"'"'s social networking site to the public based on the concluding. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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8. One or more computer servers associated with a first party'"'"'s social networking site, comprising:
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an input to receive user uploaded video or audio content, the video or audio content having been uploaded by a user to a first party'"'"'s social networking site for distribution from the first party'"'"'s social networking site to the public, in which the user uploaded video or audio content has been altered relative to a corresponding version of the user uploaded video or audio content; one or more processors programmed for; i. processing the user uploaded video or audio content; ii. generating fingerprints from the processed, user uploaded video or audio content; iii. identifying reference content, from a universe of reference content, that is a possible match of the user uploaded video or audio content, said identifying being based at least on a generated fingerprint; iv. providing a computer controlled online interface associated with the first party'"'"'s social networking site through which a result of manual human review of a queue generated by the first party'"'"'s social networking site is obtained, the queue for review by a second party, different than the first party; v. providing access to a copy of the user uploaded video or audio content via the queue of the computer controlled online interface; vi. in response to providing access to the copy of the user uploaded video or audio content via the queue of the computer controlled online interface, obtaining manual human assessment data from the second party through the computer controlled online interface associated with the first party'"'"'s social networking site, the manual human assessment data indicating a result of a comparison of the copy of the user uploaded video or audio content and data associated with the reference content by one or more human reviewer(s); vii. using the manual human assessment data in concluding that the reference content corresponds with the user uploaded video or audio content; and viii. controlling distribution of the user uploaded video or audio content from the first party'"'"'s social networking site to the public based on the concluding. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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14. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions stored thereon to cause one or more processors to perform the following:
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processing user uploaded video or audio content, the video or audio content having been uploaded by a user to a first party'"'"'s social networking site for distribution from the first party'"'"'s social networking site to the public, in which the user uploaded video or audio content has been altered relative to a corresponding version of the user uploaded video or audio content; generating fingerprints from the processed, user uploaded video or audio content; identifying reference content, from a universe of reference content, that is a possible match of the user uploaded video or audio content, said identifying being based at least on a generated fingerprint; providing an computer controlled online interface associated with the first party'"'"'s social networking site through which a result of manual human review of a queue generated by the first party'"'"'s social networking site is obtained, the queue for review by a second party, different than the first party; providing access to a copy of the user uploaded video or audio content via the queue of the computer controlled online interface; in response to providing access to the copy of the user uploaded video or audio content via the queue of the computer controlled online interface, obtaining manual human assessment data from the second party through the computer controlled online interface associated with the first party'"'"'s social networking site, the manual human assessment data indicating a result of a comparison of the copy of the user uploaded video or audio content and data associated with the reference content by one or more human reviewer(s); using the manual human assessment data in concluding that the reference content corresponds with the user uploaded video or audio content; and controlling distribution of the user uploaded video or audio content from the first party'"'"'s social networking site to the public based on the concluding. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 30)
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