Content monitoring and host compliance evaluation

• US 20080059536A1
• Filed: 08/29/2006
• Published: 03/06/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lemon, Inc. (Gen Digital Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Attributor Corporation (Digimarc Corporation)
• Inventors: Brock, James L., Pitkow, James E.
• Granted Patent: US 8,738,749 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/200
• 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 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• 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: G06F 2221/2101 Auditing as a secondary aspect
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2105 Dual mode as a secondary aspect
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/20 for managing network security; network security policies in general filtering policies H04L63/0227

Abstract

Evaluating content is disclosed. Evaluating includes determining a host policy associated with one or more host policy rules, wherein the host policy specifies one or more conditions under which the content may be hosted, automatically assessing compliance with the one or more host policy rules based at least in part on a context associated with the use of the content, and combining the compliance assessments to make a compliance evaluation.

Claims

1. A method of evaluating content, including:

determining a host policy associated with one or more host policy rules, wherein the host policy specifies one or more conditions under which the content may be hosted;

automatically assessing compliance with the one or more host policy rules based at least in part on a context associated with the use of the content; and

combining the compliance assessments to make a compliance evaluation.

2. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the compliance evaluation includes a determination of whether the controlled content is compliant with the host policy.

3. A method as recited in claim 1, further including receiving the content and assessing compliance with the one or more host policy rules before allowing the content to be hosted.

4. A method as recited in claim 1, further including receiving the content and determining whether to allow the content to be hosted based on the compliance evaluation.

5. A method as recited in claim 1, further including rejecting the content based on the compliance evaluation.

6. A method as recited in claim 1, further including removing the content based on the compliance evaluation.

7. A method as recited in claim 1, further including contacting a user associated with the content.

8. A method as recited in claim 1, further including removing the content if a response is not received from a user associated with the content.

9. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein one of the host policy rules prohibits hosting content associated with pornography.

10. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein one of the host policy rules prohibits hosting content associated with profanity.

11. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein one of the host policy rules prohibits hosting content that is considered objectionable.

12. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the context includes a compliance factor.

13. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein assessing includes computing one or more non-compliance scores.

14. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the context includes the presence or type of advertising.

15. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the context includes the presence or type of attribution.

16. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the context includes a technical factor.

17. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the context includes reputation information.

18. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein assessing is based at least in part on a usage rule.

19. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein assessing is based at least in part on a host policy.

20. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein assessing is based at least in part on an Online Service Provider (OSP) policy.

21. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein assessing is based at least in part on a legal rule.

22. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein combining includes combining one or more non-compliance scores.

23. A system for evaluating content, including:

a processor configured to;

determine a host policy associated with one or more host policy rules, wherein the host policy specifies one or more conditions under which the content may be hosted;

automatically assess compliance with the one or more host policy rules based at least in part on a context associated with the use of the content; and

combining the compliance assessments to make a compliance evaluation; and

a memory coupled with the processor, wherein the memory provides the processor with instructions.

24. A computer program product for evaluating content, the computer program product being embodied in a computer readable medium and comprising computer instructions for:

determining a host policy associated with one or more host policy rules, wherein the host policy specifies one or more conditions under which the content may be hosted;

automatically assessing compliance with the one or more host policy rules based at least in part on a context associated with the use of the content; and

combining the compliance assessments to make a compliance evaluation.