System and method of dynamically generating index information

• US 8,402,358 B2
• Filed: 12/18/2009
• Issued: 03/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Thryv, Inc. (Mudrick Capital Management LP)
• Original Assignee: Supermedia LLC (Mudrick Capital Management LP)
• Inventors: Knauft, Christopher L., Franklin, Martin
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Maikhanh
• Application Number:
  US12/641,942
• Publication Number:
  US 20100100551A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,187 Days
• Field of Search: 715200-205, 715/234, 715/241, 715/242, 715/249, 715/254, 715/255, 715/256, 715/259, 715/741, 715/742, 715/743, 715/760, 707/705, 707/706, 707/711, 707/741, 707/805, 707/913, 707/914, 707/915, 707/916, 707/917, 707/999.001, 707/E17.002, 707/E17.013, 707/E17.083, 707/E17.123, 713/166
• US Class Current: 715/205
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/313 Selection or weighting of terms for indexing
• 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: Y10S 707/99942 Manipulating data structure, e.g. compression, compaction, compilation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface

Abstract

A client and one or more information retrieval (IR) engines, such as a search engine, may be in communication with each other via a network. A computer may read index information associated with at least a portion of an audiovisual object, the index information structured to be used in an index database of a search engine system. The computer may obfuscate at least a portion of the index information so that the intelligibility of the contents of the index information is reduced, and may transmit at least some of the obfuscated index information to the search engine system.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

reading, in a computer, index information associated with at least a portion of an audiovisual object, the index information structured to be used in an index database of a search engine system;

obfuscating, in the computer, at least a portion of the index information so that the intelligibility of the contents of the index information is reduced, the obfuscating including at least one of replacing at least a subset of the index information with randomly selected information, inserting random information into the index information, and randomizing an order of the index information; and

transmitting at least some of the obfuscated index information to the search engine system,

wherein the audiovisual object is a secure audiovisual object that is configured to prevent search engines systems from having full access to the audiovisual object.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating an electronic document that includes at least a portion of the obfuscated index information.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising customizing the electronic document based at least in part upon indexing characteristics of one or more search engine systems.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein transmitting at least some of the obfuscated index information to the search engine system includes transmitting the electronic document.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the audiovisual object includes at least one of a bitmap image, music, a multimedia presentation, and a streaming media file.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising converting at least a portion of the audiovisual object into the index information.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein converting at least a portion of the audiovisual object into index information includes at least one of identifying one or more words in the lyrics of music and reading closed-captioned information that is associated with the audiovisual object.

8. A computer server including a processor configured to execute computer-executable instructions, the computer server configured to:

read index information associated with at least a portion of an audiovisual object, the index information structured to be used in the index database of a search engine system;

obfuscate at least a portion of the index information so that the intelligibility of the contents of the index information is reduced, the obfuscating including at least one of replacing at least a subset of the index information with randomly selected information, inserting random information into the index information, and randomizing an order of the index information; and

transmit at least some of the obfuscated index information to the search engine system,

wherein the audiovisual object is a secure audiovisual object that is configured to prevent search engines systems from having full access to the audiovisual object.

9. The computer server of claim 8, further configured to generate an electronic document that includes at least a portion of the obfuscated index information.

10. The computer server of claim 9, further configured to customize the electronic document based at least in part upon indexing characteristics of one or more search engine systems.

11. The computer server of claim 9, further configured to transmit at least some of the obfuscated index information to the search engine system by transmitting the electronic document.

12. The computer server of claim 8, wherein the audiovisual object includes at least one of a bitmap image, music, a multimedia presentation, and a streaming media file.

13. The computer server of claim 8, further configured to convert at least a portion of the audiovisual object into the index information.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable medium tangibly embodying computer-executable instructions, the instructions comprising instructions for:

reading, in a computer, index information associated with at least a portion of an audiovisual object, the index information structured to be used in the index database of a search engine system;

obfuscating at least a portion of the index information so that the intelligibility of the contents of the index information is reduced, the obfuscating including at least one of replacing at least a subset of the index information with randomly selected information, inserting random information into the index information, and randomizing an order of the index information; and

transmitting at least some of the obfuscated index information to the search engine system,

wherein the audiovisual object is a secure audiovisual object that is configured to prevent search engines systems from having full access to the audiovisual object.

15. The medium of claim 14, the instructions further comprising instructions for generating an electronic document that includes at least a portion of the obfuscated index information.

16. The medium of claim 15, the instructions further comprising instructions for customizing the electronic document based at least in part upon indexing characteristics of one or more search engine systems.

17. The medium of claim 15, wherein transmitting at least some of the obfuscated index information to the search engine system includes transmitting the electronic document.

18. The medium of claim 14, wherein the audiovisual object includes at least one of a bitmap image, music, a multimedia presentation, and a streaming media file.

19. The medium of claim 14, further comprising converting at least a portion of the audiovisual object into the index information.