Obtaining attribution information for representations

• US 9,418,050 B1
• Filed: 01/09/2013
• Issued: 08/16/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pinterest, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Pinterest, Inc.
• Inventors: Brewster, Kent Stanley
• Primary Examiner(s): Mills, Frank D
• Application Number:
  US13/737,701
• Time in Patent Office: 1,315 Days
• Field of Search: 715/234
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/437 Administration of user profiles, e.g. generation, initialisation, adaptation, distribution
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes

Abstract

This disclosure describes systems and methods that enable attribution information to be obtained and associated with digital items, also referred as representations, as well as enable supplemental information to be associated with the representations. In some implementations, a user may request to use a representation and the system may determine that attribution information is to be obtained from a rights holder and/or provider of the representation. When the attribution information is obtained it is associated with the representation that is available for use by the user.

Claims

1. A computing system, comprising:

one or more processors; and

a memory coupled to the one or more processors and storing program instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to at least;

identify a representation presented on a web page based at least in part on an input from a user;

identify, based at least in part on a representation identifier included in a code of the web page, a provider of the representation;

provide the representation identifier to the provider and request attribution information related to the representation;

receive a response that includes the attribution information from a source other than the user;

determine supplemental information related to an object that is represented in the representation;

include the representation and the supplemental information in a user-created object identifier;

identify a second representation based at least in part on the attribution information, wherein the object is represented in the second representation, and wherein the representation and second representation are different;

replace the representation included in the object identifier with the second representation such that the object identifier includes the second representation; and

send for presentation the second representation for selection and use by the user, the supplemental information, and at least a portion of the attribution information of the object identifier.

2. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the attribution information includes a use restriction relating to a size of the representation.

3. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the attribution information includes a type of the representation or presentation information for presenting the representation.

4. The computing system of claim 1, wherein a provider of the web page and the provider of the representation are a same external source.

5. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the representation is a digital image.

6. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the representation is a digital multimedia.

7. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the supplemental information related to the object represented in the representation includes price information for the object, and wherein the program instructions that when executed by the one or more processors further cause the one or more processors to send the price information for presentation to a second user.

8. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the supplemental information related to the object represented in the representation includes availability information for the object, and wherein the program instructions that when executed by the one or more processors further cause the one or more processors to send the availability information for presentation to a second user.

9. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the program instructions further cause the one or more processors to at least:

update the supplemental information of the object identifier based at least in part on a current geographic location of a second user; and

send for presentation the updated supplemental information.

10. The computing system of claim 1, wherein a source of the web page and a source of the representation are different, and wherein the source of the web page and the provider of the representation are not the user.

11. The computing system of claim 1, further comprising:

determining that the representation is inline linked from the provider prior to providing the representation identifier to the provider, wherein a source of the web page is not the provider.

12. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

under control of one or more computing systems configured with executable instructions,

identifying a representation identifier included in a code of a presentation site;

determining to request information for a representation identified by the representation identifier;

including the representation in a user-created object identifier;

submitting an information request to a provider of the representation;

receiving supplemental information related to an object represented in the representation and attribution information related to the representation;

identifying a second representation based at least in part on the attribution information, wherein the object is represented in the second representation, and wherein the representation and the second representation are different;

replacing the representation included in the object identifier with the second representation such that the object identifier includes the second representation; and

including supplemental information and at least a portion of the attribution information in the user-created object identifier.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, further comprising:

identifying, based at least in part on the representation identifier, a provider of the representation.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 13, wherein identifying, based at least in part on the representation identifier, includes comparing the representation identifier with a provider list to identify the provider.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, further comprising:

identifying that the representation is inline linked from a provider, and wherein the attribution information is received from the provider.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, wherein submitting the information request to a provider includes submitting at least a portion of the representation identifier to an application programming interface of the provider.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, further comprising:

determining to obtain an authorization to use the representation; and

including in the information request, an authorization request.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, further comprising:

receiving a request to include the second representation in the user-created object identifier.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, wherein the supplemental information related to the object represented in the representation includes price information for the object, and wherein the computer-implemented method further comprises sending the price information for presentation to a second user.

20. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, wherein the supplemental information related to an object represented in the representation includes availability information for the object, and wherein the computer-implemented method further comprises sending the availability information for presentation to a second user.

21. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions to respond to an attribution information request for a representation, the instructions when executed by a processor causing the processor to at least:

receive the attribution information request for a representation;

obtain supplemental information related to an object represented in the representation;

obtain from a provider of the representation;

     1) attribution information related to the representation and

     2) a second representation, wherein the object is represented in the second representation, and wherein the representation and the second representation are different;

return the supplemental information;

return an attribution information response, the attribution information response including;

     1) at least a portion of the obtained attribution information related to the representation and

     2) the second representation; and

modify a user-created object identifier such that it includes the second representation, at least a portion of the attribution information, and the supplemental information.

22. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 21, wherein the attribution information request includes a representation identifier.

23. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 21, wherein the attribution information includes at least one of a type of the representation, a dimension for presentation of the representation, a title of the representation, a representation identifier, an identity of a rights holder, or additional information specifying how the representation is to be presented.

24. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 21, wherein the attribution information response includes at least one restriction regarding a presentation of the second representation.

25. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 24, wherein the restriction is provided by a provider of the second representation.

26. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 21, wherein the attribution information response includes at least one restriction that denies use of the representation.

27. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 21, wherein the attribution information response includes at least one restriction that does not allow inline linking to the second representation.