Restoring program information for clips of broadcast programs shared online

• US 9,424,349 B2
• Filed: 05/18/2015
• Issued: 08/23/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pinterest, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Seet, Nicholas, Cahan, Adam
• Primary Examiner(s): ELAHI, SHAN E
• Application Number:
  US14/714,864
• Publication Number:
  US 20150248479A1
• Time in Patent Office: 463 Days
• Field of Search: 375/240.26
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/41 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4387 by the use of playlists
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7844 using original textual content or text extracted from visual content or transcript of audio data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques

Abstract

To restore context information about a clip that was sampled from a broadcast program, the clip is identified by matching a digital fingerprint of the clip against a database of known digital fingerprints taken from broadcast programs. If the clip can be identified, it is then associated with information about the matching broadcast program. The loss of context data about the clip obtained from a broadcast program is thus remedied, enabling media content available online to be more useable for a variety of purposes, such as media searching, automatic broadcast attribution, and targeting advertisements.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

identifying, by a computer, a clip available on an online clip sharing system, the clip containing metadata about the clip and at least a portion of a broadcast program;

obtaining, by the computer, a digital fingerprint for the clip;

matching, by the computer, the digital fingerprint of the clip against a plurality of reference fingerprints to identify the broadcast program in the clip, the reference fingerprints corresponding to a plurality of known broadcast programs;

obtaining, by the computer, program information associated with the identified broadcast program based at least in part on the matching of the digital fingerprint of the clip against the plurality of reference fingerprints;

associating, by the computer, the program information with the clip;

storing, by the computer, the program information in association with the clip in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium;

comparing, by the computer, a portion of the metadata about the clip with the program information;

assigning, by the computer, the metadata as trustworthy if the portion of the metadata about the clip matches the program information;

assigning, by the computer, the metadata as untrustworthy if the portion of the metadata about the clip does not match the program information; and

transmitting, by the computer to a user device for display, a measure of trustworthiness comprising whether the metadata was assigned as trustworthy or untrustworthy.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the metadata comprises keywords.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the metadata comprises specific fields of data.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising obtaining, by the computer, the metadata from the online clip sharing system, the metadata received by the online clip sharing system from a user who uploaded the clip to the online clip sharing system.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising obtaining, by the computer, the metadata from the online clip sharing system, the metadata received by the online clip sharing system from users who have reviewed the clip.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting, by the computer to a system for use in a search algorithm, a measure of trustworthiness comprising whether the metadata was assigned as trustworthy or untrustworthy.

7. A computing device comprising:

a processor;

a storage medium for tangibly storing thereon program logic for execution by the processor, the stored program logic comprising;

identifying logic executed by the processor for identifying a clip available on an online clip sharing system, the clip containing metadata about the clip and at least a portion of a broadcast program;

fingerprint obtaining logic executed by the processor for obtaining a digital fingerprint for the clip;

matching logic executed by the processor for matching the digital fingerprint of the clip against a plurality of reference fingerprints to identify the broadcast program in the clip, the reference fingerprints corresponding to a plurality of known broadcast programs;

program information obtaining logic executed by the processor for obtaining program information associated with the identified broadcast program based at least in part on the matching of the digital fingerprint of the clip against the plurality of reference fingerprints;

program information and clip associating logic executed by the processor for associating the program information with the clip;

storing logic executed by the processor for storing the program information in association with the clip in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium;

comparing logic executed by the processor for comparing a portion of the metadata about the clip with the program information;

trustworthy assigning logic executed by the processor for assigning the metadata as trustworthy if the portion of the metadata about the clip matches the program information;

untrustworthy assigning logic executed by the processor for assigning the metadata as untrustworthy if the portion of the metadata about the clip does not match the program information; and

transmitting logic executed by the processor for transmitting, to a user device for display, a measure of trustworthiness comprising whether the metadata was assigned as trustworthy or untrustworthy.

8. The computing device of claim 7, wherein the metadata comprises keywords.

9. The computing device of claim 7, wherein the metadata comprises specific fields of data.

10. The computing device of claim 7, further comprising metadata obtaining logic executed by the processor for obtaining the metadata from the online clip sharing system, the metadata received by the online clip sharing system from a user who uploaded the clip to the online clip sharing system.

11. The computing device of claim 7, further comprising metadata obtaining logic executed by the processor for obtaining the metadata from the online clip sharing system, the metadata received by the online clip sharing system from users who have reviewed the clip.

12. The computing device of claim 7, further comprising trustworthiness transmitting logic executed by the processor for transmitting, to a system for use in a search algorithm, a measure of trustworthiness comprising whether the metadata was assigned as trustworthy or untrustworthy.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium tangibly storing computer program instructions capable of being executed by a computer processor, the computer program instructions defining the steps of:

identifying, by the processor, a clip available on an online clip sharing system, the clip containing metadata about the clip and at least a portion of a broadcast program;

obtaining, by the processor, a digital fingerprint for the clip;

matching, by the processor, the digital fingerprint of the clip against a plurality of reference fingerprints to identify the broadcast program in the clip, the reference fingerprints corresponding to a plurality of known broadcast programs;

obtaining, by the processor, program information associated with the identified broadcast program based at least in part on the matching of the digital fingerprint of the clip against the plurality of reference fingerprints;

associating, by the processor, the program information with the clip;

storing, by the processor, the program information in association with the clip in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium;

comparing, by the processor, a portion of the metadata about the clip with the program information;

assigning, by the processor, the metadata as trustworthy if the portion of the metadata about the clip matches the program information;

assigning, by the processor, the metadata as untrustworthy if the portion of the metadata about the clip does not match the program information; and

transmitting, by the processor to a user device for display, a measure of trustworthiness comprising whether the metadata was assigned as trustworthy or untrustworthy.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the metadata comprises keywords.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the metadata comprises specific fields of data.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, further comprising obtaining, by the processor, the metadata from the online clip sharing system, the metadata received by the online clip sharing system from a user who uploaded the clip to the online clip sharing system.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, further comprising transmitting, by the processor to a system for use in a search algorithm, a measure of trustworthiness comprising whether the metadata was assigned as trustworthy or untrustworthy.