System and method for taking action with respect to an electronic media work

• US 9,558,190 B1
• Filed: 12/28/2015
• Issued: 01/31/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Network-1 Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Network-1 Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: Cox, Ingemar J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chen, Cai
• Application Number:
  US14/981,269
• Time in Patent Office: 400 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/285 Clustering or classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/43 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/433 using audio data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/434 using image data, e.g. images, photos, pictures taken by a user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/487 using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/489 using time information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/532 Query formulation, e.g. graphical querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5838 using colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5866 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, manually generated location and time information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/73 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9566 URL specific, e.g. using aliases, detecting broken or misspelled links
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0256 User search
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 : Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 : Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0625 : Directed, with specific intent or strategy
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/12 : Accounting
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 2201/90 : characterised by the use of signatures
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/37 : for identifying segments of broadcast information, e.g. scenes or extracting programme ID
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/58 : of audio determination or detection of speech characteristics in general G10L25/00; speech recognition in general G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/59 : of video recognising characters or patterns in general G06F18/00, G06V20/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/16 : Threshold monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/256 : NAT traversal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/611 : for multicast or broadcast systems for broadcast or conference H04L12/18; arrangements for broadcast or distribution combined with broadcast H04H20/00; arrangements for broadcast applications with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time H04H60/00; selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS], H04W4/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/75 : Media network packet handling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 : based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 : Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 : for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23418 : involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics television picture signal circuitry for scene change detection H04N5/147; filtering for image enhancement G06T5/00; methods or arrangements for recognising scenes G06V20/00; arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2407 : Monitoring of transmitted content, e.g. distribution time, number of downloads arrangements for monitoring programmes for broadcast or for distribution combined with broadcast H04H20/14
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25841 : involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; arrangements for identifying locations of receiving stations in broadcast systems H04H60/51; location of the user terminal in data switching networks H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43 : Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronising decoder's clock; Client middleware real-time communication protocols in data switching networks H04L65/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4394 : involving operations for analysing the audio stream, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in audio streams arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of audio in broadcast systems H04H60/58
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44008 : involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in the video stream arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47815 : Electronic shopping payment schemes, payment architectures or payment protocols for electronic shopping systems G06Q20/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 : communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 : involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 : involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 : Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8586 : by using a URL processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94; information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; URL in broadcast information H04H20/93; Web-based protocols H04L67/02

Abstract

Methods and systems to perform methods comprising receiving, at a computer system from a first electronic device a first electronic media work; extracting one or more features therefrom; determining that at least a portion of the first electronic media work corresponds to a first reference media work based on a matching of the extracted features against a database of reference features; receiving, from a second electronic device, a query related to the first electronic media work; linking the query to action information in an action database based upon determining that at least a portion of the first electronic media work corresponds to the first reference media work; generating machine-readable instructions associated with the action to be performed based at least in part on the linking of the query to the action information; transmitting, to the second electronic device, the machine-readable instructions; and logging an event associated with the machine-readable instructions.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, at a computer system comprising one or more computers, from a first electronic device, a first electronic media work;

extracting, using the computer system, one or more features of the first electronic media work;

determining, at the computer system, that at least a portion of the first electronic media work corresponds to a first reference media work based on a matching of the extracted one or more features of the first electronic media work against a database of reference features extracted from a plurality of reference electronic media works including the first reference media work, using a sub-linear search of the database of reference features that identifies a match within a threshold of at least one of the reference features to the extracted one or more features of the first electronic media work but does not guarantee to identify the closest match to the extracted one or more features, wherein the database of reference features is organized using a clustering technique to eliminate a subset of the reference features to be searched by performing a comparison of cluster features;

receiving, at the computer system from a second electronic device, a query related to the first electronic media work;

linking, by the computer system, the query to action information in an action database based upon the determining that at least a portion of the first electronic media work corresponds to the first reference media work, wherein the action information comprises information related to a URL and is related to an action to be performed at the second electronic device;

generating, by the computer system, machine-readable instructions associated with the action to be performed based at least in part on the linking of the query to the action information;

transmitting, by the computer system to the second electronic device, the machine-readable instructions to be executed by the second electronic device; and

logging, by the computer system, an event associated with the machine-readable instructions.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first electronic media work comprises at least one of an audio file, a video file, or an image file.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first electronic device is at least one of a video recorder, a computer, a cell phone, or a portable device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the action comprises presenting a user associated with the second electronic device information related to the first electronic media work.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the event is related to a geographic location at which the first electronic media work was rendered on the second electronic device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the action is dependent, at least in part, on a geographic location at which the first electronic media work was rendered on the second electronic device.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the computer system receives data corresponding to a geographic location at which the first electronic media work was rendered on the second electronic device.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the computer system receives time information of when the first electronic media work was rendered on the second electronic device.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of determining, by the computer system, a number of renderings associated with the reference media work within a period of time based upon the logging.

10. A computer system of one or more computers comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more computer-readable media operatively connected to the one or more processors and having stored thereon instructions for carrying out the steps of;

receiving, at the computer system from a first electronic device, a first electronic media work;

extracting, using the computer system, one or more features of the first electronic media work;

determining, at the computer system, that at least a portion of the first electronic media work corresponds to a first reference media work based on a matching of the extracted one or more features of the first electronic media work against a database of reference features extracted from a plurality of reference electronic media works including the first reference media work, using a sub-linear search of the database of reference features that identifies a match within a threshold of at least one of the reference features to the extracted one or more features of the first electronic media work but does not guarantee to identify the closest match to the extracted one or more features, wherein the database of reference features is organized using a clustering technique to eliminate a subset of the reference features to be searched by performing a comparison of cluster features;

receiving, at the computer system from a second electronic device, a query related to the first electronic media work;

linking, by the computer system, the query to action information in an action database based upon the determining that at least a portion of the first electronic media work corresponds to the first reference media work, wherein the action information comprises information related to a URL and is related to an action to be performed at the second electronic device;

generating, by the computer system, machine-readable instructions associated with the action to be performed based at least in part on the linking of the query to the action information;

transmitting, by the computer system to the second electronic device, the machine-readable instructions to be executed by the second electronic device; and

logging, by the computer system, an event associated with the machine-readable instructions.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the first electronic media work comprises at least one of an audio file, a video file, or an image file.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the first electronic device is at least one of a video recorder, a computer, a cell phone, or a portable device.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the action comprises presenting a user associated with the second electronic device information related to the first electronic media work.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the event is related to a geographic location at which the first electronic media work was rendered on the second electronic device.

15. The system of claim 10, wherein the action is dependent, at least in part, on a geographic location at which the first electronic media work was rendered on the second electronic device.

16. The system of claim 10, wherein the computer system receives location data corresponding to a geographic location at which the first electronic media work was rendered on the second electronic device.

17. The system of claim 10, wherein the computer system receives time information of when the first electronic media work was rendered on the second electronic device.

18. The system of claim 10, further comprising the step of determining, by the computer system, a number of renderings associated with the reference media work within a period of time based upon the logging.