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US 2013/0097089 A1Published application
System to identify multiple copyright infringements
OwnerRobert STEELEinventor
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Abstract
A system, a method and a computer program for determining multiple copyright infringement events, identifying a particular IP address-port number combination associated with the multiple infringement events, and notifying an ISP and/or a customer regarding the multiple copyright infringement events.
Claims21
A system for detecting copyright infringement, comprising:
- a retrieving module configured to retrieve a library of nodes from a storage device;
- an identifying module configured to identify additional nodes and update the library of nodes to further include the additional nodes;
- a querying module configured to query the library of nodes to determine if the nodes include one or more predetermined files, wherein the one or more predetermined files may include copyrighted material, wherein the copyrighted material may include a text file, audio file, video file, and/or a multimedia file;
- a database populating module configured to populate a database with results of the query if the results include infringement data, wherein the infringement data is subsequently maintained within the database as a database record, wherein the infringement data includes at least one of an IP address, a port number, a file name, a time stamp, a software version number, and/or art ISP identifier;
- a correlation module configured to correlate database records in order to identify records having a predetermined relationship;
- a clustering module configured to generate a data structure to facilitate clustering of all records having the predetermined relationship;
- and,
- a notification module configured to transmit a notification to an ISP once the number of records in the data structure exceeds a predetermined threshold.
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A method for detecting copyright infringement, comprising:
- determining if a node is distributing copyrighted material;
- and,
- identifying an IP address and port number associated with one or more acts of copyright infringement.
A computer readable medium including instructions, which when executed by one or more computers, causes the one or more computers to perform a method to detect copyright infringement, the instructions comprising:
- instructions for identifying one or more nodes;
- instructions for querying the one or more nodes to determine if the nodes include copyrighted material;
- instructions for populating records of a database with the query results;
- instructions for mining the database to identify all records having substantially the same IP address and port number combination;
- and,
- instructions for generating one or more data structures that may be used to cluster records, based at least in part, on an associated IP address and port number combination.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.