US 9,436,810 B2Granted

Determination of copied content, including attribution

AssigneeAttributor Corporation

InventorsJames L. Brock, James E. Pitkow

Life of this patent

Estimating the term…

Loading patent…

Abstract

This disclosure relates, e.g., to governing distribution of content on a web-based service. One aspect of the disclosure relates to a system comprising various interfaces, e.g., for: i) receiving content posted to a web-based service, for distribution by the web-based service to the public, and ii) presenting for review one or more items of user-posted content hosted by the web-based service that are identified as a match with identified copyrighted content, and receiving, via an interface for use in confirming the match, information regarding the match, ii) distributing the received content from the web-based service along with an attribution associated with the identified copyrighted content. A great variety of other aspects, claims, features and arrangements are also detailed.

Claims31

Dependent claims

A system comprising:

an input to receive a content object posted to a web-based service, for distribution by the web-based service to the public;
a hardware processing unit configured for:
determining fingerprint data from a received content object, and by reference to the determined fingerprint data, determining that the received content object includes content that at least potentially matches controlled content;
obtaining usage rule data relating to the controlled content, the usage rule data having earlier been established by an owner of the controlled content, the usage rule data comprising:
i) an owner-specified extent of copying between the received content object and the controlled content, and ii) an attribution requirement for received content;
determining an extent of copying between the received content object and the controlled content;
determining whether the received content object meets a minimum percentage of content;
and
governing distribution of the content object based on the usage rule data including i) the owner-specified extent of copying between the received content object and the controlled content, and ii) the attribution requirement for received content, and on the determined extent of copying, when the received content object meets the minimum percentage of content;
and
an interface through which different owners can specify different extent of copying requirements to govern distribution of their respective content.

8 more elements

A system comprising:

means for receiving a content object posted to a web-based service, for re-distribution by the web-based service to the public;
means for determining fingerprint data from a received content object;
means for determining, by reference to determined fingerprint data, that the received content object includes content that at least partially matches controlled content;
a first graphical user interface through which owner specified inputs can be received by said system, said first graphical user interface comprising a first interface, a second interface, a third interface, and a fourth interface, in which the first interface is configured to receive geographical requirements, the second interface is configured to receive restrictions on an amount of allowed duplication between the received content object and the controlled content, the third interface is configured to receive use restrictions, and the fourth interface is configured to receive an attribution requirement;
means for determining an amount of duplication between the received content object and the controlled content;
means for governing re-distribution of the content object based on:
i) a determined amount of duplication between the received content object and the controlled content, ii) owner specified geographical requirements, iii) owner specified restrictions on an amount of allowed duplication between the received content object and the controlled content, iv) owner specified use restrictions, and v) an owner specified attribution requirement;
and
a second graphical interface comprising a match interface, the match interface configured for presenting graphics corresponding to the received content object, and configured for receiving input for confirming a match, the second graphical interface comprising a content location interface configured for providing access to the received content object.

6 more elements

A system comprising:

means for receiving content posted by a user to a web-based service, for distribution by said web-based service to the public, the received content including copyrighted content for which copyright is held by a copyright owner;
means for computing fingerprint data from the received content;
means for detecting and identifying, by reference to computed fingerprint data, the copyrighted content included in the received content;
means for determining a copy extent score between the received content and the copyrighted content;
and
a first user interface that enables the copyright owner to specify an attribution requirement and a copy extent score for the copyrighted content, in which different copyright owners can specify different copy extent scores for their respective content;
and
means for governing distribution of the received content to the public in accordance with whether the determined copy extent score exceeds the specified copy extent score, and if the received content meets a minimum percentage of content;
and
a second user interface for distributing the received content from the web-based service along with an attribution associated with the identified copyrighted content.

7 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/541,422Filed 14 Nov 2014 · continuation
Priority: 29 Aug 2006
Published: US 2015/0074833 A112 Mar 2015
Granted: 6 Sep 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

G11B 20/00173
Involving measures which result in a restriction to authorised contents recorded on or reproduced from a record carrier, e.g. music or software:…
G06F 16/951
Retrieval from the web: indexing; Web crawling techniques
G06F 16/9535
Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines: search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
G06F 16/9536
Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines: search customisation based on social or collaborative filtering

Family

Application11/512,067Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 29 Aug 2006
Application11/655,748Parent of this continuation · filed 19 Jan 2007
Application14/258,633Parent of this continuation · filed 22 Apr 2014
US 8,707,459 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 22 Apr 2014
Application14/271,297Parent of this continuation · filed 6 May 2014
US 8,738,749 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 27 May 2014
US 2015/0074833 A1Pre-grant publication · published 12 Mar 2015
US 8,935,745 B2Parent of this continuation
Application14/271,297Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 2008/0059536 A1Published application
US 2008/0178302 A1Published application
US 2014/0259097 A1Published application
US 2015/0302886 A1Published application
US 2017/0092319 A9Published application
US 9,654,447 B2Related patent
US 9,436,810 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.