Intellectual Property Rights Data Mart for Video Content

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current intellectual property rights management software systems for video content are inefficient in providing real-time data, as they generate reports that are often stale and require extensive computational resources, making it difficult to manage complex rights scenarios and identify conflicts.

Innovation Solution

The system accesses a database with hierarchical tables for rights, territories, and channels, creating records with temporal ranges to identify the least restrictive differences and generate near real-time query responses, enabling quick analysis and reporting of intellectual property rights availability.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If reports are generated at different schedules to satisfy business needs, then intellectual property rights information is provided to downstream systems, but the data becomes stale (hours or days old) and requires significant computational resources

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata freshnessVSAvoidreport generation efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent pre-generates and caches intellectual property rights information in a data mart before it is needed by downstream systems. By performing the computationally intensive data processing in advance and storing results in a optimized queryable format, the system eliminates the need for repeated heavy processing when reports are requested, while ensuring fresh data is immediately available without hours or days of lag.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Difficulty of detecting and measuring

If ad hoc reports are generated by privileged users to drill down into static data, then intellectual property rights collision details can be investigated, but this practice is computationally wasteful and the data is already out of date

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecollision analysis capabilityVSAvoidcomputational resource consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Difficulty of detecting and measuringVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary data mart layer between the source data and downstream systems that pre-processes and structures intellectual property rights information. This intermediary caches detailed rights information in an optimized format that enables efficient ad hoc queries and drill-down analysis without requiring re-processing of raw data, thus providing both detailed collision analysis capability and reduced computational waste.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Adaptability or versatility

If multiple reports are generated at different schedules, then various intellectual property rights management scenarios are addressed, but network bandwidth, memory space, and computational cycles are burdened

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverights management scenario coverageVSAvoiddata bandwidth and memory usage
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates a universal data mart structure that stores intellectual property rights information in a standardized, optimized format that can serve multiple different downstream systems and report types simultaneously. Instead of generating separate processed data for each report scenario, this single multi-functional data repository supports various rights management scenarios (licensing, monitoring, conflict detection) through efficient queries, reducing overall data bandwidth and memory requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS11405672B2Intellectual property rights management software systems for video content and methods of their manufacture and use
Publication Date: 2022.08.02 A&E NETWORKS
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AI summary

This disclosure discloses various intellectual property rights management software systems for video content (e.g. episodes, series, seasons, movies, clips) that are able to pre-determine intellectual property rights availabilities for the video content over many different combinations of factors (e.g. channels, territories, rights) such that these availabilities can be readily available (e.g. stored, cached) for a client (e.g. workstation, mobile device) to query against.