Media Usage Token Platform for Automated Rights Authorization

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Solution Overview

Problem

Negotiating media usage agreements between content creators can be costly and cumbersome, and existing content sharing platforms face inefficiencies in detecting and preventing rights violations, consuming significant computing resources.

Innovation Solution

A media usage rights platform that enables content creators to specify usage options and payment schemes for their media items, generates identifiers, and issues tokens based on smart contracts, facilitating authorized usage and tracking, while reducing computing resource consumption.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional media usage agreement negotiation is used between content creators, then media usage rights can be established, but the process becomes costly and cumbersome

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemedia usage rights enforcementVSAvoidnegotiation process

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a media usage rights platform as an intermediary between content creators and content users. This platform automatically manages media usage agreements, issues usage tokens, and enforces rights without requiring direct negotiation between parties. The platform mediates the entire process, making it easier and more efficient while maintaining reliable rights enforcement.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service through automated token generation and validation. Content creators register their media items with the platform, which then automatically issues usage tokens to authorized users. The platform self-enforces rights by validating tokens against the registered media items, eliminating the need for manual negotiation and monitoring between content creators and users.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Reliability

If existing content sharing platforms detect and prevent rights violations, then copyright protection is maintained, but significant computing resources are consumed

Engineering Contradiction:

Improverights violation detectionVSAvoidcomputing resource consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements preliminary action by issuing usage tokens before media consumption occurs. These tokens pre-authorize specific usage rights, allowing the system to quickly validate permissions without performing complex analysis during content delivery. The rights verification is performed in advance during token issuance, reducing real-time computing requirements.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system replaces the mechanical approach of analyzing media content for rights verification with a token-based cryptographic system. Instead of computationally intensive content analysis, the platform uses digital tokens that encode usage rights, enabling fast and efficient verification through simple token validation rather than complex media processing.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Adaptability or versatility

If manual media usage agreement processes are used, then content creators can negotiate terms, but the workflow becomes inefficient

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveusage option negotiationVSAvoidagreement processing speed

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The media usage rights platform provides a universal system that handles multiple types of media items (audio, video, images) and various usage scenarios through a single unified interface. The platform manages registration, token issuance, and validation across different media types and usage contexts, making the process adaptable to diverse needs while maintaining high processing efficiency through standardized procedures.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS12524748B2Authorizing usage of media content of a content owner by other content creators

Publication Date: 2026.01.13 GOOGLE LLC

AI summary

A method includes generating a first media item identifier for a first media item of a first media item owner, the first media item being associated with one or more media usage options. The method further includes generating, for each of the one or more media usage options, a media usage option identifier. The method further includes receiving a media usage request of a second media item owner. The method further includes, upon determining that the media usage request satisfies one or more criteria pertaining to the selected media usage option, generating a media usage token. The method further includes transmitting the media usage token to a user device of the second media item owner to authorize the second media item owner to include at least a portion of the first media item in a second media item of the second media item owner.