Policy-Based Video Syndication Engine for Copyright Management

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Solution Overview

Problem

The proliferation of media hosting websites has made it difficult to detect and manage copyrighted digital content, as multiple rights holders exist for a single work, and existing solutions fail to provide effective rights management and monetization control for content owners.

Innovation Solution

A media syndication engine, referred to as the VID server, allows content owners to upload and manage digital content, specify policies for usage, and generate fingerprints for content matching, enabling revenue sharing and advertisement integration with media hosts.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If media hosting websites allow users to upload multimedia content for mass viewing, then content availability and user engagement increase, but detection and management of copyrighted content becomes difficult

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent availabilityVSAvoidcopyrighted content detection

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary fingerprinting of reference content before it is uploaded to media hosting sites. By pre-processing and storing fingerprints of copyrighted material, the system enables rapid detection upon upload without requiring complex real-time analysis, thus resolving the contradiction between content availability and detection difficulty

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces traditional manual or mechanical content detection methods with automated fingerprinting technology. The fingerprinting module generates unique digital signatures for content, allowing automated identification and matching without human intervention, thereby solving the detection difficulty while maintaining high content availability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple rights holders exist for a single work, then content ownership complexity increases, but control and monetization management becomes difficult

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent ownershipVSAvoidrights management

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments rights management by creating separate policy profiles for each rights holder associated with a work. Each rights holder can define independent policies for their specific rights, allowing the system to handle multiple owners without creating unmanageable complexity. The segmentation principle divides the complex rights management into manageable, independent units

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a syndication engine as an intermediary between multiple rights holders and media hosting sites. This intermediary automatically manages the complexity of multiple rights holders by processing fingerprints, matching content, and enforcing policies without requiring direct coordination between all rights holders, thus reducing management complexity while accommodating diverse ownership structures

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Measurement precision

If content identification processes are implemented, then copyright management improves, but monetization control for rights holders is not provided

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent identificationVSAvoidmonetization control

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The syndication engine is designed with multi-functionality, serving both content identification and monetization control purposes. The same fingerprinting and matching mechanism used for identification also triggers policy enforcement and revenue distribution, eliminating the need for separate systems and providing comprehensive control to rights holders

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback loops where content identification results automatically trigger monetization actions. When copyrighted content is identified through fingerprinting, the system retrieves associated policies, enforces monetization terms, and distributes revenue accordingly. This feedback mechanism ensures that identification directly leads to controlled monetization, giving rights holders comprehensive control

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

4Measurement precision

If fingerprinting and matching processes are used, then content identification accuracy improves, but system processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent matching accuracyVSAvoidprocessing complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts only the essential identifying features of content into compact fingerprints, rather than processing entire content files. By taking out only the necessary fingerprint data for matching, the system achieves high identification accuracy while significantly reducing processing complexity and computational requirements

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS9633014B2Policy based video content syndication

Publication Date: 2017.04.25 GOOGLE LLC

AI summary

An item of hosted content is received from a media host. A match metric representing an aspect of a match between the item of hosted content and an item of reference content, the item of reference content provided by a content owner having rights to the item of reference content. A policy associated with the item of reference content is identified responsive to the value to that represents the correspondence, the policy including terms of use for the hosted content. The policy is provided to the media host.