US Patent Application 18233616. USING CROSS-MATCHING BETWEEN USERS AND MATCHING AGAINST REFERENCE DATA TO FACILITATE CONTENT IDENTIFICATION simplified abstract
USING CROSS-MATCHING BETWEEN USERS AND MATCHING AGAINST REFERENCE DATA TO FACILITATE CONTENT IDENTIFICATION
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Inventor(s)
Zbigniew Skolicki of Krakow (PL)
Jurek Foryciarz of Krakow (PL)
Grzegorz Glowaty of Krakow (PL)
USING CROSS-MATCHING BETWEEN USERS AND MATCHING AGAINST REFERENCE DATA TO FACILITATE CONTENT IDENTIFICATION - A simplified explanation of the abstract
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18233616 titled 'USING CROSS-MATCHING BETWEEN USERS AND MATCHING AGAINST REFERENCE DATA TO FACILITATE CONTENT IDENTIFICATION
Simplified Explanation
- This patent application presents techniques for identifying video and/or audio content. - An identification management component (IMC) is used to group users who are potentially watching the same content. - The grouping is based on the content fingerprints associated with the content viewed by the users on their communication devices. - The IMC helps identify the content associated with the group of users by comparing their content fingerprints with reference content fingerprints. - The IMC can also receive a new content fingerprint from a user in the group and send it to a third-party identification component for comparison with reference content fingerprints. - The IMC then receives content identification information from the third-party component, which helps identify the content for the group of users. - The content identification can be based on both the new content fingerprint and the initial content fingerprints associated with the group.
Original Abstract Submitted
Techniques for identifying video and/or audio content are presented. An identification management component (IMC) groups users determined to be at least potentially be watching the same content based on first content fingerprints associated with respective content viewed by the users on communication devices, and a defined matching criterion. IMC facilitates identifying the content associated with the group of users based on first content fingerprints associated with the group of users and first reference content fingerprints. IMC receives a second content fingerprint associated with a communication device of a user in the group, sends the second content fingerprint to a third-party identification component for comparison with second reference content fingerprints, and receives content identification information in response. IMC identifies the content for the group of users based on the content identification information and/or the content identification made based on the first content fingerprints associated with the group.
