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20080275763 | Monetization of Digital Content Contributions - Methods and system for admitting a content provider into a revenue sharing program are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a request from a content provider to participate in the revenue sharing partner program and determining whether to invite the content provider based at least in part on infraction information associated with the content provider. | 11-06-2008 |
20090144325 | Blocking of Unlicensed Audio Content in Video Files on a Video Hosting Website - A system, method and various software tools enable a video hosting website to automatically identified unlicensed audio content in video files uploaded by users, and initiate a process by which the user can replace the unlicensed content with licensed audio content. An audio replacement tool is provided that enables the user to permanently mute the original, unlicensed audio content of a video file, or select a licensed audio file from a collection of licensed audio, and insert the selected in place of the original audio. Where a video file includes unlicensed audio, the video hosting website provides access to video files to a client device, along with an indication to the client device to mute the audio during playback of the video. | 06-04-2009 |
20090144326 | Site Directed Management of Audio Components of Uploaded Video Files - A system, method and various software tools enable a video hosting website to automatically identified unlicensed audio content in video files uploaded by users, and initiate a process by which the user can replace the unlicensed content with licensed audio content. An audio replacement tool is provided that enables the user to permanently mute the original, unlicensed audio content of a video file, or select a licensed audio file from a collection of licensed audio, and insert the selected in place of the original audio. | 06-04-2009 |
20100169655 | BLOCKING OF UNLICENSED AUDIO CONTENT IN VIDEO FILES ON A VIDEO HOSTING WEBSITE - A system, method and various software tools enable a video hosting website to automatically identified unlicensed audio content in video files uploaded by users, and initiate a process by which the user can replace the unlicensed content with licensed audio content. An audio replacement tool is provided that enables the user to permanently mute the original, unlicensed audio content of a video file, or select a licensed audio file from a collection of licensed audio, and insert the selected in place of the original audio. Where a video file includes unlicensed audio, the video hosting website provides access to video files to a client device, along with an indication to the client device to mute the audio during playback of the video. | 07-01-2010 |
20110289598 | Blocking of Unlicensed Audio Content in Video Files on a Video Hosting Website - A system, method and various software tools enable a video hosting website to automatically identified unlicensed audio content in video files uploaded by users, and initiate a process by which the user can replace the unlicensed content with licensed audio content. An audio replacement tool is provided that enables the user to permanently mute the original, unlicensed audio content of a video file, or select a licensed audio file from a collection of licensed audio, and insert the selected in place of the original audio. Where a video file includes unlicensed audio, the video hosting website provides access to video files to a client device, along with an indication to the client device to mute the audio during playback of the video. | 11-24-2011 |
20130014209 | Content Management System - Content rights holders provide digital content to a hosting site to be used as reference content. The content owner specifies a policy for each digital content item, indicating how that content may be used on the site when uploaded by someone other than the content owner. An identification module compares the uploaded content against reference content. If the content matches reference content, the specified policy for that reference content is applied to the uploaded content. Policy options provided by the content owner include tracking the content to see how it is viewed, preventing the content from being distributed on the site, and allowing the content to be displayed in a revenue-sharing environment. In one embodiment, if the identification module matches the uploaded content to a reference item but the match does not have a sufficiently high level of confidence, the suggested match is queued for review by the content owner. | 01-10-2013 |
20140020116 | BLOCKING OF UNLICENSED AUDIO CONTENT IN VIDEO FILES ON A VIDEO HOSTING WEBSITE - A system, method and various software tools enable a video hosting website to automatically identified unlicensed audio content in video files uploaded by users, and initiate a process by which the user can replace the unlicensed content with licensed audio content. An audio replacement tool is provided that enables the user to permanently mute the original, unlicensed audio content of a video file, or select a licensed audio file from a collection of licensed audio, and insert the selected in place of the original audio. Where a video file includes unlicensed audio, the video hosting website provides access to video files to a client device, along with an indication to the client device to mute the audio during playback of the video. | 01-16-2014 |
20150019306 | MONETIZATION OF DIGITAL CONTENT CONTRIBUTIONS - Methods and system for admitting a content provider into a revenue sharing program are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a request from a content provider to participate in the revenue sharing partner program and determining whether to invite the content provider based at least in part on infraction information associated with the content provider. | 01-15-2015 |
20150154385 | Site Directed Management of Audio Components of Uploaded Video Files - A system, method and various software tools enable a video hosting website to automatically identified unlicensed audio content in video files uploaded by users, and initiate a process by which the user can replace the unlicensed content with licensed audio content. An audio replacement tool is provided that enables the user to permanently mute the original, unlicensed audio content of a video file, or select a licensed audio file from a collection of licensed audio, and insert the selected in place of the original audio. | 06-04-2015 |
20150156563 | Site Directed Management of Audio Components of Uploaded Video Files - A system, method and various software tools enable a video hosting website to automatically identified unlicensed audio content in video files uploaded by users, and initiate a process by which the user can replace the unlicensed content with licensed audio content. An audio replacement tool is provided that enables the user to permanently mute the original, unlicensed audio content of a video file, or select a licensed audio file from a collection of licensed audio, and insert the selected in place of the original audio. | 06-04-2015 |
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20130103462 | Systems and methods for campaign offers and rewards with offer serving engine based on digitized receipt data - A campaign offers and rewards system includes an offer serving engine, and an analytics engine with data intelligence. The analytics engine compares information about similar goods or services sold by different entities, manufacturers or service providers to create product and service categories. A redemption engine is included. | 04-25-2013 |
20130103471 | Systems and methods for campaign offers and rewards with offer serving engine based on digitized receipt data - A campaign offers and rewards system includes a receipt intelligence engine with receipt processing that extracts information from a receipt, including information about items purchased based on a receipt from at least one of a shopping trip and an electronic receipt from an online or offline transaction. An analytics engine includes data intelligence coupled to the receipt processing and performs analysis of the receipt. The system is configured to be coupled to a mobile device. | 04-25-2013 |
20130103473 | Systems and methods for campaign offers and rewards with offer serving engine based on digitized receipt data - A campaign offers and rewards system includes an offer serving engine that provides offers or rewards. An analytics engine, with data intelligence, identifies receipt line items and ties the line items, including uniform price code (“UPC”), stock keeping unit (“SKU”) or product short name from different receipts to create a list of products and services not matched to advertisers. A redemption engine is in communication with a database that includes a reward budget. The redemption engine assists in controlling the redemption of rewards in view of the reward budget and in response to a communication from the analytics engine. | 04-25-2013 |
20130103475 | Systems and methods for campaign offers and rewards with offer serving engine based on digitized receipt data - A campaign offers and rewards system is provided. A receipt intelligence engine includes receipt processing that in operation extracts information about items purchased based on an image of a receipt from at least one of a shopping trip and an electronic receipt from an online or offline transaction. An analytics engine includes data intelligence coupled to the receipt processing and performs analysis of the receipt. In response to processing and analysis, an offer is then sold. | 04-25-2013 |
20130103476 | Systems and methods for campaign offers and rewards with offer serving engine based on digitized receipt data - A campaign offers and rewards system includes a campaign reward engine and a memory that stores offer reward data. An analytics engine predicts a probability that a user will redeem a given offer and estimates a reward the user will be owed when it redeems the offer and calculates an expected amount of the campaign's budget that will be consumed if the user is presented with that offer. | 04-25-2013 |
20130103481 | Systems and methods for campaign offers and rewards with offer serving engine based on digitized receipt data - A campaign offers and rewards system has an offer serving engine coupled to one or more network servers. A receipt intelligence engine includes a processor and receipt processing. The receipt processing extracts information from a receipt, including information about items purchased based on a receipt from at least one of a shopping trip and an electronic receipt from an online or offline transaction. An output outputs information. An analytics engine is coupled to the receipt intelligence engine. The analytics engine includes a predictive model function using information from the receipt processing. The analytics engine determines values representing statistical correlations from the receipt processing. | 04-25-2013 |
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20160055143 | MULTI-USER SEARCH SYSTEM WITH METHODOLOGY FOR BYPASSING INSTANT INDEXING - Multi-user computer search system with methodology for bypassing instant indexing of documents. In some embodiments, for example, a system for bypassing instant indexing includes a token store storing a set of token for a current version of a document and a tokenizer server configured to tokenize a new version of the document and to generate a set of tokens for the new version of the document. The system further includes an instant indexer server configured to determine tokens to index the document by based on identified differences between the set of tokens for the new version of the document and the set of tokens for the current version of the document, to determine whether the new version of the document is a bypass document version or non-bypass document version, and to generate an index mutation for the new version of the document including a specification of whether the generated index mutation is a bypass index mutation or a non-bypass index mutation based on whether the new version of the document is a bypass document version or non-bypass document version. The system also includes an index mutation server configured to provide the generated index mutation to an index server, if the generated index mutation is a non-bypass index mutation, or not provide the generated index mutation to the index server, if the generated index mutation is a bypass index mutation. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055185 | MULTI-USER SEARCH SYSTEM WITH METHODOLOGY FOR PERSONALIZED SEARCH QUERY AUTOCOMPLETE - A multi-user search system with methodology for personalized search query autocomplete. In one embodiment, for example, a method for personalized search query autocomplete includes receiving, from an end-user computing device of an authenticated user, a completion search query including a completion token; determining an identifier of an authorized document namespace the authenticated user is permitted to access; generating an index key including the authorized document namespace identifier as a prefix and the completion token as a suffix; accessing an index dictionary with the index key to identify and iterate over a plurality of prefixed index tokens until a stop condition is reached, each of the plurality of prefixed index tokens including the authorized document namespace identifier as a prefix and the each index token as a suffix, the completion token being a prefix of or matching the each index token; and for each prefixed index token of the plurality of prefixed index tokens, determining whether any documents identified in a postings list associated with the each prefixed index token satisfies the completion query, and returning filenames of any such documents satisfying the completion query in an answer to the completion query. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055188 | MULTI-USER SEARCH SYSTEM WITH METHODOLOGY FOR INSTANT INDEXING - A multi-user search system with methodology for instant indexing. In one embodiment, for example, a system for instant indexing includes a token store storing sets of tokens for current versions of documents. The system further includes a tokenizer server configured to tokenize new versions of the documents and to generate sets of tokens for the new versions of the documents, an instant indexer configured to determine tokens to use to index the documents based on identified differences between the sets of tokens for the new versions of the documents and the sets of tokens for the current versions of the documents, and to generate index mutations including the tokens to use to index the documents, an index mutation journal configured to store the generated index mutations in association with timestamps, and an index mutation server configured to provide, to index servers, from the index mutation journal, generated index mutations for the index servers that are associated with timestamps that are newer than specified timestamps. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055248 | MULTI-USER SEARCH SYSTEM WITH METHODOLOGY FOR PERSONAL SEARCHING - A multi-user search system with methodology for personal searching. In one embodiment, for example, a system for personal searching includes a plurality of index servers storing a plurality of index shards. Each index shard of the plurality of index shards indexes a plurality of documents. Each document of the plurality of documents belongs to one of a plurality of document namespaces assigned to the index shard. The system further includes a front-end server computer for receiving a search query from an authenticated user; an access control server for determining an authorized document namespace the authenticated user is authorized to access; and a query processor for answering the search query and restricting, based on an identifier of the authorized document namespace, an answer to the search query to identifying only documents satisfying the search query and belonging to the authorized document namespace. | 02-25-2016 |