Patent ID: 9342670
Filing Date: 2016-05-17
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method of evaluating content, including: extracting features from a content object submitted by an owner of copyrighted content to obtain plural fingerprints for the content object, the plural fingerprints configured to assess extent of copying of the content object based on a similarity score; monitoring a network to obtain content hosted within the network; determining a host policy associated with one or more host policy rules, wherein the host policy specifies one or more conditions under which a content based on a copyrighted content may be hosted by a content host, wherein the one or more conditions include an usage rule specified by the owner of the copyrighted content, and wherein the usage rule specifies that use of the copyrighted content, including republication or modification of the copyrighted content, is permitted in a first context but not permitted in a second context; automatically assessing using a processor compliance with the one or more host policy rules based at least in part on a context associated with a use of the content, wherein the context comprises the extent of copying based on the similarity score and commercial hosting context, and the assessing comprises computing the similarity score using the plural fingerprints, and determining whether to enable ad revenue sharing between the content host and the owner based on a commercial use restriction in the usage rule; combining the compliance assessments to make a compliance evaluation based on a combination of the extent of copying and commercial use restriction.