Patent ID: 9489431
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: G06F,H04H,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for conducting search-by-content, comprising: responsive to an input multimedia content item provided to a user device, checking if the input multimedia content item matches at least one concept of a plurality of concepts cached in the user device, wherein the at least one matching concept is a collection of signatures representing a large scale of multimedia content items, the collection is of a signature reduced cluster generated by inter-matching signatures generated for the large scale of multimedia content items, and the at least one matching concept is represented using at least on signature and metadata; retrieving characteristics set for a user of the user device; performing a search, using the at least one matching concept, for multimedia content items similar to the input multimedia content item; determining which of the search results are of interest to the user based on the characteristics set for the user; and saving results that are of interest to the user in the user device, wherein the saved results include multimedia content items.