Patent ID: 8032539
Filing Date: 2011-10-04
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method for automatically rating a multimedia object comprising one or more discrete content items for objectionable content, wherein said method comprises the steps of: moving said specified content to one or more filtering stages in a succession of filtering stages, the last stage of said succession being the final stage thereof; after moving said specified content to a given one of said filtering stages, carrying out a rating procedure to determine whether a rating can be applied to one or more of said content items, and if so, applying a selected rating to each of said one or more content items to indicate whether said one or more content items contain objectionable content or non-objectionable content and filtering out said one or more rated content items to form a subset of remaining content items; moving the subset of remaining content items to a next stage in said succession after said given stage, when at least one content item of said specified content remains without a rating of objectionable content or non-objectionable content after said rating procedure has been completed at said given stage; and after applying ratings in a final stage in the succession of filtering stages, selectively processing the ratings respectively applied to at least some of said content items, in order to determine an over-all rating of objectionable content for said multimedia object, when none of said content items of said multimedia object remains without a rating, after said rating procedure has been completed at said final stage.