Patent ID: 8131708

Claim:
A method for discovering and identifying a video object, the method comprising: crawling at least one predetermined website; discovering at least one video link at the predetermined website; processing information associated with a first database for storing one or more video links; determining whether the discovered video link was already discovered before based on at least information associated with the first database; if the discovered video link is determined not to have been discovered before, updating the first database based on at least information associated with the discovered video link; downloading at least one video object based on at least information associated with the discovered video link; processing information associated with the downloaded video object; determining a first fingerprint for the downloaded video object based on at least information associated with the downloaded video object; processing information associated with at least the first fingerprint for the downloaded video object; determining whether the downloaded video object matches with a video title that is being tracked based on at least information associated with the first fingerprint and a second fingerprint, the second fingerprint corresponding to the video title; if the downloaded video object is determined to match with the video title that is being tracked, updating a second database for storing one or more tracking results.