Patents by Inventor Nicholas Seet
Nicholas Seet has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 9659091Abstract: A characteristic thumbprint is extracted from a data signal, the thumbprint based on statistics relating to the data signal. The data signal can be compared indirectly by matching this thumbprint against one or more reference thumbprints. The data signal may be any type of signal, including streaming digitized audio or obtained from static files. A database may contain a number of these characteristic thumbprints, and the database can be searched for a particular thumbprint.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2013Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: EXCALIBUR IP, LLCInventors: Jeffrey L. Caruso, Nicholas Seet, William Shawn Yeager
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Patent number: 9424349Abstract: To restore context information about a clip that was sampled from a broadcast program, the clip is identified by matching a digital fingerprint of the clip against a database of known digital fingerprints taken from broadcast programs. If the clip can be identified, it is then associated with information about the matching broadcast program. The loss of context data about the clip obtained from a broadcast program is thus remedied, enabling media content available online to be more useable for a variety of purposes, such as media searching, automatic broadcast attribution, and targeting advertisements.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2015Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Nicholas Seet, Adam Cahan
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Patent number: 9292514Abstract: A media identification system generates reference fingerprints for known media samples and stores the reference fingerprints in a reference database. The media identification system uses the reference fingerprints to match a fingerprint generated from an unknown media sample to identify that unknown sample. When storing new reference fingerprints in the reference database, partitions of the database are selected to balance the search loads on the database when it is used by the media identification system. For example, the selected partitions may be determined based at least in part on the access rates of the partitions by the media identification system. New reference fingerprints will tend to be placed in partitions that have relatively lower access rates that the other partitions, which will tend to balance the search loads on the partitions by the media identification system.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2014Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: YAHOO! INC.Inventors: Nicholas Seet, Rob Johnson, Joshua Smallman, Adam Cahan
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Publication number: 20150248479Abstract: To restore context information about a clip that was sampled from a broadcast program, the clip is identified by matching a digital fingerprint of the clip against a database of known digital fingerprints taken from broadcast programs. If the clip can be identified, it is then associated with information about the matching broadcast program. The loss of context data about the clip obtained from a broadcast program is thus remedied, enabling media content available online to be more useable for a variety of purposes, such as media searching, automatic broadcast attribution, and targeting advertisements.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2015Publication date: September 3, 2015Inventors: Nicholas Seet, Adam Cahan
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Patent number: 9036717Abstract: To restore context information about a clip that was sampled from a broadcast program, the clip is identified by matching a digital fingerprint of the clip against a database of known digital fingerprints taken from broadcast programs. If the clip can be identified, it is then associated with information about the matching broadcast program. The loss of context data about the clip obtained from a broadcast program is thus remedied, enabling media content available online to be more useable for a variety of purposes, such as media searching, automatic broadcast attribution, and targeting advertisements.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2012Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: YAHOO! INC.Inventors: Nicholas Seet, Adam Cahan
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Publication number: 20140236952Abstract: A media identification system generates reference fingerprints for known media samples and stores the reference fingerprints in a reference database. The media identification system uses the reference fingerprints to match a fingerprint generated from an unknown media sample to identify that unknown sample. When storing new reference fingerprints in the reference database, partitions of the database are selected to balance the search loads on the database when it is used by the media identification system. For example, the selected partitions may be determined based at least in part on the access rates of the partitions by the media identification system. New reference fingerprints will tend to be placed in partitions that have relatively lower access rates that the other partitions, which will tend to balance the search loads on the partitions by the media identification system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: YAHOO! INC.Inventors: Nicholas Seet, Rob Johnson, Joshua Smallman, Adam Cahan
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Patent number: 8713068Abstract: A media identification system generates reference fingerprints for known media samples and stores the reference fingerprints in a reference database. The media identification system uses the reference fingerprints to match a fingerprint generated from an unknown media sample to identify that unknown sample. When storing new reference fingerprints in the reference database, partitions of the database are selected to balance the search loads on the database when it is used by the media identification system. For example, the selected partitions may be determined based at least in part on the access rates of the partitions by the media identification system. New reference fingerprints will tend to be placed in partitions that have relatively lower access rates that the other partitions, which will tend to balance the search loads on the partitions by the media identification system.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2009Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Nicholas Seet, Rob Johnson, Joshua Smallman, Adam Cahan
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Publication number: 20140058706Abstract: A characteristic thumbprint is extracted from a data signal, the thumbprint based on statistics relating to the data signal. The data signal can be compared indirectly by matching this thumbprint against one or more reference thumbprints. The data signal may be any type of signal, including streaming digitized audio or obtained from static files. A database may contain a number of these characteristic thumbprints, and the database can be searched for a particular thumbprint.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2013Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey L. Caruso, Nicholas Seet, William Shawn Yeager
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Patent number: 8620626Abstract: A characteristic thumbprint is extracted from a data signal, the thumbprint based on statistics relating to the data signal. The data signal can be compared indirectly by matching this thumbprint against one or more reference thumbprints. The data signal may be any type of signal, including streaming digitized audio or obtained from static files. A database may contain a number of these characteristic thumbprints, and the database can be searched for a particular thumbprint.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey L. Caruso, Nicholas Seet, William Shawn Yeager
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Patent number: 8392148Abstract: A characteristic thumbprint is extracted from a data signal, the thumbprint based on statistics relating to the data signal. The data signal can be compared indirectly by matching this thumbprint against one or more reference thumbprints. The data signal may be any type of signal, including streaming digitized audio or obtained from static files. A database may contain a number of these characteristic thumbprints, and the database can be searched for a particular thumbprint.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2012Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey L. Caruso, Nicholas Seet, William Shawn Yeager
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Publication number: 20130018614Abstract: A characteristic thumbprint is extracted from a data signal, the thumbprint based on statistics relating to the data signal. The data signal can be compared indirectly by matching this thumbprint against one or more reference thumbprints. The data signal may be any type of signal, including streaming digitized audio or obtained from static files. A database may contain a number of these characteristic thumbprints, and the database can be searched for a particular thumbprint.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: January 17, 2013Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey L. Caruso, William S. Yeager, Nicholas Seet
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Publication number: 20120324506Abstract: To restore context information about a clip that was sampled from a broadcast program, the clip is identified by matching a digital fingerprint of the clip against a database of known digital fingerprints taken from broadcast programs. If the clip can be identified, it is then associated with information about the matching broadcast program. The loss of context data about the clip obtained from a broadcast program is thus remedied, enabling media content available online to be more useable for a variety of purposes, such as media searching, automatic broadcast attribution, and targeting advertisements.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2012Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Nicholas Seet, Adam Cahan
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Patent number: 8295363Abstract: To restore context information about a clip that was sampled from a broadcast program, the clip is identified by matching a digital fingerprint of the clip against a database of known digital fingerprints taken from broadcast programs. If the clip can be identified, it is then associated with information about the matching broadcast program. The loss of context data about the clip obtained from a broadcast program is thus remedied, enabling media content available online to be more useable for a variety of purposes, such as media searching, automatic broadcast attribution, and targeting advertisements.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2008Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Nicholas Seet, Adam Cahan
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Publication number: 20120191419Abstract: A characteristic thumbprint is extracted from a data signal, the thumbprint based on statistics relating to the data signal. The data signal can be compared indirectly by matching this thumbprint against one or more reference thumbprints. The data signal may be any type of signal, including streaming digitized audio or obtained from static files. A database may contain a number of these characteristic thumbprints, and the database can be searched for a particular thumbprint.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2012Publication date: July 26, 2012Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey L. Caruso, William S. Yeager, Nicholas Seet
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Patent number: 8160840Abstract: A characteristic thumbprint is extracted from a data signal, the thumbprint based on statistics relating to the data signal. The data signal can be compared indirectly by matching this thumbprint against one or more reference thumbprints. The data signal may be any type of signal, including streaming digitized audio or obtained from static files. A database may contain a number of these characteristic thumbprints, and the database can be searched for a particular thumbprint.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2010Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey L. Caruso, Nicholas Seet, William Shawn Yeager
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Publication number: 20110071796Abstract: A characteristic thumbprint is extracted from a data signal, the thumbprint based on statistics relating to the data signal. The data signal can be compared indirectly by matching this thumbprint against one or more reference thumbprints. The data signal may be any type of signal, including streaming digitized audio or obtained from static files. A database may contain a number of these characteristic thumbprints, and the database can be searched for a particular thumbprint.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2010Publication date: March 24, 2011Applicant: AUDITUDE, INC.Inventors: Jeffrey L. Caruso, William S. Yeager, Nicholas Seet
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Publication number: 20100318587Abstract: A media identification system generates reference fingerprints for known media samples and stores the reference fingerprints in a reference database. The media identification system uses the reference fingerprints to match a fingerprint generated from an unknown media sample to identify that unknown sample. When storing new reference fingerprints in the reference database, partitions of the database are selected to balance the search loads on the database when it is used by the media identification system. For example, the selected partitions may be determined based at least in part on the access rates of the partitions by the media identification system. New reference fingerprints will tend to be placed in partitions that have relatively lower access rates that the other partitions, which will tend to balance the search loads on the partitions by the media identification system.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2009Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: AUDITUDE, INC.Inventors: Nicholas Seet, Rob Johnson, Joshua Smallman, Adam Cahan
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Patent number: 7853438Abstract: A characteristic thumbprint is extracted from a data signal, the thumbprint based on statistics relating to the data signal. The data signal can be compared indirectly by matching this thumbprint against one or more reference thumbprints. The data signal may be any type of signal, including streaming digitized audio or obtained from static files. A database may contain a number of these characteristic thumbprints, and the database can be searched for a particular thumbprint.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2008Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Auditude, Inc.Inventors: Jeffery L. Caruso, Nicholas Seet, William Shawn Yeager
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Publication number: 20090034807Abstract: A characteristic thumbprint is extracted from a data signal, the thumbprint based on statistics relating to the data signal. The data signal can be compared indirectly by matching this thumbprint against one or more reference thumbprints. The data signal may be any type of signal, including streaming digitized audio or obtained from static files. A database may contain a number of these characteristic thumbprints, and the database can be searched for a particular thumbprint.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2008Publication date: February 5, 2009Applicant: ID3MAN, INC.Inventors: Jeffrey L. Caruso, William S. Yeager, Nicholas Seet
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Patent number: 7421376Abstract: A characteristic thumbprint is extracted from a data signal, the thumbprint based on statistics relating to the data signal. The data signal can be compared indirectly by matching this thumbprint against one or more reference thumbprints. The data signal may be any type of signal, including streaming digitized audio or obtained from static files. A database for containing a number of such thumbprints and methods for searching the database are also described.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2002Date of Patent: September 2, 2008Assignee: Auditude, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey L. Caruso, William S. Yeager, Nicholas Seet