Patents Assigned to Corbis Corporation
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Patent number: 9286598Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards providing a method, a system and a network device for applying a form to a media item in a media library, including enabling, by a mobile device, a contributor of media items to prepare a form, uploading, by the mobile device, the form to a server computer that manages a media library, the media library being a collection of media items and forms associated with one more of the media items, enabling a contributor to upload, from a client computer, different than said mobile device, media items to the media library and enabling, by a client computer that communicates with the server computer, the contributor to associate the form with one or more media items uploaded by the contributor.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2010Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: CORBIS CORPORATIONInventors: Laurence G. Cohen, Scott J. Fischer, Cameron Neblett
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Publication number: 20150348098Abstract: Various embodiments are directed towards a computer-implemented method and system that analyzes screenplays to identify and score opportunities for product placements. In certain embodiments the method uses natural language speech recognition or other speech processing techniques to identify product placement opportunities. The method initially scans or processes the text in a screenplay to identify significant nouns and actions that equate to opportunities. It then applies a grammar to generate a score for some or all of the opportunities.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2015Publication date: December 3, 2015Applicant: Corbis CorporationInventors: Stephen R. Walli, Scott Gerlach, Patrick Mair
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Publication number: 20150278894Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards providing a computer-implemented method for negotiating the purchase of a placement that communicates a rights holder interface over a network to a rights holder for dynamically accessing terms of an offer, the offer based at least in part on a request by a rights requester to purchase a placement controlled by the rights holder, wherein the rights holder interface includes a control accessible to the rights holder for dynamically revising terms of the offer, receives from the rights holder over the network a counteroffer that includes an indication of a revision by the rights holder to at least one of the terms of the offer, evaluates the counteroffer received from the rights holder and determines that the terms of the counteroffer, including the at least one revised term, are acceptable; and communicates a confirmation of the counteroffer to the rights holder.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2015Publication date: October 1, 2015Applicant: CORBIS CORPORATIONInventors: David Edward Reeder, Curtis W.M. Bowden, Gary Shenk, Mark Owens
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Publication number: 20150213486Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards providing a computer-implemented method for integrating or placing branded product advertisement within media, including maintaining by a placement server a database of placement opportunities, receiving from a buyer computer a media plan by a buyer, the media plan specifying desired placements to purchase and a budget, projecting the number of impressions the purchased placements will generate, initiating execution of the media plan, gathering data about the results of each of the purchased and produced placements, determining a placement quality ranking for each placement and estimating a media value for each placement.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2013Publication date: July 30, 2015Applicant: CORBIS CORPORATIONInventors: Gary Shenk, Mark Owens, Jeffrey Bertrand, Parick Mair, Richard Frank Garber
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Patent number: 8831998Abstract: Batch pricing of digital media items by providing an electronic cart interface for use in managing a purchase of a plurality of digital media items, each digital media item having a status of priced or unpriced. The interface enables a user of the client device to interactively select a plurality of media items to be priced as a batch of digital media items, and to sequentially request one or more rights for each of the selected media items within the batch. The user may obtain a price for each selected media item that is based on the designated pricing model and the one or more rights requested the digital media right to be licensed for each media item.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2009Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Corbis CorporationInventors: Alison Cramer, Michael Catbagan, Jason Rudmann, Travis Gigliotti, Chris Esler, Mary Pat Gotschall, Monica Risse, Jon-Eric Steinbomer, Shannon McFarlin, Jason Blackburn, Pablo Supkay
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Patent number: 8688586Abstract: Brokering use of media assets based on rights provided by rights holders and licensing terms requested by potential licensees. Rights include use attributes, geographic attributes, and time attributes. Use attributes include one or more parent categories of uses, such as print advertising, web promotion, etc. Each parent category includes one or more specific uses, such as magazine advertisement, newspaper advertisement, etc. Rights are obtained from rights holders and stored in a data structure that is searchable according to various rights attributes. A licensing request includes desired licensing terms, such as a specific use, time period, and geographic location. The licensing request may also reserve use for a later time and/or impose an embargo on use for a period after use. The data structure is searched for media assets whose rights encompass the desired licensing terms, such as media assets with a parent use that includes a desired specific use.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2012Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Corbis CorporationInventors: Edward Pride, Vicki Daniel, Daniel Stephen Feduff, Travis Gigliotti
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Publication number: 20140089324Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards providing a device and method of identifying media items from a media library maintained by a media server that are similar to a designated media item. The media server stores an ontology, which is represented as a hierarchically linked set of nodes wherein a node is either a concept or a placeholder, and a library of media items. Each media item corresponds to a record in the media library and the record includes at least one metadata field with assigned keywords. The media server receives a designation of a media item from a user computer, retrieves the corresponding keywords, obtains all related concepts from the ontology, computes node weights for the related concepts, queries the media library using the node weights, to identify similar media items and provides the results to the user computer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2013Publication date: March 27, 2014Applicant: CORBIS CORPORATIONInventors: Joseph Ellsworth, Michael Ree, James Helms, Jarett Funnell
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Patent number: 8620905Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards providing a device and method of identifying media items from a media library maintained by a media server that are similar to a designated media item. The media server stores a controlled vocabulary which is represented as a hierarchically linked set of nodes wherein a plurality of nodes correspond to concepts and a library of media items. Each media item corresponds to a record in the media library and the record includes at least one metadata field with assigned keywords. The media server receives a designation of a media item from a user computer, retrieves the keywords assigned to the media item, obtains all related concepts from the controlled vocabulary, computes a search weight for each related concept, and queries the media library to identify media items that match the designated media item and provides the results to the user computer.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2012Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Corbis CorporationInventors: Joseph Ellsworth, Michael Ree, James Helms, Jarett Funnell
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Publication number: 20130254184Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards providing a device and method of identifying media items from a media library maintained by a media server that are similar to a designated media item. The media server stores a controlled vocabulary which is represented as a hierarchically linked set of nodes wherein a plurality of nodes correspond to concepts and a library of media items. Each media item corresponds to a record in the media library and the record includes at least one metadata field with assigned keywords. The media server receives a designation of a media item from a user computer, retrieves the keywords assigned to the media item, obtains all related concepts from the controlled vocabulary, computes a search weight for each related concept, and queries the media library to identify media items that match the designated media item and provides the results to the user computer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2012Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: Corbis CorporationInventors: Joseph Ellsworth, Michael Ree, James Helms, Jarett Funnell
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Patent number: 8543605Abstract: Rights clearances management for assets, such as media assets. A rights brokerage service enables potential licensees to clears rights to use assets within designated projects, such as advertising campaign projects. The potential licensee uses an interface to select or identify an asset without necessarily accessing the asset itself. The rights holders and the rights held by each rights holder are identified based on the asset identity. A request is automatically issued to the rights holders to approve use of the asset for the project. The potential licensee may use an interface to track progress of approvals from the rights holders. Unenforceable rights are detected and approval is automatically obtained. If all enforceable rights are cleared, the asset may be committed for approval by a project manager or other authority. When approved, a license to use the asset is automatically created between the potential licensee and each of the rights holders.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2011Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Corbis CorporationInventors: Curtis W. M. Bowden, David M. Crandall, David Edward Reeder, Jonathan Frederick Schupp, Sung H. Shin
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Publication number: 20130103592Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards providing method for negotiating a license to a media item by a customer for a commercial use, including maintaining by a digital media licensing server a catalog of media items that are available to be licensed, and a database of records. Receiving a designation of a media item from the catalog, providing a customer interface that enables a customer to specify an offer to license the selected media item; receiving an offer, electronically providing to a plurality of rights holders in the media item information about the offer, receiving from rights holders at least one counteroffer price, determining a collaborative counteroffer price, and providing the collaborative counteroffer price to the customer. Additional embodiments are directed toward a method for making recommendations for alternative media items to license.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2011Publication date: April 25, 2013Applicant: CORBIS CORPORATIONInventors: Gary Shenk, Gilbert Gerard Wong, Katherine Mae Golden, Alison L. Cramer, Aaron Smith, Joshua Saint Jacque, Jason Christopher Rudmann
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Patent number: 8341195Abstract: Managing content assets, such as images, video, and audio to facilitate filtering, searching, licensing, and editing associated attributes. Content assets are associated with multiple attributes, including licensing models, predefined value tiers, collections, and albums. Value tiers define varying ranges of price, resolution, or other qualities. Collections comprise groups of content assets within families, each specified by a license model and a value tier. Albums comprise groups of content assets that share a common topic, and albums have a predefined duration. An interface enables a user to filter by selecting any combination of the attributes, and to search the filtered content assets by keywords. Collection states and asset states determine which content assets are accessible for filtering and searching.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2007Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Corbis CorporationInventors: Mary Katherine Cole, Glen Arthur O'Connor, Peter Christian Speyer
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Publication number: 20120246734Abstract: Brokering use of media assets based on rights provided by rights holders and licensing terms requested by potential licensees. Rights include use attributes, geographic attributes, and time attributes. Use attributes include one or more parent categories of uses, such as print advertising, web promotion, etc. Each parent category includes one or more specific uses, such as magazine advertisement, newspaper advertisement, etc. Rights are obtained from rights holders and stored in a data structure that is searchable according to various rights attributes. A licensing request includes desired licensing terms, such as a specific use, time period, and geographic location. The licensing request may also reserve use for a later time and/or impose an embargo on use for a period after use. The data structure is searched for media assets whose rights encompass the desired licensing terms, such as media assets with a parent use that includes a desired specific use.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2012Publication date: September 27, 2012Applicant: CORBIS CORPORATIONInventors: Edward Pride, Vicki Daniel, Daniel Stephen Feduff, Travis Gigliotti
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Patent number: 8219494Abstract: Brokering use of media assets based on rights provided by rights holders and licensing terms requested by potential licensees. Rights include use attributes, geographic attributes, and time attributes. Use attributes include one or more parent categories of uses, such as print advertising, web promotion, etc. Each parent category includes one or more specific uses, such as magazine advertisement, newspaper advertisement, etc. Rights are obtained from rights holders and stored in a data structure that is searchable according to various rights attributes. A licensing request includes desired licensing terms, such as a specific use, time period, and geographic location. The licensing request may also reserve use for a later time and/or impose an embargo on use for a period after use. The data structure is searched for media assets whose rights encompass the desired licensing terms, such as media assets with a parent use that includes a desired specific use.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2007Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Corbis CorporationInventors: Edward Pride, Vicki Daniel, Daniel Stephen Feduff, Travis Gigliotti
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Publication number: 20120096339Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards providing a method, a system and a network device for applying a form to a media item in a media library, including enabling, by a mobile device, a contributor of media items to prepare a form, uploading, by the mobile device, the form to a server computer that manages a media library, the media library being a collection of media items and forms associated with one more of the media items, enabling a contributor to upload, from a client computer, different than said mobile device, media items to the media library and enabling, by a client computer that communicates with the server computer, the contributor to associate the form with one or more media items uploaded by the contributor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2010Publication date: April 19, 2012Applicant: CORBIS CORPORATIONInventors: Laurence G. Cohen, Scott J. Fischer, Cameron Neblett
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Publication number: 20120047177Abstract: Rights clearances management for assets, such as media assets. A rights brokerage service enables potential licensees to clears rights to use assets within designated projects, such as advertising campaign projects. The potential licensee uses an interface to select or identify an asset without necessarily accessing the asset itself. The rights holders and the rights held by each rights holder are identified based on the asset identity. A request is automatically issued to the rights holders to approve use of the asset for the project. The potential licensee may use an interface to track progress of approvals from the rights holders. Unenforceable rights are detected and approval is automatically obtained. If all enforceable rights are cleared, the asset may be committed for approval by a project manager or other authority. When approved, a license to use the asset is automatically created between the potential licensee and each of the rights holders.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2011Publication date: February 23, 2012Applicant: CORBIS CORPORATIONInventors: Curtis W. M. Bowden, David M. Crandall, David Edward Reeder, Jonathan Frederick Schupp, Sung H. Shin
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Patent number: 7949625Abstract: Automated assistance is provided for managing rules and/or guidelines regarding the usage of branded content for a project, e.g., an advertising campaign, event, signage, decoration, and the like. One or more queries regarding the project are presented to the user. Based on the user's responses to the queries, branded content that is approved for the project's intended use(s) is automatically identified and made available to the user. The determination of which digitized content (media objects) to provide to the user is based at least in part on brand rules and/or guidelines that can be relatively static or dynamically updated by the current user.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2006Date of Patent: May 24, 2011Assignee: Corbis CorporationInventors: Hans Alhden Brough, Jeffrey Michael Paul, Jonathan Frederick Schupp
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Patent number: 7933765Abstract: Multi-lingual search and retrieval of digital content. Embodiments are generally directed to methods and systems for creating an English language database that associates non-English terms with English terms in multiple categories of metadata. Language experts use an interface to create equivalencies between non-English terms and English terms, Boolean expressions, synonyms, and other forms of search terms. Language dictionaries and other sources also create equivalencies. The database is used to evaluate non-English search terms submitted by a user, and to determine English search terms that can be used to perform a search for content. The multiple categories of metadata may comprise structured data, such as keywords of a structured vocabulary, and/or unstructured data, such as captions, titles, descriptions, etc. Weighting and/or prioritization can be applied to the search terms, to the process of searching the multiple categories, and/or to the search results, to rank the search results.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2007Date of Patent: April 26, 2011Assignee: Corbis CorporationInventors: Joel Summerlin, Jarett Funnell, Heike Uhlig, Wayne Yerigan
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Patent number: 7818261Abstract: Process for enabling a content provider and its users to easily manage licenses for intended uses for selected or provided content.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2006Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: Corbis CorporationInventors: David N. Weiskopf, Erling Aspelund
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Patent number: 7797377Abstract: The invention provides a method, system and computer-readable medium for storing images with related information in a relational database and using the information to order available products for a selected image over a network. A unique identifier is generated for each image, allowing different types of searches of the relational database to be performed including product-based and image-based searches. A selection of a returned image causes a cut-down version of the image and all available products to be displayed on a page. If a product is selected, a server enables a transaction for a user to order the selected product. A HTTP Cookie may be employed to store a user identifier, allowing use of user profiles for customization of particular options and displayed products.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2006Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: Corbis CorporationInventors: Debra L. Linker, Stephen David Land, Jeffrey Vincent Gelfuso, William T. Radcliffe