Patents by Inventor Ken Alan Berkun

Ken Alan Berkun 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).

  • METADATA QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
    Publication number: 20110246866
    Abstract: A method and system for improving the quality of original metadata associated with media on a computer network, such as multimedia and streaming media, includes analyzing each field of the URL of the multimedia and streaming media. Each field is analyzed to identify new metadata associated with that field. Identified new metadata is added to the original metadata. In another embodiment, the fields in the URL are reorganized in reverse order and metadata associated with a prefix of fields of the reorganized URL is added to the original metadata. In yet another embodiment, the contents of the field next to the prefix of fields is used to improve the quality of the original metadata.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventors: Aram Christian Abajian, Robin Andrew Alexander, Ken Alan Berkun, Austin David Dahl, John Anthony Derosa, Scott Chao-Chueh Lee, CHARLES A. PORTER, Eric Carl Rehm, Srinivasan Sudanagunta, Jonathan Robert Nowitz
  • Metadata quality improvement
    Patent number: 7925967
    Abstract: A method and system for improving the quality of original metadata associated with media on a computer network, such as multimedia and streaming media, includes analyzing each field of the URL of the multimedia and streaming media. Each field is analyzed to identify new metadata associated with that field. Identified new metadata is added to the original metadata. In another embodiment, the fields in the URL are reorganized in reverse order and metadata associated with a prefix of fields of the reorganized URL is added to the original metadata. In yet another embodiment, the contents of the field next to the prefix of fields is used to improve the quality of the original metadata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: AOL Inc.
    Inventors: Aram Christian Abajian, Robin Andrew Alexander, Ken Alan Berkun, Austin David Dahl, John Anthony Derosa, Scott Chao-Chueh Lee, Charles A. Porter, Eric Carl Rehm, Srinivasan Sudanagunta, Jonathan Robert Nowitz
  • Interpretive stream metadata extraction
    Publication number: 20020103920
    Abstract: A method and system for enhancing metadata associated with media, including multimedia and streaming media, include parsing the metadata into several categories of metadata. The categories of metadata are compared to corresponding categories of metadata obtained from a valid metadata database. The valid metadata database may be obtained from third party databases, referring web pages, and the multimedia/streaming media file itself. The metadata is modified if the comparison indicates that a category of metadata does not match a corresponding category of valid metadata. Modification includes replacing metadata with a corresponding valid metadata, and/or adding metadata to the original metadata.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2001
    Publication date: August 1, 2002
    Inventors: Ken Alan Berkun, Austin David Dahl, Jennifer Lynn Kolar, Scott Chao-Chueh Lee, Shannon E. McRae, Brad Steven Miller, John Prince, Eric Carl Rehm, Srinivasan Sudanagunta, Jonathan Robert Nowitz
  • Metadata quality improvement
    Publication number: 20020099737
    Abstract: A method and system for improving the quality of original metadata associated with media on a computer network, such as multimedia and streaming media, includes analyzing each field of the URL of the multimedia and streaming media. Each field is analyzed to identify new metadata associated with that field. Identified new metadata is added to the original metadata. In another embodiment, the fields in the URL are reorganized in reverse order and metadata associated with a prefix of fields of the reorganized URL is added to the original metadata. In yet another embodiment, the contents of the field next to the prefix of fields is used to improve the quality of the original metadata.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Charles A. Porter, Aram Christian Abajian, Ken Alan Berkun, Austin David Dahl, John Anthony Derosa, Eric Carl Rehm, Srinivasan Sudanagunta, Jonathan Robert Nowitz, Robin Andrew Alexander, Scott Chao-Chueh Lee