Patents by Inventor Vance Ikezoye

Vance Ikezoye 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).

  • Patent number: 12314315
    Abstract: A system receives a media content item and analyzes the media content item to identify copyrighted material contained therein. Analyzing the media content item includes determining an initial interval for selecting segments of the media content item to be analyzed, generating a first digital fingerprint of a first segment of the media content item, comparing the first digital fingerprint to at least a first subset of a plurality of digital fingerprints of a first plurality of known works to determine whether the first digital fingerprint matches one of the plurality of digital fingerprints of the first plurality of known works, and determining an updated interval for selecting the segments of the media content item to be analyzed based on whether or not a match was found between the first digital fingerprint and one of the plurality of digital fingerprints of the first plurality of known works.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Audio Magic Corporation
    Inventors: Vance Ikezoye, Erling Wold
  • Patent number: 11995609
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a processing device receives a first digital fingerprint of a media item along with a first content management rule. The processing device separately receives a second digital fingerprint of the media item along with a second content management rule. The processing device determines that the received digital fingerprints are for the same media item based upon a match between the first digital fingerprint and the second digital fingerprint. The processing device determines that all rights to the media item have been accounted for, and then determines a set of actions to be performed for hosted media items comprising the media item based at least in part upon the first content management rule and the second content management rule. Processing logic may also perform a conflict resolution process for conflicting rights claims to the media item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Audible Magic Corporation
    Inventors: Vance Ikezoye, David Price Williams, Michael Thomas Edwards, Stephen John Grillos, John R. Williams, James E. McNeill, Jr., Jay Friedman, Kuniyuki Takahashi, Sergio Alberto Orozco Ramos, Jesus Antonio Barajas Romero, Srinidhi Srinivasa Raghavan, Nancy Kang, Garen Levon Azizian, Edgar Escobar Baez
  • Publication number: 20230063864
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a processing device receives a first digital fingerprint of a media item along with a first content management rule. The processing device separately receives a second digital fingerprint of the media item along with a second content management rule. The processing device determines that the received digital fingerprints are for the same media item based upon a match between the first digital fingerprint and the second digital fingerprint. The processing device determines that all rights to the media item have been accounted for, and then determines a set of actions to be performed for hosted media items comprising the media item based at least in part upon the first content management rule and the second content management rule. Processing logic may also perform a conflict resolution process for conflicting rights claims to the media item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Vance Ikezoye, David Price Williams, Michael Thomas Edwards, Stephen John Grillos, John R. Williams, James E. McNeill, JR., Jay Friedman, Kuniyuki Takahashi, Sergio Alberto Orozco Ramos, Jesus Antonio Barajas Romero, Srinidhi Srinivasa Raghavan, Nancy Kang, Garen Levon Azizian, Edgar Escobar Baez
  • Patent number: 11544806
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a processing device receives a first digital fingerprint of a media item along with a first content management rule. The processing device separately receives a second digital fingerprint of the media item along with a second content management rule. The processing device determines that the received digital fingerprints are for the same media item based upon a match between the first digital fingerprint and the second digital fingerprint. The processing device determines that all rights to the media item have been accounted for, and then determines a set of actions to be performed for hosted media items comprising the media item based at least in part upon the first content management rule and the second content management rule. Processing logic may also perform a conflict resolution process for conflicting rights claims to the media item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Audible Magic Corporation
    Inventors: Vance Ikezoye, David Price Williams, Michael Thomas Edwards, Stephen John Grillos, John R. Williams, James E. McNeill, Jr., Jay Friedman, Kuniyuki Takahashi, Sergio Alberto Orozco Ramos, Jesus Antonio Barajas Romero, Srinidhi Srinivasa Raghavan, Nancy Kang, Garen Levon Azizian, Edgar Escobar Baez
  • Patent number: 11288302
    Abstract: A media item may be received by a computing device. One or more works may be identified in the media item. One or more ratios may be determined based on the length of the media item and/or lengths of one or more identified works in the media item. An output may be determined based on the one or more ratios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Audible Magic Corporation
    Inventors: Vance Ikezoye, Jay Friedman, Erling Wold, Michael Thomas Edwards
  • Publication number: 20220027407
    Abstract: A system receives a media content item and analyzes the media content item to identify copyrighted material contained therein. Analyzing the media content item includes determining an initial interval for selecting segments of the media content item to be analyzed, generating a first digital fingerprint of a first segment of the media content item, comparing the first digital fingerprint to at least a first subset of a plurality of digital fingerprints of a first plurality of known works to determine whether the first digital fingerprint matches one of the plurality of digital fingerprints of the first plurality of known works, and determining an updated interval for selecting the segments of the media content item to be analyzed based on whether or not a match was found between the first digital fingerprint and one of the plurality of digital fingerprints of the first plurality of known works.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Vance Ikezoye, Erling Wold
  • Patent number: 11158013
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a processing device receives a request to claim ownership of a first hosted media item on a first media sharing platform, wherein the request is received from a rights holder that holds one or more rights to a claimed media item that is incorporated into the first hosted media item. The processing device adds an indicator of the ownership of the rights holder to a first entry for the first hosted media item in a data store. The processing device determines that a second hosted media item having a threshold similarity to the first hosted media item is hosted by a second media sharing platform. The processing device automatically adds an indicator of the ownership of the rights holder to a second entry for the second hosted media item without receiving a separate request to claim ownership of the second hosted media item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Audible Magic Corporation
    Inventors: Vance Ikezoye, David Price Williams, Michael Thomas Edwards, Stephen John Grillos, John R. Williams, James E. McNeill, Jr., Jay Friedman, Kuniyuki Takahashi, Sergio Alberto Orozco Ramos, Jesus Antonio Barajas Romero, Srinidhi Srinivasa Raghavan, Nancy Kang, Garen Levon Azizian, Edgar Escobar Baez
  • Publication number: 20200273123
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a processing device receives a first digital fingerprint of a media item along with a first content management rule. The processing device separately receives a second digital fingerprint of the media item along with a second content management rule. The processing device determines that the received digital fingerprints are for the same media item based upon a match between the first digital fingerprint and the second digital fingerprint. The processing device determines that all rights to the media item have been accounted for, and then determines a set of actions to be performed for hosted media items comprising the media item based at least in part upon the first content management rule and the second content management rule. Processing logic may also perform a conflict resolution process for conflicting rights claims to the media item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Vance Ikezoye, David Price Williams, Michael Thomas Edwards, Stephen John Grillos, John R. Williams, James E. McNeill, JR., Jay Friedman, Kuniyuki Takahashi, Sergio Alberto Orozco Ramos, Jesus Antonio Barajas Romero, Srinidhi Srinivasa Raghavan, Nancy Kang, Garen Levon Azizian, Edgar Escobar Baez
  • Publication number: 20200275167
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a processing device receives a request to claim ownership of a first hosted media item on a first media sharing platform, wherein the request is received from a rights holder that holds one or more rights to a claimed media item that is incorporated into the first hosted media item. The processing device adds an indicator of the ownership of the rights holder to a first entry for the first hosted media item in a data store. The processing device determines that a second hosted media item having a threshold similarity to the first hosted media item is hosted by a second media sharing platform. The processing device automatically adds an indicator of the ownership of the rights holder to a second entry for the second hosted media item without receiving a separate request to claim ownership of the second hosted media item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Vance Ikezoye, David Price Williams, Michael Thomas Edwards, Stephen John Grillos, John R. Williams, James E. McNeill, JR., Jay Friedman, Kuniyuki Takahashi, Sergio Alberto Orozco Ramos, Jesus Antonio Barajas Romero, Srinidhi Srinivasa Raghavan, Nancy Kang, Garen Levon Azizian, Edgar Escobar Baez
  • Publication number: 20200175055
    Abstract: A media item may be received by a computing device. One or more works may be identified in the media item. One or more ratios may be determined based on the length of the media item and/or lengths of one or more identified works in the media item. An output may be determined based on the one or more ratios.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Vance Ikezoye, Jay Friedman, Erling Wold, Michael Thomas Edwards
  • Patent number: 10599702
    Abstract: A media item may be received by a computing device. One or more works may be identified in the media item. One or more ratios may be determined based on the length of the media item and/or lengths of one or more identified works in the media item. An output may be determined based on the one or more ratios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Audible Magic Corporation
    Inventors: Vance Ikezoye, Jay Friedman, Erling Wold, Michael Thomas Edwards
  • Patent number: 10476925
    Abstract: A media stream cue point creator receives a media stream comprising at least one of an audio portion or a video portion, wherein the media stream lacks at least one indicator of a content segment within the media stream. The media stream cue point creator identifies a first segment of the plurality of segments of the media stream, wherein the segment corresponds to a segment in a segment reference data store, and creates a cue point associated with the first segment, wherein the cue point identifies at least one of a beginning or an end of the first content segment in the media stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Audible Magic Corporation
    Inventors: Jim Schrempp, Rob Williams, Vance Ikezoye, Dave Avery, Erling Wold, Alan Edel
  • Publication number: 20190108227
    Abstract: A media item may be received by a computing device. One or more works may be identified in the media item. One or more ratios may be determined based on the length of the media item and/or lengths of one or more identified works in the media item. An output may be determined based on the one or more ratios.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Vance Ikezoye, Jay Friedman, Erling Wold, Michael Thomas Edwards
  • Publication number: 20190036998
    Abstract: A media stream cue point creator receives a media stream comprising at least one of an audio portion or a video portion, wherein the media stream lacks at least one indicator of a content segment within the media stream. The media stream cue point creator identifies a first segment of the plurality of segments of the media stream, wherein the segment corresponds to a segment in a segment reference data store, and creates a cue point associated with the first segment, wherein the cue point identifies at least one of a beginning or an end of the first content segment in the media stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Jim Schrempp, Rob Williams, Vance Ikezoye, Dave Avery, Erling Wold, Alan Edel
  • Patent number: 10091263
    Abstract: A media stream cue point creator receives a media stream comprising at least one of an audio portion or a video portion, wherein the media stream lacks at least one indicator of a content segment within the media stream. The media stream cue point creator identifies a first segment of the plurality of segments of the media stream, wherein the segment corresponds to a segment in a segment reference data store, and creates a cue point associated with the first segment, wherein the cue point identifies at least one of a beginning or an end of the first content segment in the media stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Audible Magic Corporation
    Inventors: Jim Schrempp, Rob Williams, Vance Ikezoye, Dave Avery, Erling Wold, Alan Edel
  • Patent number: 10025841
    Abstract: A method and system for playlist generation is disclosed. In one aspect, the system may include at least one analysis module for receiving and analyzing an unknown work and generating a corresponding representation thereof, and at least one identification (ID) server for receiving the representation from the analysis modules and determining the identity of the unknown work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Audible Magic, Inc.
    Inventors: James B. Schrempp, Vance Ikezoye, Erling H. Wold, Thomas L. Blum, Douglas F. Keislar, James A. Wheaton
  • Patent number: 10009342
    Abstract: An authenticator in a second user device captures a media sample played on a first user device in proximity to the second user device. The media sample comprises at least one of an audio portion, a video portion or an image portion of a media stream received by the first user device from a remote media streaming source over a network. The authenticator sends at least a portion of the media sample from the second user device to an authentication server, the authentication server to compare the at least the portion of the media sample to a reference media stream received from the remote media streaming source to determine that the second user device is authenticated for viewing the media stream responsive to the portion of the media sample matching the reference media stream. The authenticator then receives an authentication decision from the authentication server at the second user device, the authentication decision indicating whether the second user device is authenticated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Audible Magic Corporation
    Inventors: Jim Schrempp, Vance Ikezoye
  • Publication number: 20180048644
    Abstract: An authenticator in a second user device captures a media sample played on a first user device in proximity to the second user device. The media sample comprises at least one of an audio portion, a video portion or an image portion of a media stream received by the first user device from a remote media streaming source over a network. The authenticator sends at least a portion of the media sample from the second user device to an authentication server, the authentication server to compare the at least the portion of the media sample to a reference media stream received from the remote media streaming source to determine that the second user device is authenticated for viewing the media stream responsive to the portion of the media sample matching the reference media stream. The authenticator then receives an authentication decision from the authentication server at the second user device, the authentication decision indicating whether the second user device is authenticated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: Jim Schrempp, Vance Ikezoye
  • Patent number: 9800576
    Abstract: An authenticator in a second user device captures a media sample comprising at least one of an audio portion, a video portion or an image portion. The media sample is played on a first user device. The authenticator compares at least a portion of the media sample to a reference media stream to determine whether the portion of the media sample matches the reference media stream. If the portion of the media sample matches the reference media stream, the authenticator determines that the second user device is authenticated and requests a media stream from a media streaming source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Audible Magic Corporation
    Inventors: Jim Schrempp, Vance Ikezoye
  • Publication number: 20160105428
    Abstract: An authenticator in a second user device captures a media sample comprising at least one of an audio portion, a video portion or an image portion. The media sample is played on a first user device. The authenticator compares at least a portion of the media sample to a reference media stream to determine whether the portion of the media sample matches the reference media stream. If the portion of the media sample matches the reference media stream, the authenticator determines that the second user device is authenticated and requests a media stream from a media streaming source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Jim Schrempp, Vance Ikezoye