Patent Application - SYNDICATION INCLUDING MELODY RECOGNITION AND OPT OUT > Summary

Patent Application No. US 20120124638

Published on May 17, 2012

Application No. 12/945240

Filed on Nov 12, 2010

Priority Date -

King, David G. - San Francisco, CA US (141)

A syndication system facilitates rights management services between media content owners and media hosting services that elect to participate in the syndication system and mutually elect to participate with each other. The syndication system utilizes a content recognition system to identify hosted media content and ownership rights associated with the hosted content. By applying melody recognition, the content recognition system can identify compositions embodied in hosted media content even when these compositions do not precisely match any known sound recording. Thus, the content recognition system is beneficially able to detect, for example, recorded cover performances and recorded live performances embodied in hosted media content. Once identified, ownership information is determined and the syndication system can facilitate rights management policies associated with the content such as monetizing or blocking the protected content.