Google Inc.

Intuit, Inc.

Kyle Garner Harrison

David G King

Andrew Swerdlow

Dan Fredinburg

Michael W Brandt

Travis Harrison Kroll Green

Umesh Shankar

Tomer Amarilio

Tilke Mary Judd

Jonathan McPhie

Brandon Kyle Trew

Mor Miller

Sara Lee Su

Hristo Stefanov Stefanov

Peter Klein

Gregory Dardyk

Kevin M Reeth, Ii

Christoph Urs Oehler

Mark Russell Thomas

Marlo James McGriff, Ii

Etienne DeGuine

Si-Wai Yan Lai

Giora Unger

Bao Lam

Edwin L McClung

Gerard James Sulentic

Lauren A Schmidt

Geva Rechav

Alison Michelle Huml

Joseph Adam Taylor

Max Michiel Loubser

Jose Javier Zuniga, Jr

David King

An item of hosted content is received from a media host. A match metric representing an aspect of a match between the item of hosted content and an item of reference content, the item of reference content provided by a content owner having rights to the item of reference content. A policy associated with the item of reference content is identified responsive to the value to that represents the correspondence, the policy including terms of use for the hosted content. The policy is provided to the media host.

Policy based video content syndication

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.

Syndication including melody recognition and opt out

A method includes gathering a plurality of instances of online activity associated with a user, analyzing the plurality of instances of online activity to determine a characteristic that is likely to correspond to a profile attribute of the user and generating a profile enrichment suggestion for the user based on the determined characteristic.

Identity crowd-sourced curation

In accordance with one embodiment, a method and apparatus for linking businesses to customers through a trusted source network includes creating and providing an authenticated rating and review/referral database. The authenticated rating and review/referral database is then used as a central hub to distribute authenticated ratings and reviews to various interested parties in one or more trusted source networks and/or through one or more portals linked to existing trusted source networks.

Method and apparatus for linking businesses to potential customers through a trusted source network

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Los Altos, CA, United States of America

Kyle Garner Harrison