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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2017
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., Burbank, CA (US);
Kevin Michael Kozan, Seattle, WA (US);
WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC., Burbank, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods for identifying encrypted content in ones of a plurality of encrypted data files in a library of encrypted files without decrypting the data files utilize crowd sourcing for content identification. A method includes selecting, by a computer, content titles for presenting with ones of identifiers for the data files in a data structure. Each of the identifiers includes a hash of metadata for one of the data files and the content titles include a character string that identifies each file's content. The user selection data identifies the content titles that correspond to the data files. The computer determines which content titles satisfy a minimum confidence threshold for associating with one of the identifiers, based on a quality or quantity of the multiple independent clients supplying the user selection data. An apparatus for performing the method includes a memory holding instructions for performing steps of the method as summarized above.