DETAILED ACTION
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Double Patenting
The nonstatutory double patenting rejection is based on a judicially created doctrine grounded in public policy (a policy reflected in the statute) so as to prevent the unjustified or improper timewise extension of the “right to exclude” granted by a patent and to prevent possible harassment by multiple assignees. A nonstatutory double patenting rejection is appropriate where the claims at issue are not identical, but at least one examined application claim is not patentably distinct from the reference claim(s) because the examined application claim is either anticipated by, or would have been obvious over, the reference claim(s). See, e.g., In re Berg, 140 F.3d 1428, 46 USPQ2d 1226 (Fed. Cir. 1998); In re Goodman, 11 F.3d 1046, 29 USPQ2d 2010 (Fed. Cir. 1993); In re Longi, 759 F.2d 887, 225 USPQ 645 (Fed. Cir. 1985); In re Van Ornum, 686 F.2d 937, 214 USPQ 761 (CCPA 1982); In re Vogel, 422 F.2d 438, 164 USPQ 619 (CCPA 1970); and In re Thorington, 418 F.2d 528, 163 USPQ 644 (CCPA 1969).
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Claims 1-5, 9-10, 12, 14 and 16-20 are rejected on the ground of nonstatutory double patenting as being unpatentable over claims 1-20 of US Patent 12,192,582. Although the claims at issue are not identical, they are not patentably distinct from each other because the limitations of the claims of the instant application are anticipated in every aspect by the limitations of the patented claims, with the exception of the limitation of “removing the video stream from a video streaming platform”. However, that limitation is obvious over the patented claims in view of Kandpal et al. (US20220327322), and modifying the patented claims to include the limitation would have been obvious to a person having ordinary skill in the art before the effective date of the invention for the advantage of maintaining authorized usage.
The analysis is as follows, with the matching limitations between the US Patent and the instant application, respectively:
US Patent
12,192,582
Instant Application
18/968765
1. A method comprising, for a first streaming event at a streaming platform:
during a first time period:
accessing a set of content logs for a population of content distribution networks including a set of streaming metrics for a video stream;
identifying an asset associated with the video stream;
accessing an asset profile for the asset, the asset profile including a set of profile parameters; and
computing a risk score for the asset according to a score range and based on a subset of profile parameters; and
during a second time period:
monitoring the set of streaming metrics for the video stream during a set of time intervals of a first duration during a first time window;
in response to a first streaming metric, in the set of streaming metrics, for the first video stream exceeding a threshold metric during the first time window,
accessing a conflict log including a set of flagged assets;
in response to identifying absence of the asset in the conflict log:
retrieving the risk score for the asset;
extracting a set of image frames from the video stream according to an image extraction frequency;
executing an image classification model based on the set of image frames to characterize the image frames according to a set of tags;
retrieving a content manifest associated with a content type of the video stream, the content manifest defining a set of target concepts related to the content type;
deriving a difference between the set of tags associated with the set of image frames to the set of target concepts in the content manifest to compute a match score for the video stream;
in response to the match score exceeding a threshold score:
flagging the video stream for manual authentication; and
delivering the video stream to an interface associated with an operator; and
in response to receiving an abuse confirmation for the video stream from the operator:
generating a notification descriptive of the abuse confirmation;
transmitting the notification to the asset; and
performing an action on the asset profile based on the risk score for the asset; and
in response to identifying the asset in the conflict log:
identifying the asset profile associated with the asset; and
automatically deactivating the asset profile to prevent the first streaming event of the video stream via the streaming platform.
1. A method comprising:
monitoring a set of streaming metrics of a video stream associated with an asset;
in response to a first streaming metric, in the set of streaming metrics, exceeding a threshold metric,
accessing a conflict log comprising a set of flagged assets;
in response to absence of the asset in the conflict log:
extracting a set of image frames from the video stream;
executing an image classification model on the set of image frames to derive a set of derived tags characterizing the set of image frames;
retrieving a set of target tags related to a content type of the video stream;
calculating a match score for the video stream based on a similarity between the set of derived tags and the set of target tags;
in response to the match score exceeding a threshold score,
generating a prompt to review the video stream;
serving the prompt to an operator; and
in response to receiving an abuse confirmation for the video stream from the operator:
generating a notification descriptive of the abuse confirmation;
transmitting the notification to the asset; and
automatically removing the video stream from a video streaming platform.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 6-8, 11, 13 and 15 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure: US20170357782, US20150302886, US20080178302 US10437965 US20190028766.
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/CHENEA DAVIS/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2421