Aram C Abajian

6847977, Jan 25, 2005

Jun 11, 2001

09/878877

Aram Christian Abajian - Seattle WA, US

America Online, Inc. - Dulles VA

G06F 1730

707102, 707 4, 707 10, 709223

A method and system for grouping metadata search results associated with media on a computer network, such as multimedia and streaming media include binning and iterative masking. The media metadata has an associated media file, which has an associated uniform resource locator (URL). Each URL has at least one field, and each field has at least one character. Binning includes selecting, sorting, and putting URLs having a common attribute into the same bin. Masking includes creating a mask of masking characters. Each field in each URL in each bin is compare with the mask. If a masking character matches a character in a field, the character in the field is removed from the field. This produces at least one resultant URL, i. e. , URL that has been compared with a mask. Identical resultant URLs are collapsing into one URL.

7720836, May 18, 2010

Jul 7, 2004

10/886946

Aram Christian Abajian - Seattle WA, US
Robin Andrew Alexander - Redmond WA, US
Scott Chao-Chueh Lee - Bellevue WA, US
Austin David Dahl - Seattle WA, US
John Anthony Derosa - Seattle WA, US
Charles A. Porter - Seattle WA, US
Eric Carl Rehm - Bainbridge Island WA, US
Jennifer Lynn Kolar - Seattle WA, US
Srinivasan Sudanagunta - Seattle WA, US

AOL Inc. - Dulles VA

G06F 17/30

707711, 707755

A method and system for utilizing metadata to search for media, such as multimedia and streaming media, includes searching for the media, receiving results, extracting metadata associated with the media, enhancing the extracted metadata, and grouping the search results in accordance with attributes of the enhanced metadata. Enhancing and grouping include adding related metadata to the database of metadata, iteratively using metadata to search for more media related data, removing duplicate URLs, collapsing URLs that are variants of each other, and masking out superfluous terms from URLs. The resultant metadata and media files are available to users and search engines.

7752186, Jul 6, 2010

Dec 20, 2004

11/018555

Aram Christian Abajian - Seattle WA, US

AOL Inc. - Dulles VA

G06F 17/30

707705, 707790

A method and system for grouping metadata search results associated with media on a computer network, such as multimedia and streaming media include binning and iterative masking. The media metadata has an associated media file, which has an associated uniform resource locator (URL). Each URL has at least one field, and each field has at least one character. Binning includes selecting, sorting, and putting URLs having a common attribute into the same bin. Masking includes creating a mask of masking characters. Each field in each URL in each bin is compare with the mask. If a masking character matches a character in a field, the character in the field is removed from the field. This produces at least one resultant URL, i. e. , URL that has been compared with a mask. Identical resultant URLs are collapsing into one URL.

7925967, Apr 12, 2011

Jun 8, 2001

09/876942

Aram Christian Abajian - Seattle WA, US
Robin Andrew Alexander - Redmond WA, US
Ken Alan Berkun - Seattle WA, US
Austin David Dahl - Seattle WA, US
John Anthony Derosa - Seattle WA, US
Scott Chao-Chueh Lee - Bellevue WA, US
Charles A. Porter - Seattle WA, US
Eric Carl Rehm - Bainbridge Island WA, US
Srinivasan Sudanagunta - Seattle WA, US
Jonathan Robert Nowitz - Seattle WA, US

AOL Inc. - Dulles VA

G06F 15/00

715201, 715206, 715208, 707 1, 707 3, 707 5

A method and system for improving the quality of original metadata associated with media on a computer network, such as multimedia and streaming media, includes analyzing each field of the URL of the multimedia and streaming media. Each field is analyzed to identify new metadata associated with that field. Identified new metadata is added to the original metadata. In another embodiment, the fields in the URL are reorganized in reverse order and metadata associated with a prefix of fields of the reorganized URL is added to the original metadata. In yet another embodiment, the contents of the field next to the prefix of fields is used to improve the quality of the original metadata.

8209311, Jun 26, 2012

Jul 1, 2010

12/828780

Aram Christian Abajian - Seattle WA, US

AOL Inc. - Dulles VA

G06F 17/30

707705

A method and system for grouping metadata search results associated with media on a computer network, such as multimedia and streaming media include binning and iterative masking. The media metadata has an associated media file, which has an associated uniform resource locator (URL). Each URL has at least one field, and each field has at least one character. Binning includes selecting, sorting, and putting URLs having a common attribute into the same bin. Masking includes creating a mask of masking characters. Each field in each URL in each bin is compare with the mask. If a masking character matches a character in a field, the character in the field is removed from the field. This produces at least one resultant URL, i. e. , URL that has been compared with a mask. Identical resultant URLs are collapsing into one URL.

20020099695, Jul 25, 2002

Jun 8, 2001

09/876941

Aram Abajian - Seattle WA, US
Robin Alexander - Redmond WA, US
Scott Lee - Bellevue WA, US
Austin Dahl - Seattle WA, US
John Derosa - Seattle WA, US
Charles Porter - Seattle WA, US
Eric Rehm - Bainbridge Island WA, US
Jennifer Kolar - Seattle WA, US
Srinivasan Sudanagunta - Seattle WA, US

G06F007/00

707/003000

A method and system for utilizing metadata to search for media, such as multimedia and streaming media, includes searching for the media, receiving results, extracting metadata associated with the media, enhancing the extracted metadata, and grouping the search results in accordance with attributes of the enhanced metadata. Enhancing and grouping include adding related metadata to the database of metadata, iteratively using metadata to search for more media related data, removing duplicate URLs, collapsing URLs that are variants of each other, and masking out superfluous terms from URLs. The resultant metadata and media files are available to users and search engines.

20030061490, Mar 27, 2003

Sep 23, 2002

10/252903

Aram Abajian - Seattle WA, US

H04L009/00

713/176000, 713/200000

A method for locating media objects that violate the copyright of copyright holders through the use of a fingerprinting media objects. The system develops a fingerprint profile for a specified media object, matches the fingerprint profile against the fingerprint profiles of located media objects. Based upon the data of matched media objects, the method outputs the location of matched media objects as a uniform resource indicator. The method optionally considers a user profile before matching a fingerprint profile of a specified media object against fingerprint profiles of located media objects.

20100287159, Nov 11, 2010

May 14, 2010

12/780571

Aram Christian ABAJIAN - Seattle WA, US
Robin Andrew Alexander - Redmond WA, US
Scott Chao-Chueh Lee - Bellevue WA, US
Austin David Dahl - Seattle WA, US
John Anthony Derosa - Seattle WA, US
Charles A. Porter - Seattle WA, US
Eric Carl Rehm - Bainbridge Island WA, US
Jennifer Lynn Kolar - Seattle WA, US
Srinivasan Sudanagunta - Seattle WA, US

G06F 17/30

707723, 707722, 707E17014, 707769, 707E17005

A method and system for utilizing metadata to search for media, such as multimedia and streaming media, includes searching for the media, receiving results, extracting metadata associated with the media, enhancing the extracted metadata, and grouping the search results in accordance with attributes of the enhanced metadata. Enhancing and grouping include adding related metadata to the database of metadata, iteratively using metadata to search for more media related data, removing duplicate URLs, collapsing URLs that are variants of each other, and masking out superfluous terms from URLs. The resultant metadata and media files are available to users and search engines.