System and method thereof for dynamically associating a link to an information resource with a multimedia content displayed in a web-page

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11954168-B2
Application number	US-202016835701-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 31, 2020
Priority date	Oct 26, 2005
Publication date	Apr 9, 2024
Grant date	Apr 9, 2024

Abstract

A method for associating a link to web content with a multimedia content element are provided. The method includes identifying at least one multimedia content element in a web-page; generating, by a signature generator system, a signature for the at least one multimedia content element, wherein the signature generator system includes a plurality of computational cores enabled to receive the multimedia content element and to generate a signature for at least a portion of the multimedia content element, each computational core having properties that are at least partly statistically independent of the other computational cores; matching the generated signature to signatures of web content existing on at least one web server to determine matching web content; determining a link to the matching web content; and modifying the at least one multimedia content by adding the link.

First claim

We claim:

1. A method for associating a link to web content with an image, comprising:
identifying an image in a web-page;
generating, by a signature generator system, a signature for the image, wherein the signature generator system includes a plurality of computational cores enabled to receive the image and to generate a signature for at least a portion of the image, each computational core having properties that are statistically independent of the other computational cores;
matching the generated signature to signatures of web server content existing on at least one web server to determine matching web server content;
determining a link to the matching web server content; and
modifying the image by adding the link to provide a modified image.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: detecting a user gesture respective of the added link; and upon detecting the user gesture, causing a display of the web server content.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the user gesture is any of: a scroll on the image, a click on the image, and a response to the at least one image.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: determining the context of the image respective of the generated signature, wherein the link is determined based on the context.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the link is added to the image as an overlay object.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein generating a signature for the image further comprises: generating a signature for each portion of the image; and
clustering the signatures for the portions into a signature cluster, wherein the signature for the image is the signature cluster.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the matching is performed by the plurality of computational cores.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
modifying the web-page to provide a modified web-page by adding the modified image; and
sending the modified web-page to a browser requesting the web-page.

9. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions for causing one or more processing units to execute the steps of:
identifying an image in a web-page;
generating, by a signature generator system, a signature for the image, wherein the signature generator system includes a plurality of computational cores enabled to receive the image and to generate a signature for at least a portion of the image, each computational core having properties that are statistically independent of the other computational cores;
matching the generated signature to signatures of web server content existing on at least one web server to determine matching web server content;
determining a link to the matching web server content; and
modifying the image by adding the link to provide a modified image.

10. A system for associating a link to web content with an image from a web-page, comprising:
an interface to a network for receiving the web-page containing the image, wherein a uniform resource locator (URL) of the web-page is received from any one of a user device and a web server hosting the web-page;
a processing unit; and
a memory, the memory containing instructions that, when executed by the processing system, configure the system to:
identify an image in a web-page;
generate, by a signature generator system, a signature for the image, wherein the signature generator system includes a plurality of computational cores enabled to receive the image and to generate a signature for at least a portion of the image, each computational core having properties that are statistically independent of the other computational cores;
match the generated signature to signatures of web server content existing on at least one web server to determine matching web server content;
determine a link to the matching web server content; and
modify the image to provide a modified image by adding the link.

11. The system of claim 10 , wherein the system is further configured to: detect a user gesture respective of the added link; and upon detecting the user gesture, cause a display of the web server content.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the user gesture is any of: a scroll on the image, a click on the image, and a response to the image.

13. The system of claim 10 , wherein the system is further configured to:
determine the context of the image respective of the generated signature, wherein the link is determined based on the context.

14. The system of claim 13 , wherein the link is added to the image as an overlay object.

15. The system of claim 10 , wherein the system is further configured to:
generate a signature for each portion of the image; and
cluster the signatures for the portions into a signature cluster, wherein the signature for the image is the signature cluster.

16. The system of claim 10 , wherein the matching is performed by the plurality of computational cores.

17. The system of claim 10 , wherein the system is further configured to:
modify the web-page to provide a modified web-page by adding the modified at least one multimedia content; and
send the modified web-page to a browser requesting the web-page.

Assignees

• Cortica Ltd

Inventors

• Raichelgauz Igal
• Odinaev Karina
• Zeevi Yehoshua Y

Classifications

• G06F16/9566 Primary

  URL specific, e.g. using aliases, detecting broken or misspelled links · CPC title

• G06F3/04842

  Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements (G06F3/0482 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06F3/0485 Primary

  Scrolling or panning · CPC title

• G06F16/583

  using metadata automatically derived from the content · CPC title

• G06V10/40

  Extraction of image or video features · CPC title