Disney patents system to find similar media when exact match fails
This filing describes a method for retrieving digital assets, such as images or videos, from a database. If the specific asset requested cannot be found using a provided word sequence, the system calculates how similar other assets are to the requested one based on their content. It then returns the closest matching asset instead of failing the request.
In the filing’s own words
In some embodiments, a method receives a request for a first asset. The request includes a word permutation. The method determines whether the first asset can be retrieved from a database using the word permutation. Responsive to determining the first asset cannot be retrieved, the method determines a second asset representation for a second asset that is within a threshold to a first asset representation in a space. The asset representations are encoded into the space based on contents of respective assets. Also, the method returns the second asset for the request. Responsive to determining the first asset cannot be retrieved: the method retrieves the first asset from the database and returns the first asset for the request.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method comprising: receiving a request for a first asset, the request including a word permutation; determining whether the first asset can be retrieved from a database using the word permutation; responsive to determining the first asset cannot be retrieved: determining a second asset representation for a second asset that is within a threshold to a first asset representation in a space, wherein asset representations are encoded into the space based on contents of respective assets; and returning the second asset for the request; and responsive to determining the first asset can be retrieved: retrieving the first asset from the database; and returning the first asset for the request.
Facts
- Company
- Disney (Disney Enterprises, Inc.)
- Official title
- ASSET STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL USING WORD PERMUTATIONS
- Publication number
- US20260278002A1
- Application number
- 19076483
- Filed
- Mar 11, 2025
- Published
- Sep 17, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 16/9014 Physics & computingG06F 16/2291 Physics & computingMore from Disney in AI & software
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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