EP3340069A1 · European Patent · Also registered in the United States
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Automated Script Analysis and Box Office Prediction

What it covers

ScriptBook's core patent covers a computer-implemented system for analysing a screenplay using machine learning and natural language processing — and from that analysis alone, generating quantitative predictions about a film's commercial performance, target audience, MPAA rating, and critical reception.

The system processes a screenplay as a structured text document, extracting features related to story structure, character dynamics, dialogue patterns, genre markers, and narrative arc. These features are used to produce financial forecasts and audience analytics, with documented classification accuracy of up to 86% for box office success and failure.

This technology forms the operational core of ScriptBook's commercial platform — used by film producers, distributors, sales agents, and financiers across Europe and North America. The underlying technique for deriving static script vectors (used to represent a film's narrative fingerprint) is cited in the second patent below.

Natural Language Processing Box Office Prediction Machine Learning Screenplay Analysis Film Industry AI Financial Forecasting Greenlight Decision Support
US20200334336A1 · United States Patent Application · Filed 2019 · Published 2020
Cited by 5 patents

Generation of Scripted Narratives

What it covers

This patent covers a novel machine learning method for automatically generating scripted narratives — screenplays, TV scripts, theatre plays, and game dialogue — that goes significantly beyond prior art by introducing what ScriptBook called "story-awareness."

The core innovation is representing a screenplay internally as a sequence of annotated sentences, where each sentence carries a paragraph type (scene header, action, dialogue, parenthetical) and character reference tokens linked to specific character identities. This architecture enables the model to maintain character consistency, narrative coherence, and structural integrity across long-form generated text — a problem that defeated all prior approaches to automated screenplay generation.

The patent further covers character DNA profiling (per-character encodings that evolve dynamically across scenes), static biasing narrative encodings (steering generation toward a desired style or genre based on an existing script), positional encodings for controlling script length, synopsis-based generation, and a discriminator component that evaluates and rejects generated sentences below a quality threshold.

Filed in April 2019 and published in October 2020 — years before the public release of GPT-style large language models. The patent has since been cited by five subsequent patents, including filings by Oracle International Corporation.

Generative AI Scripted Narrative Generation Character DNA Modelling Natural Language Generation LSTM / Transformer Story-Awareness

Why this matters

The only patented AI in screenplay analysis.

While newer competitors layer GPT wrappers over screenplay text, ScriptBook's core IP was registered, examined, and granted by the European Patent Office and the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Patented technology is defensible, citable, and durable — it is the foundation that makes ScriptBook's accuracy claim possible.

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