Method for managing media files

• US 20040006577A1
• Filed: 07/02/2002
• Published: 01/08/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ulead Systems, Inc (Corel Holdings LP)
• Original Assignee: Ulead Systems, Inc (Corel Holdings LP)
• Inventors: Rix, Malcolm
• Application Number:
  US10/186,672
• Publication Number:
  US 20040006577A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/200
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually

Abstract

A method for managing media files. The method comprises the steps of storing a plurality of rating tags, receiving a first command, linking the rating tags to the media files according to the first command, receiving a second command, and processing the media files linked to the same rating tag according to the second command.

Claims

1. A method for managing media files comprising the steps of:

storing a plurality of rating tags;

receiving a first command;

linking the rating tags to the media files according to the first command;

receiving a second command; and

processing the media files linked to the same rating tag according to the second command.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the media files are images.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the media files are videos.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the media files are sounds.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the media files are albums.

6. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the processing step is to print the images linked to a first rating tag larger than the images linked to a second rating tag according to the second command.

7. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the processing step is to make the images linked to a first rating tag lighter than the images linked to a second rating tag according to the second command.

8. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the processing step is to view the images linked to a first rating tag for longer than the images linked to a second rating tag according to the second command.

9. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the processing step is to move the images linked to the same rating tag into a folder according to the second command.

10. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising the step of:

displaying the media files in thumbnails and the rating tags linked thereto.

11. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising the steps of

receiving a third command;

and

removing the rating tags from the linked media files.

12. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising the step of:

searching the media files linked to the same rating tag.

13. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the rating tags are stored within the linked media files.

14. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the rating tags are stored in a file in a folder where the media files are stored.