Method and system for managing digital assets
First Claim
12. A system for managing a plurality of digital assets, comprising:
- a memory for storing a plurality of digital assets;
a processor in communication with said memory for manipulating said plurality of digital assets; and
a ranking module in communication with said processor and said memory to rank said digital assets based on user manipulation of said digital assets;
wherein said memory is responsive to said rank of said digital assets to store said digital assets with higher ranked digital assets more easily accessed than lower ranked digital assets.
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Abstract
The claimed invention enables digital asset management that is responsive to a user'"'"'s interactions with digital assets. Based on the user'"'"'s interaction, the invention generates a ranking of the digital assets that is intended to reflect the value of the digital assets to the user. The ranking is based in part on the access frequency and recency, and the number and types of uses of the digital assets. An access hierarchy is derived from the ranking that stores the digital assets so that the higher ranked digital assets are more easily accessed than the lower ranked digital assets. The digital assets can include any of digital images, audio files, and Uniform Resource Locators. The invention can also distinguish between different types of uses so that some types of uses imbue an asset with greater value than others. The types of uses include passive viewing or playback, file sharing, transport, and editing. The invention also allows the user to assign subjective values to each digital asset that can be factored into the ranking independently of usage patterns. A volatility-dampening attribute is provided to moderate volatility in the access hierarchy.
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30 Claims
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12. A system for managing a plurality of digital assets, comprising:
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a memory for storing a plurality of digital assets;
a processor in communication with said memory for manipulating said plurality of digital assets; and
a ranking module in communication with said processor and said memory to rank said digital assets based on user manipulation of said digital assets;
wherein said memory is responsive to said rank of said digital assets to store said digital assets with higher ranked digital assets more easily accessed than lower ranked digital assets. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A method for managing storage of, and access to URL'"'"'s, comprising the steps of:
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creating a navigation history of URL'"'"'s activated during a first browsing session at a first device located on a network;
at the conclusion of said browsing session, saving said navigation history at a location accessible to a plurality of networked devices;
initiating a second browsing session at a second device located on said network; and
accessing said navigation history at said second device for use during said second browsing session. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25)
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26. A method for managing a list of URL'"'"'s that is automatically responsive to a user'"'"'s Web navigation history, comprising the steps of:
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creating a Web navigation history that records Web sites visited by said user;
assigning scores to each of said URL'"'"'s in said Web navigation history based on use of said URL'"'"'s;
creating an access hierarchy of said URL'"'"'s based on said scores, wherein URL'"'"'s having higher scores are more easily accessed than URL'"'"'s having lower scores. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29)
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30-1. The method of claim 30, further comprising the step of:
allowing said user to define said predetermined threshold.
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