METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING DIGITAL ASSETS
First Claim
1. A method for managing digital assets, comprising the steps of:
- monitoring any of access and navigation to said digital assets by a user;
identifying one or more types of use of any of said accessed and navigated digital assets by said user associated with said monitoring step, wherein said types of use comprise any of visitation, playback, viewing, activation, sharing, transporting, and editing;
assigning a score based on each identified type of use by said user associated with said monitoring step;
ranking said accessed digital assets based on accumulation of said assigned scores of said digital assets; and
providing an access hierarchy comprising any of hierarchical storage and hierarchical listing said ranked digital assets based on said ranking step, wherein highly ranked digital assets are more easily accessed by the same said user 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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1. A method for managing digital assets, comprising the steps of:
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monitoring any of access and navigation to said digital assets by a user;
identifying one or more types of use of any of said accessed and navigated digital assets by said user associated with said monitoring step, wherein said types of use comprise any of visitation, playback, viewing, activation, sharing, transporting, and editing;
assigning a score based on each identified type of use by said user associated with said monitoring step;
ranking said accessed digital assets based on accumulation of said assigned scores of said digital assets; and
providing an access hierarchy comprising any of hierarchical storage and hierarchical listing said ranked digital assets based on said ranking step, wherein highly ranked digital assets are more easily accessed by the same said user than lower ranked digital assets. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A system for managing digital assets, comprising:
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means for monitoring any of access and navigation to said digital assets by a user;
means for identifying one or more types of use of any of said accessed or navigated digital assets by said user associated with said monitored access or navigation, wherein said types of use comprise any of visitation, passive playback, passive viewing, activation, sharing, transporting, and editing;
means for assigning a score based on each identified type of use by said user associated with said monitored access or navigation;
a ranking module in communication with said score assignment means to rank said digital assets based on accumulation of said assigned scores; and
means for providing an access hierarchy comprising any of hierarchical storage and hierarchical listing said ranked digital assets based on said rank of said digital assets, whereby higher ranked digital assets are more easily accessed by the same said user than lower ranked digital assets. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A method for managing a list of uniform resource locators (URL'"'"'s) that is automatically responsive to a Web navigation of a user, comprising the steps of:
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creating a Web navigation history associated with one or more browsing sessions by said user through one or more devices associated with a network, wherein said navigation history comprises any of Web sites visited by said user, URL'"'"'s activated by said user, URL'"'"'s shared by said user, and URL'"'"'s transported by said user;
identifying types of use by said user associated with said navigation history, wherein said types of use comprise any of visitation activation, sharing, and transporting;
assigning scores corresponding to each identified type of use by said user of said URL'"'"'s in said Web navigation history based on use of said URL'"'"'s;
ranking said URLs based on accumulation of said assigned scores; and
providing an access hierarchy comprising any of hierarchical storage and hierarchical listing of said ranked URL'"'"'s in a memory based on said ranking step, wherein higher ranked URL'"'"'s are more easily accessed from said memory by the same said user than lower ranked URL'"'"'s. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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