SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING AND UTILIZING METADATA REGARDING THE STRUCTURE OF PROGRAM CONTENT

• US 20090093278A1
• Filed: 12/15/2008
• Published: 04/09/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Universal Electronics, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Universal Electronics, Inc.
• Inventors: Negron, Eric, Hayes, Patrick H., Black, Jeremy K.
• Granted Patent: US 8,868,614 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/567
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/102 Programmed access in sequence to addressed parts of tracks of operating record carriers access by moving the head G11B3/08, G11B5/54, G11B7/085, G11B21/022; by moving the record carrier G11B15/005, G11B17/005, by driving of both record carrier and head G11B15/1816
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/11 by using information not detectable on the record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/36 Monitoring, i.e. supervising the progress of recording or reproducing for digital recording G11B20/00 and s.gr.; for monitoring, testing or measuring of TV recorders of the type covered by H04N5/76 and subgroups, see H04N17/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4147 PVR [Personal Video Recorder] H04N5/76 takes precedence ; arrangements for broadcast with accumulation-type receivers H04H20/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4325 by playing back content from the storage medium reproduction of recorded television signals H04N5/76; reproduction of recorded television signals H04N9/79
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/440281 by altering the temporal resolution, e.g. by frame skipping television signal recording using magnetic recording on tape for reproducing at a rate different from the recording rate H04N5/783
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44204 Monitoring of content usage, e.g. the number of times a movie has been viewed, copied or the amount which has been watched monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; protecting generic digital content where the protection is independent of the precise nature of the content G06F21/10; arrangements for monitoring the use made of the broadcast services in broadcast systems H04H60/31
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6582 Data stored in the client, e.g. viewing habits, hardware capabilities, credit card number arrangements where receivers interact with the broadcast H04H20/38
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 on disks or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/783 Adaptations for reproducing at a rate different from the recording rate
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8233 the additional signal being a character code signal

Abstract

Metadata is created in connection with an editing of a copy of a digital media for the purpose of generating a sample of the digital media, such as a ringtone generated from a song. The metadata is published and is retrievable for use in editing another copy of the digital media to automatically recreate the media sample.

Claims

1. A method for using metadata to recreate a media sample, comprising:

editing a first digital copy of a media to create the media sample;

publishing metadata indicative of the editing of the first digital copy of the media;

obtaining the published metadata indicative of the editing of the first digital copy of the media; and

using the obtained, published metadata indicative of the editing of the first digital copy of the media to automatically edit a second digital copy of the media to thereby recreate the media sample.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, comprising providing the recreated media sample to a mobile device for use as a ringtone.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the metadata further comprises instructions to be provided to the mobile device for automatically installing the ringtone on the mobile device.

4. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the first digital copy of the media is edited using an application located on an author computing device, the metadata indicative of the editing of the first digital copy of the media is published to a network server device, and an application located on a consumer computer device uses the obtained, published metadata indicative of the editing of the first digital copy of the media to automatically edit the second digital copy of the media to thereby recreate the media sample.

5. The method as recited in claim 4, wherein the second digital copy of the media is obtained from the network server device with the metadata.

6. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the first digital copy of the media is edited using an application located on a first network server device, the metadata indicative of the editing of the first digital copy of the media is published to a second network server device, and an application located on a consumer computer device uses the obtained, published metadata indicative of the editing of the first digital copy of the media to automatically edit the second digital copy of the media to thereby recreate the media sample.

7. The method as recited in claim 6, wherein the first network server device is the second network server device.

8. A method for using metadata to recreate a media sample, comprising:

using an application resident on a first computing device to edit a first digital copy of a media associated with the first computing device to create the media sample;

publishing metadata indicative of the editing of the first digital copy of the media to a network server device having an associated data repository, wherein the metadata indicative of the editing of the first digital copy of the media is stored within the data repository and cross-referenced to information that functions to uniquely identify the media;

downloading to a second computing device the published metadata indicative of the editing of the first digital copy of the media; and

causing an application resident on the second computing device to use the obtained, published metadata indicative of the editing of the first digital copy of the media to automatically edit a second digital copy of the media associated with the second computing device to thereby recreate the media sample.

9. The method as recited in claim 8, comprising using the information that functions to uniquely identify the media to determine if the second digital copy of the media is associated with the second computing device to automatically initiate a downloading to the second computing device of the published metadata indicative of the editing of the first digital copy of the media.

10. The method as recited in claim 8, comprising providing the recreated media sample to a mobile device for use as a ringtone.

11. The method as recited in claim 10, wherein the metadata further comprises instructions to be provided to the mobile device for automatically installing the ringtone on the mobile device.

12. The method as recited in claim 9, wherein the metadata comprises data indicative of a duration of the media sample.

13. The method as recited in claim 9, wherein the metadata comprises data indicative of a starting point within the media of the media sample.

14. The method as recited in claim 9, wherein the metadata comprises data indicative of an ending point within the media of the media sample.

15. The method as recited in claim 9, wherein the metadata comprises data indicative of a file format for the media sample.

16. The method as recited in claim 9, wherein the second digital copy of the media is obtained from the network server device with the metadata.