UNIFIED FORMAT FOR DIGITAL CONTENT METADATA

• US 20100094897A1
• Filed: 01/03/2008
• Published: 04/15/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Gracenote, Inc. (RR Donnelley & Sons Company)
• Original Assignee: Gracenote, Inc. (RR Donnelley & Sons Company)
• Inventors: Williams, Richard, Sumrall, Harry, Filippo, Scott San
• Application Number:
  US12/521,335
• Publication Number:
  US 20100094897A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/769
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/68 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/683 using metadata automatically derived from the content
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/11 by using information not detectable on the record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/322 used signal is digitally coded

Abstract

A method and system to provide a unified format for digital content metadata are described. The system may include a module to obtain source data associated with media content; a module to identify, based on the source data, the media content; an extractor to obtain metadata associated the identified content; and a converter to format the obtained metadata according to the popular music format. The popular music format is a tree field format, where the fields are to store the title of the album, the title of the track, and the name of the artist.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a communication module to obtain source data associated with media content;

a content identification module to identify the media content, utilizing the source data;

an extractor to obtain source metadata associated with the identified media content; and

a converter to format the obtained source metadata utilizing a format associated with popular music.

2. The system of claim 1, comprising a packaging module to generate packaged metadata based on the formatted source metadata.

3. The system of claim 2, comprising a renderer to render the packaged metadata.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the format associated with popular music comprises at least one of an album field, a track field, or an artist field.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the media content is audio content.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the media content is associated with classical music; and

the source metadata comprises at least one of album data, composer data, music work data, movement data, conductor data, or ensemble data.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the converter is to:

overload an album field with the composer data and the work data;

overload a track field with the composer data, the work data, and the movement data; and

overload an artist field with the conductor data and the ensemble data.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the media content is associated with an opera.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the media content is associated with jazz music.

10. A method comprising:

obtaining source data associated with media content;

identifying the media content, utilizing the source data;

obtaining source metadata associated with the identified media content; and

formatting the obtained source metadata utilizing a format associated with popular music.

11. The method of claim 10, comprising generating packaged metadata based on the formatted source metadata.

12. The method of claim 11, comprising rendering the packaged metadata.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the format associated with popular music comprises at least one of an album field, a track field, or an artist field.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the media content is audio content.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein:

the media content is associated with classical music; and

the source metadata comprises at least one of album data, composer data, music work data, movement data, conductor data, or ensemble data.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the formatting of the obtained source metadata comprises:

overloading an album field with the composer data and the work data;

overloading a track field with the composer data, the work data, and the movement data; and

overloading an artist field with the conductor data and the ensemble data.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein the media content is associated with a musical.

18. The method of claim 10, wherein:

the source data is associated with a digital video disc (DVD); and

the source metadata comprises at least one of a disc title, a chapter title, director data, or cast data.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the formatting of the obtained source metadata comprises:

overloading an album field with the disc title;

overloading a track field with the disc title and the chapter title; and

overloading an artist field with the director data and the cast data.

20. A machine-readable medium having instruction data to cause a machine to:

obtain source data associated with media content;

identify the media content, utilizing the source data;

obtain source metadata associated with the identified media content; and

format the obtained source metadata utilizing a format associated with popular music.