ANNOTATING MEDIA CONTENT WITH RELATED INFORMATION
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1. A method for retrieving media content on an electronic device, comprising:
- with an aggregator instantiated on the electronic device, the aggregator establishing a unique information space for a user and subscribing to at least one information feed identified by a user, receiving channel metadata associated with a first channel content;
with the aggregator, receiving the first channel content;
with the aggregator, processing at least the channel metadata associated with the first channel content to identify at least a second channel content that will be of interest to the user;
with the aggregator, automatically downloading the second channel content;
with the aggregator, automatically generating annotation metadata that describes a relationship between the first channel content and the second channel content; and
with the aggregator, storing the first channel content, the second channel content, the channel metadata and the annotation metadata to a datastore on the electronic device;
wherein the aggregator comprises a metadata browser that enables a user to browse the channel metadata and the annotation metadata to select for presentation the first and second channel content from the datastore on the electronic device.
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Abstract
A method 300 for retrieving media content (120). The method can include receiving metadata (118) associated with a first media file, receiving the first media file, processing at least the metadata to identify at least a second media file (124) likely to be of interest to a user, and automatically downloading the second media file. Processing the metadata can include identifying at least one parameter contained in the metadata and/or the first media file that correlates to the second media file. Metadata (122) also associated with the second media file also can be downloaded.
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1. A method for retrieving media content on an electronic device, comprising:
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with an aggregator instantiated on the electronic device, the aggregator establishing a unique information space for a user and subscribing to at least one information feed identified by a user, receiving channel metadata associated with a first channel content; with the aggregator, receiving the first channel content; with the aggregator, processing at least the channel metadata associated with the first channel content to identify at least a second channel content that will be of interest to the user; with the aggregator, automatically downloading the second channel content; with the aggregator, automatically generating annotation metadata that describes a relationship between the first channel content and the second channel content; and with the aggregator, storing the first channel content, the second channel content, the channel metadata and the annotation metadata to a datastore on the electronic device; wherein the aggregator comprises a metadata browser that enables a user to browse the channel metadata and the annotation metadata to select for presentation the first and second channel content from the datastore on the electronic device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. An electronic device comprising:
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a datastore; an aggregator instantiated on the electronic device, wherein the aggregator establishes a unique information space for a user, subscribes to at least one information feed identified by the user, receives channel metadata associated with a first channel content, receives the first channel content, processes at least the channel metadata to identify at least a second channel content that will be of interest to the user, automatically downloads the second channel content, automatically generates annotation metadata that describes a relationship between the first channel content and the second channel content, and stores the first channel content, the second channel content, the channel metadata and the annotation metadata to the datastore; and a metadata browser instantiated on the electronic device, wherein the metadata browser enables a user to browse the channel metadata and the annotation metadata to select for presentation the first and second channel content from the datastore. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. An electronic device, comprising:
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a datastore on which channel content, a plurality of channel metadata items, and annotation metadata items are stored, each of the channel metadata items corresponding to a particular media file contained in the channel content; and an aggregator instantiated on the electronic device that establishes a unique information space for a user and subscribes to at least one information feed identified by the user; wherein the aggregator comprises a metadata browser that presents the channel metadata items and the annotation metadata items in a manner that indicates relationships between the channel content and the annotation metadata items, associates the channel metadata items with correlating annotation metadata items, indicates a relationship between the channel metadata items and annotation metadata items, and is used to browse the channel metadata items and the annotation metadata items. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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