ANNOTATION SYSTEM FOR CREATING AND RETRIEVING MEDIA AND METHODS RELATING TO SAME

• US 20110246514A1
• Filed: 06/16/2011
• Published: 10/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Trio Systems, LLC
• Original Assignee: Trio Systems, LLC
• Inventors: Bartholomew, Alan
• Granted Patent: US 8,280,904 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/769
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2228 Indexing structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• 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: G06F 16/907 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/908 using metadata automatically derived from the content

Abstract

The invention described herein is generally directed to a method and apparatus for creating and retrieving audio data. In one implementation the invention comprises an annotation system configured to record, store, and retrieve media. The annotation system contains a set of client-processing devices configured to capture media for subsequent playback. Each client-processing device typically contains a record button to initiate the capture and is configured upon performing the capture operation to trigger an association of a unique ID with the media. The client-processing devices are further configured to upload the media and a unique ID to a server for purposes of storage. The server obtains the media and unique ID for subsequent retrieval and provides the media and the unique ID to at least one client-processing device from the set of client processing devices.

Claims

1. A system for locating media data by associating with a classification comprising:

a first computing device comprising first hardware and first software for controlling the first hardware to perform the following steps;

creating a multi-part classification attribute value, wherein the multi-part classification attribute value comprises information corresponding to a hierarchical classification, the hierarchical classification being descriptive of media data, and wherein the multi-part classification attribute value comprises at least a classification data representing a category attribute value, a context attribute value, and a detail attribute value;

creating a knowledge attribute data, wherein the knowledge attribute data comprises an alternative representation encoding the multi-part classification attribute value as a single value;

classifying the media data by storing the knowledge attribute data and an association between the knowledge attribute data and the media data;

receiving a media content query comprising at least a query value wherein the query value comprises information corresponding to a hierarchical classification that is descriptive of the requested media data and that comprises classification data representing at least a category search parameter, a context search parameter, and a detail search parameter; and

retrieving the association between the knowledge attribute data and the media data wherein the multi-part classification attribute value represented by the knowledge attribute data matches the media content query value.

2. A system of claim 1 wherein the knowledge attribute data comprises an arbitrarily designated value.

3. A system of claim 2 wherein the knowledge attribute data comprises a value suggestive of the meaning of the attribute.

4. A system of claim 1 wherein the knowledge attribute data comprises a reference to an attribute specification.

5. A system of claim 4 wherein the reference to the attribute specification is a URL.

6. A system of claim 1 wherein the knowledge attribute data comprises a pseudo-unique value.

7. A system of claim 1 wherein the knowledge attribute data comprises a generated numeric value.

8. A system of claim 1 wherein the association between the knowledge attribute data and the media data comprises a reference to the media data.

9. A system of claim 1 wherein the association between the knowledge attribute data and the media data comprises an implied reference created by storing together the knowledge attribute data and the media data.

10. A system of claim 1 wherein the media data comprises a recommendation.

11. A system of claim 1 wherein the first program code further causes the first computer to receive the media data using communications means.

12. A system of claim 1 wherein the first program code further causes the first computer to capture the media data.

13. A system of claim 1 wherein the first program code further causes the first computer to send the knowledge attribute data to another computing device using communications means.

14. A system of claim 1 wherein the first program code further causes the first computer to send the association with the media data to another computing device using communications means.

15. A system of claim 1 comprising a second computing device comprising second hardware and second software for controlling the second hardware to perform the following steps:

receiving the knowledge attribute data and the association with the media data;

storing the knowledge attribute data and the association with the media data;

receiving a media content query comprising at least a query value wherein the query value comprises information corresponding to a hierarchical classification that is descriptive of the requested media data and that comprises classification data representing a category search parameter, a context search parameter, and a detail search parameter; and

retrieving the association between the knowledge attribute data and the media data wherein the multi-part classification attribute represented by the knowledge attribute data matches the media content query value.

16. A system of claim 1 wherein the first program code further causes the first computer to associate the media data with a unique ID value for purposes of retrieval.

17. A system of claim 16 wherein the unique ID value is assigned from a predetermined value.

18. A system of claim 17 wherein the predetermined value is assigned by scanning a printed code.