Metadata Role-Based View Generation in Multimedia Editing Systems and Methods Therefor

• US 20110246555A1
• Filed: 03/30/2010
• Published: 10/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ITXC IP Holdings SARL (Tata Sons Pvt Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: ITXC IP Holdings SARL (Tata Sons Pvt Ltd.)
• Inventors: HEDGES, Carl
• Granted Patent: US 9,281,012 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

Abstract

Systems and methods for automatic transformation the overall metadata associated with the multimedia content (MMC) at the global media hub (GMH) into unique role-and-client-based views via the network for review through the media access node (MAN) associated with the client, wherein those views of the metadata, general or temporal or subset, are unique and specific to each user in the context of that user'"'"'s role within the client.

Claims

1. A method for using metadata for multimedia content in a network-based editing system, the system comprising at least one remote media asset node (MAN) server computer associated with at least one client for editing a multimedia content (MMC), the at least one remote MAN having a server computer constructed and configured in electronic communication over a network to a global media hub (GMH) including a GMH server computer having a processor, a memory, and software operable thereon to control the processes that act on the MMC, the GMH operable for storing all metadata associated with the MMC, and the MAN operable for storing all MMC for editing by a client through a client user interface (UI), the method steps comprising:

(a) providing metadata at the GMH corresponding to a multiplicity of MMC units;

(b) automatically transforming the metadata for the given MMC into a multiplicity of metadata subsets, including at least a primary metadata subset, and a second metadata subset, wherein the primary metadata subset and the second metadata subset are different, and are coupled to predetermined different user roles at the client;

(c) receiving a request into the GMH via the network from a first user having a first role at a client; and

(d) the GMH automatically transforming and grouping metadata into a role-based view of the metadata that is unique to the first user role.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the metadata includes general metadata and temporal metadata components.

3. The method of claim 1, further including the step of (e) the GMH automatically generating a report comprising metadata views unique to each user role for the client.

4. The method of claim 1, further including the step of (f) generating at the GMH and transmitting a primary view via the network for review associated with the client based on matching the first user'"'"'s first role at the client, the primary view being unique to the first role associated with the first user at the client, and the primary view including the primary metadata subset only, thereby providing a unique view of the metadata corresponding to the role of the user at the client.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the step (f) for generating a primary view is based on matching the first user'"'"'s first role at the client with rules stored at the GMH, the primary view being unique to the first role associated with the first user at the client, and the primary view including the primary metadata subset only, thereby providing a unique view of the metadata corresponding to the role of the user at the client.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the step (c) request originates through the client UI.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the step (c) request originates from the client through a web services request.

8. The method of claim 1, the network-based editing system further including an original MMC, a browse copy MMC that is a copy of the original MMC, and an edited MMC, wherein each of the original MMC, the browse copy MMC, and the edited MMC are stored at the MAN, and have corresponding metadata stored at the GMH.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the metadata subsets include information from the metadata from each of the original MMC, and the edited MMC.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the user roles for each client are configurable based upon client inputs and a role listing is stored at the GMH for controlling metadata access and the role-based views unique to each user'"'"'s role at the client.

11. The method of claim 6, further including the steps of:

(d) the GMH server computer storing metadata corresponding to the original MMC and the edited MMC, and (e) controlling the metadata role-based views provided for each role at each client.

12. A method for editing multimedia content and providing role-based metadata views associated with the content, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) providing a system including at least one remote media asset node (MAN) including MAN server computer(s) associated with at least one client for editing a multimedia content (MMC) stored at the MAN(s), the at least one remote MAN constructed and configured in electronic communication over a network to a global media hub (GMH) including GMH server computer(s) having a processor, a memory, and software operable thereon to control the processes that act on the MMC, and the GMH operable for storing all metadata associated with the MMC;

(b) from a user interface on a display coupled to the at least one remote MAN associated with a client site and positioned in geographic proximity to the client site, acting on the MMC at the at least one remote MAN as directed from the GMH server computer;

(c) editing a copy of the MMC stored at the at least one remote MAN; and

(d) generating an edited-MMC metadata associated with and corresponding to the edited MMC, the edited-MMC metadata stored at the GMH;

(e) receiving a request via the client UI by a first user having a first role at a client to review metadata for the MMC;

(f) the GMH verifying authorization of the first user based on the first role at the client to review the metadata for the MMC;

(g) the GMH automatically transforming the metadata for generating a primary metadata view associated with the MMC based on the first role, wherein the primary metadata view is unique to the first role.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising the step of (h) the GMH automatically transforming the metadata for generating a second metadata view associated with the MMC based on the second role, wherein the second metadata view being unique to the second role.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising the steps of (h) the GMH automatically transforming the metadata for generating N metadata views associated with the MMC based on the N roles, wherein each of the N metadata views is unique to the N roles for the client.

15. A system for editing multimedia content and providing unique role-based views of metadata associated with the content, the system comprising:

at least one remote MAN including MAN server computer(s) associated with at least one client for editing the MMC, the at least one remote MAN constructed and configured in electronic communication over a network to a global media hub (GMH) including GMH server computer(s) having a software program operable thereon to control the processes that act on the MMC, and the GMH operable for storing all metadata associated with the MMC;

from a user interface (UI) on a display coupled to the at least one remote MAN associated with a client and positioned in geographic proximity to the client site, operable for acting on the MMC stored at the at least one remote MAN server computer as directed by the GMH server computer for editing the MMC, and further including a multiplicity of metadata subsets that are automatically generated by the GMH for presentation of unique metadata views that correspond to different roles of users at a client.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the UI resides at a client terminal coupled with the at least one MAN.

17. The system of claim 15, further including an original MMC, a browse copy MMC, and an edited MMC, all stored at the MAN, and wherein the MAN is further operable to:

(a) allow the client to act on the MMC as directed by the GMH;

(b) transmit metadata corresponding to the edited MMC to the GMH for storage.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein there are N metadata subsets providing N unique views of the metadata, each of the unique views corresponding to different user roles at the client.