ASSOCIATING AND LINKING COMPACT DISC METADATA
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Abstract
Improved techniques for enhancing, associating, and linking various sources of metadata for music files, to allow integration of commercially generated metadata with user-entered metadata, and to ensure that metadata provided to the user is of the highest quality and accuracy available, even when the metadata comes from disparate sources having different levels of credibility. The invention further provides improved techniques for identifying approximate matches when querying metadata databases, and also provides improved techniques for accepting user submissions of metadata, for categorizing user submissions according to relative credibility, and for integrating user submissions with existing metadata.
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49 Claims
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1-10. -10. (canceled)
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11. A method of retrieving metadata corresponding to a media item, comprising:
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querying, by at least one a first metadata source using an identifier associated with the media item; responsive to the first metadata source missing at least a portion of the metadata corresponding to the media item, the at least one processing unit querying a second metadata source using an identifier associated with the media item; responsive to at least one of the metadata sources having metadata corresponding to the media item, the at least one processing unit retrieving the at least a portion of the metadata; and outputting the retrieved metadata. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method of retrieving metadata corresponding to a media item, comprising:
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querying, by at least one a metadata source using an identifier associated with the media item; retrieving, by the at least one processing unit, at least two metadata records based on the query, each retrieved metadata record having an indicator of relative credibility; responsive to a first retrieved metadata record having the highest relative credibility containing complete metadata corresponding to the media item, outputting the metadata from the first retrieved metadata record; and responsive to the retrieved metadata record having the highest relative credibility missing at least a portion of the metadata corresponding to the media item, outputting corresponding metadata from the second retrieved metadata record. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18)
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34. A method of retrieving metadata corresponding to a media item, comprising:
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obtaining, by at least one processing unit, a plurality of numeric values of the media item; forming, by the at least one processing unit, a first query from the plurality of numeric values; running, by the at least one processing unit, the first query on a first metadata source to retrieve at least one primary record comprising metadata; forming, by the at least one processing unit, a second query from metadata extracted from the retrieved at least one primary record; running, by the at least one processing unit, the second query on a second metadata source to retrieve at least one secondary record comprising metadata; and outputting at least a portion of the metadata from the at least one secondary record. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36, 37, 38, 39)
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40. A method of retrieving metadata corresponding to a media item, comprising:
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obtaining, by at least one processing unit, a plurality of numeric values of the media item; forming, by the at least one processing unit, a first query from the plurality of numeric values; running, by the at least one processing unit, the first query on a metadata source; responsive to at least one record matching the query, the at least one processing unit outputting at least a portion of the metadata from the matching record; responsive to no records matching the query, the at least one processing unit; obtaining additional media identification information; forming a second query from the additional media identification information; running the second query on the metadata source to retrieve at least one record comprising metadata; and outputting at least a portion of the metadata from the at least one record. - View Dependent Claims (41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48)
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49-78. -78. (canceled)
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