METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ENABLING ORGANIZATION OF MEDIA OBJECTS

• US 20120059855A1
• Filed: 05/26/2009
• Published: 03/08/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Dey, Prasenjit, Madhvanath, Sriganesh, Vennelakanti, Ramadevi
• Application Number:
  US13/260,035
• Publication Number:
  US 20120059855A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/792
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/41 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/436 using biological or physiological data of a human being, e.g. blood pressure, facial expression, gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually

Abstract

A method for enabling organization of a plurality of media objects is disclosed. The method comprises playing a digital media object to a user; capturing the interaction of the user with the played digital media object; and tagging the played digital media object based on said interaction. A software program product implementing this method, a system comprising the software program product and a digital media object tagged in accordance with this method are also disclosed.

Claims

1. A method for enabling organization of a plurality of media objects, comprising:

playing a digital media object to a user;

capturing the interaction of the user with the played digital media object; and

tagging the played digital media object based on said interaction.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising further tagging the played digital media object with a further tag.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing a database comprising a plurality of user identity records, each record comprising user identification data of said user, and wherein:

said capturing step comprises capturing user identification data of the user and comparing the captured user identification data with the user identification data of said user identity records; and

said tagging step comprises tagging the played digital media object with the user identity extracted from said database upon matching the captured user identification data with the user identification data of one of said user identity records.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said interaction further comprises the response of the user to the played digital media object.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said tagging further comprises including the duration of the interaction of the user with the played digital media object.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said playing and capturing steps are executed for respective digital media objects prior to executing the respective tagging steps for said respective played digital media objects.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein said respective tagging steps are postponed until the computer activity has dropped below a defined activity threshold.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising organizing the tagged digital media objects into an electronic data structure.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

defining a user interaction query;

accessing the electronic data structure;

comparing the tags of the digital media objects with the user interaction query; and

listing the digital media objects matching the user interaction query.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

playing at least one of said listed digital media objects to a further user;

capturing the interaction of the further user with the at least one digital media object; and

updating the tag of the at least one played digital media object based on said interaction.

11. A software program product for, when executed on a processor, implementing the steps of the method of claim 1.

12. A system comprising the computer program product of claim 11 and a processor for executing the computer program product.

13. The system of claim 12, further comprising means for capturing the interaction between the user and the played media object in the form of user identification data.

14. A digital media object comprising a tag based on the interaction of a user with said media object when played to said user.

15. A digital data structure comprising a plurality of digital media objects including at least one digital media object as claimed in claim 14.