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

• US 20120330963A1
• Filed: 08/31/2012
• Published: 12/27/2012
• 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 8,676,835 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/740
• 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, comprising:

at least one first computer configured to

retrieve a knowledge object comprising an association between media data and knowledge attribute data,

wherein the media data comprises at least one reference to first media content,

wherein the knowledge attribute data represents a multi-part hierarchical classification of the first media content,

retrieve a classification filter representing a multi-part hierarchical classification of second media content that is of interest to a user,

create a set of documents in which at least a portion of the first media content is referenced when the knowledge attribute data corresponds with the classification filter; and

retrieve the set of documents for the purpose of enabling access to at least the portion of the first media content by the user.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the multi-part hierarchical classification comprises at least a classification data representing a category attribute value, a context attribute value, and a detail attribute value.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the category attribute value represents a general classification category of information specified by the context attribute value and the detail attribute value.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the context attribute value represents a sub-classification of a general classification category.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein the context attribute value represents a sub-classification comprising at least a division between persons, places, and things.

6. The system of claim 2, wherein the detail attribute value represents a sub-classification of the context attribute value.

7. The system of claim 2, wherein the detail attribute value represents a data value indicating more detail about the first or second media content.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the knowledge attribute data comprises an arbitrarily designated value.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the knowledge attribute data comprises a value suggestive of a meaning of an attribute.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the knowledge attribute data comprises a reference to an attribute specification.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the reference to the attribute specification is a Uniform Resource Locator (“

URL”

).

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the knowledge attribute data comprises a pseudo-unique value.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the knowledge attribute data comprises a generated numeric value.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the classification filter is received from a second computer.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the second computer is configured to:

receive classification filter information from the user;

send the classification filter information to the first computer;

receive from the first computer the set of documents in which at least a portion of the first media content is referenced; and

provide the portion of the first media content to the user.

16. The system of claim 1, wherein the knowledge attribute data is received from a second computer.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the second computer is configured to:

create the knowledge attribute data; and

transmit a representation of the knowledge attribute data to the first computer.

18. The system of claim 1, wherein the first computer is further configured to send the knowledge object to another computer.

19. The system of claim 1, wherein the first computer is further configured to receive the knowledge object from another computer.

20. The system of claim 1, wherein the reference to the portion of the first media content is implied by storing together the knowledge attribute data and the portion of the first media content.