System and method for creating metadata

• US 8,065,325 B2
• Filed: 12/05/2008
• Issued: 11/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: III Holdings 2, LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: PacketVideo Corporation (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Crossley, Brett, Jenkins, Andrew, Rayfield, Jeff
• Primary Examiner(s): Breene, John E
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ly, Anh
• Application Number:
  US12/315,667
• Publication Number:
  US 20090157680A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,082 Days
• Field of Search: 707/802, 707/803, 707/804, 707/770, 370/352, 705/14.5, 705/41.2, 705/41.1, 455/2.01, 455/3.01, 455/439, 455/437, 725/133, 725/39, 725/37, 725/46, 382/239, 382/124, 709/217, 709/231, 709/227
• US Class Current: 707/770
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/487 using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/489 using time information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/185 by embedding added-value information into content, e.g. geo-tagging

Abstract

A system and a method create metadata for media files. The metadata may be information relating to, based on and/or associated with the media files. The metadata of the media files may be searched by one or more terminals. An event database connectable to a terminal may use a location, a date and/or a time of creation of the media files to associate specific events with the media files. Further, the specific events may be used by the database to create keywords associated with the media files. As a result, the system and the method may organize and/or may provide searching for media files. A web page may be generated for an event that accumulates the media files related to the event.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for creating metadata for a first media file created at a location at a time and a date by a media capturing device wherein a database of a plurality of events stores event details for each of the plurality of events, the method comprising the steps of:

associating a first content tag with the first media file;

comparing the first content tag to the event details of the plurality of events;

determining a matching event from the plurality of events, wherein the event details of the matching event correspond to the first content tag associated with the first media file;

associating a second content tag with the first media file wherein the second content tag is based on the matching event;

providing a webpage for the matching event wherein media files having the second content tag are accessed from the webpage by remote users in response to user input into the webpage and further wherein the first media file is accessed by the remote users in response to user input into the webpage which selects the first media file from the media files; and

comparing the time and the date that the first media file was created to the event details of the plurality of events wherein the first content tag associated with the first media file indicates the time and the date and further wherein the matching event is identified based on comparison of the time and the date to the event details of the plurality of events.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of:

comparing the location where the first media file was created to the event details of the plurality of events wherein the first content tag associated with the first media file indicates the location and further wherein the matching event is identified based on comparison of the location to the event details of the plurality of events.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of:

transmitting the first media file from the media capturing device to a provider which maintains the webpage wherein the first media file is transmitted from the provider to one of the remote users in response to the user input which selects the first media file from the media files.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of:

transmitting a message to the remote users of the webpage that registered an interest in the media files having the second content tag wherein the message indicates a newly available media file that has the second content tag.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the webpage is provided by a social networking website and further wherein the remote users of the webpage have homepages provided by the social networking website wherein the homepages provide the media files.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the event details of the matching event are not based on user input from a user of the media capturing device.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the event details of the matching event are not based on user input from a user of the media capturing device wherein the determining of the matching event for the first media file and the associating of the second content tag with the first media file take place automatically without user input from the user.

8. A computer-implemented method for creating metadata for media files created by a plurality of users wherein file information is associated with each of the media files and further wherein a database of events stores event information for each of the events wherein each of the events is associated with an event title and a content tag wherein one of the events is a first sporting event having participants, an outcome and a type of sport and further wherein the first sporting event occurs at a venue wherein the first sporting event is associated with a first sporting event title and a first content tag, the method comprising the steps of:

comparing the file information of each of the media files created by the plurality of users to the event information;

determining if one of the events is a matching event based on comparison of the file information to the event information wherein the event information of the matching event corresponds to the file information of the media file wherein each of the media files created by the plurality of users undergoes determination of whether one of the events is the matching event for the media file and further wherein the first sporting event is the matching event for a first media file;

associating the matching event with the media files having the file information which corresponds to the event information of the matching event wherein the first sporting event is associated with the first media file;

associating the event title of the matching event with the media files associated with the matching event wherein the first sporting event title is associated with the first media;

associating the content tag of the matching event with the media files associated with the matching event wherein the content tag is based on the event title and further wherein the first content tag is associated with the first media file wherein the first content tag specifies at least one of the outcome of the first sporting event, the venue of the first sporting event, the type of sport of the first sporting event, and a participant of the first sporting event; and

wherein the comparison of the file information to the event information in the determining step compares the location, the time and the date of creation of the media file to the location, the time and the date associated with the one of the events.

9. The method of claim 8 further comprising the step of:

displaying a webpage for the sporting event wherein the webpage provides access to the media files for which the sporting event is the matching event.

10. The method of claim 8 further comprising the step of:

displaying a webpage for the venue associated with the first sporting event wherein the webpage provides access to the media files which have matching events which took place at the venue associated with the first sporting event wherein the webpage provides access to the first media file and to a second media file not associated with the first sporting event.

11. The method of claim 8 wherein the first media file encodes audiovisual content.

12. The method of claim 8 wherein the media file is a digital photograph.

13. The method of claim 8 further comprising the step of:

associating a default event title with one of the media files if the database of events does not have the matching event for the media file wherein the default event title indicates a venue proximate to the location where the media file was created.

14. A system for creating metadata, the system comprising:

a network;

a media capturing device connected to the network wherein the media capturing device creates a first media file and further wherein the media capturing device determines a location of the media capturing device when the first media file was created wherein the media capturing device determines a time and a date that the first media file was created and further wherein the media capturing device transmits the first media file to the network;

a database connected to the network wherein the database has a plurality of events and further wherein each of the plurality of events is associated with event information wherein the database compares the event information to the location of the media capturing device when the first media file was created and the time and the date that the first media file was created wherein the database associates the first media file with a matching event of the plurality of events and further wherein the event information of the matching event corresponds to the location of the media capturing device when the first media file was created and the time and the date that the media file was created wherein the database associates a first content tag with the first media file wherein the first content tag is based on the matching event;

a webpage accessible by the network wherein the webpage provides media files associated with a first event of the plurality of events wherein the first media file is available via the webpage if the first content tag associated with the first media file indicates that the first media file was created at the first event; and

a comparison of the location of the media capturing device when the first media file was created and the time and the date that the first media file was created to the event information by comparing the location of the media capturing device when the first media file was created and the time and the date that the first media file was created to a location, a time and a date associated with each of the plurality of events.

15. The system of claim 14 further comprising:

a terminal connected to the network wherein the network transmits the first media file to the terminal in response to user input on the terminal that corresponds to the first content tag.

16. The system of claim 14 wherein the media capturing device has a GPS receiver that determines the location of the media capturing device when the first media file was created.

17. The system of claim 14 further comprising:

a content provider connected to the network wherein a user provides a parameter prior to creation of the first media file and further wherein the content provider transmits a message that indicates availability of the first media file from the provider if the first content tag corresponds to the parameter.

18. A computer-implemented method for creating metadata for media files created by a plurality of users wherein file information is associated with each of the media files and further wherein a database of events stores event details for each of the events wherein each of the events is associated with an event title and a content tag and further wherein one of the events is a first performance of a musician of a type of music at a venue wherein the first performance is associated with a first event title and a first content tag, the method comprising the steps of:

comparing the file information of each of the media files created by the plurality of users to the event information;

determining if one of the events is a matching event based on comparison of the file information to the event information wherein the event information of the matching event corresponds to the file information of the media file wherein each of the media files created by the plurality of users undergoes determination of whether one of the events is the matching event for the media file and further wherein the first performance is the matching event for a first media file;

associating the matching event with the media files having the file information which corresponds to the event information of the matching event wherein the first performance is associated with the first media file;

associating the event title of the matching event with the media files associated with the matching event wherein the first event title is associated with the first media file; and

associating the content tag of the matching event with the media files associated with the matching event wherein the content tag is based on the event title and further wherein the first content tag is associated with the first media file wherein the first content tag specifies at least one of the musician of the first performance, the venue of the first performance and the type of music of the first performance; and

wherein the comparison of the file information to the event information in the determining step compares the location, the time and the date of the creation of the media file to the location, the time and the date associated with the one of the events.

19. The method of claim 18 further comprising the step of:

displaying a webpage for the first performance wherein the webpage provides access to the media files for which the first performance is the matching event.

20. The method of claim 18 wherein the first media file encodes audiovisual content.

21. The method of claim 18 wherein the first media file is a digital photograph.

22. The method of claim 18 further comprising the step of:

associating a default event title with one of the media files if the database of events does not have the matching event for the media file wherein the default event title indicates a venue proximate to the location where the media file was created.

23. The method of claim 18 further comprising the step of:

displaying a webpage for the venue associated with the first performance wherein the webpage provides access to the media files which have matching events which took place at the venue associated with the first performance wherein the webpage provides access to the first media file and to a second media file not associated with the first performance.

24. A computer-implemented method for creating metadata for a first media file created at a first location at a first time on a first date by a first media capturing device used by a first user wherein a database of events stores event details for each of the events, the method comprising the steps of:

comparing the first location, the first time, and the first date to the event details stored in the database wherein the event details specify a location, a time, and a date for each of the events;

determining for the first media file a matching event from the events wherein the event details of the matching event specify a location, a time and a date which correspond respectively to the first location, the first time, and the first date; and

associating a first content tag with the first media file wherein the first content tag is associated with the first media file based on the matching event; and

wherein the comparison of the first media file to the event details is used in the determining step and further wherein the comparison compares the first location, the first time and the first date of the creation of the first media file to the location, the time and the date associated with each of the events.

25. The method of claim 24 further comprising the step of:

providing a webpage which provides access to a plurality of media files created by different users wherein each of the plurality of media files has the same matching event.

26. The method of claim 24 further comprising the step of:

comparing user input to content tags associated with media files wherein the first media file is provided if the first content tag associated with the first media file corresponds to the user input.

27. The method of claim 24 wherein the matching event has an event title and further wherein the event title is associated with the first media file in response to determination of the matching event for the first media file.

28. The method of claim 24 further comprising the step of:

creating a second media file on a second media capturing device used by a second user who is a different user than the first user wherein the first content tag associated with the first media file is associated with the second media file if the matching event for the second media file is the same event as the matching event for the first media file.

29. The method of claim 24 wherein the event details of the matching event are not based on user input from the first user wherein the determining of the matching event for the first media file and the associating of the first content tag with the first media file take place automatically without user input from the first user.

30. The method of claim 24 further comprising the steps of:

determining a matching event for a second media file created by a second media capturing device used by a second user wherein the database of events is used to determine the matching event for the second media file and further wherein the matching event for the second media file is determined without user input from the second user to specify the matching event and further wherein the matching event for the first media file is determined without user input from the first user to specify the matching event;

associating a second content tag with the second media file wherein the second content tag is associated with the second media file based on the matching event for the second media file; and

organizing a plurality of media files based on associated content tags wherein the first media file and the second media file are included in the plurality of media files and are organized based on the first content tag and the second content tag respectively wherein the organizing of the plurality of media files is done without the involvement of the first user and the second user.