Extensible file and path renaming during multimedia acquisition

• US 8,645,488 B2
• Filed: 02/10/2006
• Issued: 02/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/10/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Ivory, Andrew S., Averett, Ashley E., Ramsby, Scott R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Winder, Patrice
• Assistant Examiner(s): TRAN, NAM T
• Application Number:
  US11/350,831
• Publication Number:
  US 20070192446A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,916 Days
• Field of Search: 707/7, 707/205, 707/E17.143, 709217-219
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/164 File meta data generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/41 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/329 on a disc [VTOC]

Abstract

A method and system to extending naming of captured multimedia data to secondary applications is provided. The secondary applications are registered and associated with identifiers. The identifiers are stored in naming templates utilized by a file-naming engine. A multimedia-acquisition engine captures the multimedia data and communicates with the file-naming engine to generate a path that specifies a location to store the captured multimedia data. The file-naming engine processes the naming template to determine whether the secondary applications or default values are utilized to generate the path for the captured multimedia data.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method to extend naming of captured multimedia data to a secondary application, the method comprising:

selecting a naming template having a token, subtoken, and alternate, wherein the token identifies the secondary application that provides naming information for the captured multimedia data, and the alternate provides default naming information when the token and subtoken are not present;

parsing the token to extract an object identifier that corresponds to the secondary application;

verifying that the format of the object identifier matches a specified format utilizing specialized naming instructions;

creating a path to store the captured multimedia data based on the object identifier, the path includes metadata extracted from the captured multimedia data by the secondary application;

receiving the captured multimedia data from a registration server;

processing the captured multimedia data by a file-naming engine;

generating a path name for the captured multimedia data via the file-naming engine;

storing the captured multimedia data at a location specified by the path;

instantiating the secondary application; and

registering a reference associated with the secondary application at the registration server.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the template is selected based on the captured multimedia data comprising data for one or more of a device acquire date, a device mode, or lens.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein creating the path further comprises:

instantiating an object associated with the object identifier.

4. The method according to claim 3, further comprising:

extracting values associated with attributes of the object.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the object generates a graphical user interface to define the path.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the object is another secondary application.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the secondary application is a COM application.

8. A computer-implemented method to name captured multimedia data, the method comprising:

capturing multimedia data by a multimedia capture device of a multimedia database;

associating metadata with the captured multimedia data;

storing the captured multimedia data and the associated metadata in the multimedia database;

instantiating a secondary application comprising naming information for the captured multimedia data;

registering the instantiated secondary application;

storing a reference corresponding to the registered secondary application with a list of references in a registration server;

retrieving the captured multimedia data and the associated metadata from the multimedia database via a photo-acquisition engine;

creating a path to store the captured multimedia data via a file-naming engine in communication with the photo-acquisition engine;

selecting a naming template comprising a token, subtoken, and alternate, wherein the alternate triggers a default application to execute when the secondary application cannot be instantiated;

processing the naming template to generate a name associated with the path via the file-naming engine;

storing the captured multimedia data at a location specified by the path; and

accessing the registration server to determine whether a reference associated with another secondary application is stored with the list of references.

9. The method according to claim 8, further comprising:

verifying that an identifier of the token is associated with the registered secondary application;

by searching a session list for a matching identifier.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the secondary application is instantiated, when the identifier matches a specified format and the identifier is not included in the session list.

11. The method according to claim 10, further comprising:

storing the identifier in the session list.

12. The method according to claim 8, wherein the file-naming engine utilizes the token to create directories for the captured multimedia data.

13. A computer-implemented system having processor, memory, and data storage subsystems to extend naming of captured multimedia data to a secondary application, the system comprising:

a multimedia-acquisition engine to select a naming template having a token corresponding to the captured multimedia data;

a file-naming engine which executes the following;

creating a name and a path to store the captured multimedia data via the processor,

extracting new metadata via the secondary application to generate information on the path, and

creating a reference to the secondary application in the naming template; and

a registration server to store a list of references to one or more associated secondary applications, the registration server being accessed by the file-naming engine to provide access to the secondary applications associated with the token, wherein at least one of the secondary applications comprises specialized naming instructions developed by a third party to name a captured multimedia file.

14. The computer-implemented system according to claim 13, wherein the naming template includes a prefix, suffix and an alternate utilized by the search engine to generate the name of the captured multimedia file.

15. The computer-implemented system according to claim 13, wherein the registration server stores a list of identifiers associated with the token.

16. The computer-implemented system according to claim 13, wherein the stored captured multimedia data is based on user-input corresponding to the secondary application.

17. The computer-implemented system according to claim 13, wherein the stored captured multimedia data is based on metadata associated with the captured multimedia data.

18. The computer-implemented system according to claim 17, wherein the path is created from attributes associated with the secondary application or input received from a graphical user interface associated with the secondary application.

19. The computer-implemented system according to claim 13, wherein the path is created based on default values associated with the template.