Personal media database

• US 8,688,712 B1
• Filed: 10/19/2011
• Issued: 04/01/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Klara, Martin
• Primary Examiner(s): Perveen, Rehana
• Assistant Examiner(s): BUI, THUY T
• Application Number:
  US13/277,133
• Time in Patent Office: 895 Days
• Field of Search: 707/748
• US Class Current: 707/748
• 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 16/41 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• 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 system and computer-implemented method for maintaining a personal media database associated with a user account including media-related information, the method including receiving media-related information regarding a media item from a remote media service, wherein the media-related information comprises rating information regarding the media item, the rating information representing an assessment of the quality of the media item by the user, and the rating information being provided according to a first rating standard, the first rating standard indicating a manner by which media items are rated, converting the rating information according to a second rating standard used at a personal media database, the second rating standard indicating a manner by which media items are rated wherein the second standard is different than the first standard and storing the media-related information including the converted rating information at the personal media database.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for maintaining a personal media database associated with a user account including media-related information, the method comprising:

receiving, at one or more computing devices, media-related information regarding a media item from a remote media service, wherein the media-related information comprises rating information for the media item, the rating information representing an assessment of the quality of the media item by a user of the user account, and the rating information being provided according to a first rating standard used at the remote media service, the first rating standard indicating a manner by which media items are rated;

converting, using the one or more computing devices, the rating information from the first rating standard to a second rating standard used at a personal media database communicatively coupled to the one or more computing devices, the second rating standard indicating a manner by which media items are rated and wherein the second rating standard is different than the first rating standard;

storing, in connection with the user account, the media-related information including the converted rating information at the personal media database;

converting a portion of the stored media-related information including at least the rating information from the second rating standard to a third rating standard;

receiving user rating information for a respective media item associated with media-related information stored at the personal media database in connection with the user account, the user rating information being received according to the second rating standard;

storing, at the personal media database in connection with the user account, the user rating information for the respective media item; and

converting the user rating to the first rating standard at the personal media database;

and transferring the converted user rating information to the remote media service.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the personal media database maintains media-related information associated with media items received from multiple remote media services including the remote media service, wherein the media items are consumed at the one or more remote media services.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein converting the rating information further comprises:

receiving an indication of a user selection, the user selection indicating a selection of one of a manual or automatic conversion of the rating information;

automatically converting the rating information when the user selection indicates a selection of the automatic conversion; and

providing the rating information for display to the user and receiving converted rating information from the user, if the user selection indicates the selection of the manual conversion.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a request to transfer the stored media-related information to a second remote media service; and

detecting the third rating standard being used at the second remote media service.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising transmitting the converted stored media-related information to the second remote media service.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein converting the portion of the stored media-related information further comprises:

receiving an indication of a user selection, the user selection indicating a selection of one of a manual or automatic conversion of the stored media-related information;

automatically converting the portion of the stored media-related information when the user selection indicates a selection of the automatic conversion; and

providing the converted stored media-related information to the user for conversion and receiving the converted media-related information from the user when the user selection indicates the selection of the manual conversion.

7. The method of claim 6, the third rating standard indicating a manner by which media items are rated.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the second rating standard includes a rating standard for rating the media item, and wherein the converted rating information comprises an indication of an assessment of the media item by the user provided according to the second rating standard.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the first rating standard and the second rating standard each represent a different manner of indicating the assessment of the media item provided by the user.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the media-related information further comprises a media item identifier identifying the media item associated with the media-related information.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the personal media database includes media-related information for one or more media items and wherein the media-related information for each of the one or more media items includes rating information provided according to the second rating standard.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the plurality of media items include video, audio or textual media items.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the personal media database maintains all rating information received from multiple different remote media services and relating to the media items associated with the user account of the user at the multiple different remote media services according to the second rating standard, wherein at least one of the multiple different remote media services maintains media rating information according to a third rating standard different than the first rating standard and the second rating standard.

14. A system for maintaining a personal media database including media-related information, the system comprising:

one or more processors; and

a machine-readable medium comprising instructions stored therein, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising;

receiving media-related information regarding a media item from a remote media service, the media-related information including rating information for the media item, the rating information being provided according a first rating standard used by a user at the remote media service, the first rating standard comprising a first manner for representing an assessment of media items;

converting the rating information from the first rating standard to a second rating standard used at a personal media database associated with the user, the second rating standard comprising a second manner for representing an assessment of media items, wherein the second manner is different than the first manner;

storing, in connection with the user account, the rating information for the media item after the rating information is converted;

receiving user rating information for a respective media item associated with media-related information stored at the personal media database in connection with the user account, the user rating information being received according to the second rating standard;

storing, at the personal media database in connection with the user account, the user rating information for the respective media item; and

converting the user rating to the first rating standard at the personal media database;

and transferring the converted user rating information to the remote media service;

wherein the personal media database includes rating information for a plurality of media items, wherein the rating information for the plurality of media items is provided according to the second rating standard; and

converting the rating information for each of the one or more of the plurality of media items according to a third rating standard.

15. The system of claim 14, the operations further comprising storing the media-related information including the converted rating information within the personal media database.

16. The system of claim 15, the operations further comprising:

receiving a request to transfer media-related information of one or more of the plurality of media items to a second remote media service; and

detecting the third rating standard being used at the second remote media service.

17. The system of claim 16, the operations further comprising transmitting the media-related information for the one or snore of the plurality of media items including the converted rating information to the second remote media service.

18. The system of claim 14, wherein the plurality of media items include at least one of video, audio or textual media items.

19. The system of claim 14, the operations further comprising:

providing the media-related information including the converted rating information for display to a user.

20. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions stored therein, which when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

receiving media-related information regarding a plurality of media items from a remote media service, wherein the media-related information comprises rating information for one or more of the plurality of media items provided according a first rating standard used by the remote media service;

converting the rating information from the first rating standard, such that the rating information regarding the one or more of the plurality, of media items is formatted according to a second rating standard used at a personal media database, wherein the second rating standard is different than the first rating standard;

storing, in connection with the user account, the media-related information including the converted rating information at the personal media database;

converting a portion of the stored media-related information including at least the rating information from the second rating standard to a third rating standard;

receiving user rating information for a respective media item associated with media-related information stored at the personal media database in connection with the user account, the user rating information being received according to the second rating standard;

storing, at the personal media database in connection with the user account, the user rating information for the respective media item; and

converting the user rating to the first rating standard at the personal media database;

and transferring the converted user rating information to the remote media service.