System and method for creating metadata

• US 20120023099A1
• Filed: 09/23/2011
• Published: 01/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: III Holdings 2, LLC
• Original Assignee: PacketVideo Corporation (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Crossley, Brett, Jenkins, Andrew, Rayfield, Jeff
• Granted Patent: US 8,285,735 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/736
• 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 system for creating metadata using a network and a media capturing device connected to the network wherein the media capturing device creates a first media file at a location at a time and a date and further wherein the media capturing device transmits the first media file to the network, the system comprising:

a first content tag associated with the first media file wherein the first content tag identifies the time and the date that the first media file was created;

a database of a plurality of events which stores event details for each of the plurality of events wherein the database uses the content tag to identify the time and the date that the first media file was created and further wherein the database compares the time and the date that the first media file was created to the event details of one or more of the plurality of events wherein the database determines a matching event from the plurality of events and further wherein the event details of the matching event correspond to the time and the date that the first media file was created;

a second content tag which is associated with the first media file based on determination of the matching event for the first media file by the database; and

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.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the database compares the location where the first media file was created to the event details of the plurality of events and further wherein the matching event is determined based on comparison of the location to the event details of the plurality of events.

3. The system of claim 1 further comprising:

a provider which maintains the webpage wherein the first media file is transmitted from the media capturing device to the provider and further 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 system of claim 1 further comprising:

a message transmitted 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 system 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 system 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 system of claim 1 wherein the determination of the matching event for the first media file and association of the second content tag with the first media file occur 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 the file information identifies a location, a time and a date of creation of the corresponding media file wherein a database of events stores event information for each of the events and further wherein the event information identifies a location, a time and a date of the corresponding event wherein each of the events is associated with an event title and a content tag and further wherein a first event occurs at a venue and is associated with a first event title and a first content tag, the method comprising the steps of:

performing a comparison of the location, the time and the date of creation of a first media file of the media files to the location, the time and the date of one or more of the events;

using the comparison to determine if one of the events is a matching event for the first media file wherein the location, the time and the date of creation of the first media file of the media files corresponds to the location, the time and the date of the matching event and further wherein the comparison indicates that the first event is the matching event for the first media file;

associating the matching event with the media files for which the location, the time and the date of creation correspond to the event information of the matching event and further wherein the first 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 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 first content tag is associated with the first media file.

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

displaying a webpage for the first event wherein the webpage provides access to the media files for which the first 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 event wherein the webpage provides access to the media files which have matching events which took place at the venue associated with the first event and further wherein the webpage provides access to the first media file and to a second media file not associated with the first 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 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 and further wherein the event details specify a location, a time, and a date for each of the events, the method comprising the steps of:

performing a comparison of the first location, the first time, and the first date to the location, the time and the date associated with one or more of the events;

using the comparison to determine for the first media file a matching event from the events wherein the location, the time and the date identified by the event details of the matching event 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.

15. The method of claim 14 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.

16. The method of claim 14 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.

17. The method of claim 14 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.

18. The method of claim 14 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.

19. The method of claim 14 wherein the event details of the matching event are not based on user input from the first user wherein determination of the matching event for the first media file and association of the first content tag with the first media file take place automatically without user input from the first user.

20. The method of claim 14 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.

21. The method of claim 14 wherein the events are scheduled events.

22. The method of claim 14 wherein the matching event for the first media file is a sporting event and further wherein the first content tag specifies at least one of a title of the sporting event, a type of sport, a participant of the sporting event, and an outcome of the sporting event.

23. The method of claim 14 wherein the matching event for the first media file is a musical performance and further wherein the first content tag specifies at least one of a title of the musical performance, a musician participating in the musical performance, the venue of the musical performance, and the type of music of the musical performance.