PROCESSES AND SYSTEM FOR ACCESSING EXTERNALLY STORED METADATA ASSOCIATED WITH A MEDIA ASSET USING A UNIQUE IDENTIFIER INCORPORATED INTO THE ASSET ITSELF

• US 20130179444A1
• Filed: 09/15/2012
• Published: 07/11/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Apparao, Vidur, Bandhauer, John, Waterson, Christopher Robert
• Granted Patent: US 9,047,361 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/736
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/21 Design, administration or maintenance of databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/27 Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/284 Relational databases
• 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: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image

Abstract

An enhanced metadata structure and associated process is provided which captures and stores metadata gathered about the source and usage of a media asset or file. The source and usage metadata is integrated, such as by encoding within the enhanced media file, as the media asset is transferred and used. The integrated metadata accumulates, as a trail of source information and usage information in the enhanced media asset, and can be extracted upon arrival at a target computer system.

Claims

1-20. -20. (canceled)

21. A method comprising:

detecting, using at least one processor, that a media asset is being accessed;

tracking, using the at least one processor, usage of the media asset; and

integrating usage information associated with the tracked usage within the media asset.

22. A method comprising:

determining, using at least one processor, usage information associated with a media asset;

storing the usage information in a database;

receiving a request for the usage information associated with the media asset; and

providing access to the usage information.