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System and method for archiving a media collection

  • US 7,765,192 B2
  • Filed: 03/29/2006
  • Issued: 07/27/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2006
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for archiving a user'"'"'s media collection at a central archiving system, the user'"'"'s media collection including a plurality of media files having media content encoded with an encoding algorithm, comprising:

  • receiving information regarding the media content and information regarding the encoding algorithm for each of the plurality of media files from a user system storing the plurality of media files;

    identifying the media content for each of the plurality of media files by comparing the information regarding the media content for each of the plurality of media files to information regarding media content of at least one of a plurality of reference media files stored at the central archiving system;

    identifying the encoding algorithm for each of the plurality of media files based on the information regarding the encoding algorithm for each of the plurality of media files;

    receiving at least one quality parameter for each of the plurality of media files;

    generating an archive record operating as an archive of the user'"'"'s media collection, the archive record comprising, for each of the plurality of media files, information identifying the media content for the media file, information identifying the encoding algorithm for the media file, and information identifying the at least one quality parameter for the media file; and

    restoring the user'"'"'s media collection based on the archive record operating as the archive of the user'"'"'s media collection, wherein restoring the user'"'"'s media collection comprises;

    receiving a request from the user system to restore the user'"'"'s media collection;

    recreating, at the central archiving system, each media file of the plurality of media files using one of the plurality of reference media files stored at the central archiving system having media content corresponding to the media content identified for the media file in the archive record, one of a plurality of encoding algorithms corresponding to the encoding algorithm identified for the media file in the archive record, and the at least one quality parameter for the media file identified in the archive record; and

    providing the plurality of media files to the user system.

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