Patent ID: 9432736
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A computer-based automated method for improving a quality of a content catalogue, the content catalogue comprising a plurality of elements and at least one piece of metadata associable according to predetermined association criteria with at least one element, a link between two elements in the content catalogue being created when a piece of metadata is associated according to the predetermined association criteria with two elements in the content catalogue, each element being associable with one or more pieces of metadata, the metadata being useful for searching the content catalogue for one or more particular elements, said method comprising: a) measuring, by a content catalogue quality measurement module executed by a processor, the quality of the content catalogue by assessing at least one of a quantity of links in the catalogue, a variety of the elements, diversity of the metadata, a distribution of the metadata among the elements or a connectivity of a network comprising elements and links in the content catalogue; b) if the measured quality is below a predetermined threshold defining an insufficient quality level, then identifying, by a metadata acquisition module executed by the processor, at least one additional piece of metadata associable with two elements in the content catalogue; c) acquiring for the content catalogue, by a content acquisition module executed by the processor, the identified additional piece of metadata, such acquisition creating at least one additional link in the content catalogue; and d) repeating steps a)-c) if the measured quality is below the predetermined threshold, thereby controlling, by a controller module, the metadata acquisition module to acquire further metadata to associate with the existing content or to associate with existing metadata within the catalogue, and making the content catalogue distributable.