Patent ID: 9384197
Filing Date: 2016-07-05
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. An electronic device for automatically retrieving metadata to apply to a media item, comprising a processor, storage, and communications circuitry, the processor operative to: retrieve the media item from the storage; identify initial metadata associated with the media item; identify a calendar entry associated with the media item, the calendar entry associated with a date and a time; direct the communications circuitry to identify social network entries corresponding to the initial metadata that are within a predetermined time period of the date and the time of the calendar entry; extract additional metadata from the social network entries, wherein the additional metadata was not previously associated with the media item; determine whether the additional metadata meets one or more association criteria; in accordance with a determination that the additional metadata meets the one or more association criteria, associate the additional metadata with the media item; and in accordance with a determination that the additional metadata does not meet the one or more association criteria, forgo the association of the additional metadata with the media item.