Patent ID: 9652460
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for processing media files and associated metadata, comprising the steps of: receiving, at a mobile device, from a backend management server, a plurality of selectable electronic content metadata suggestions, wherein each of the plurality of selectable electronic content metadata suggestions is preconfigured at the backend server, is not a folder location, is not a pathname, and is a textual description of a tangible object; receiving, via a mobile device, an image file that displays a particular tangible object; generating, at the mobile device, file creation metadata corresponding to the creation of the image file, wherein the file creation metadata comprises a geographic location of the mobile device, time metadata associated with a time the image file was created, and an identifier associated with the device; based on the geographic location of the mobile device, the time metadata, and the identifier associated with the device, retrieving a subset of the plurality of selectable electronic content metadata suggestions, wherein each of the subset of the plurality of the selectable electronic content metadata suggestions corresponds to a textual description of a tangible object; displaying, on the mobile device, the subset of the plurality of selectable electronic content metadata suggestions for selective association by the user with the image file; receiving, at the mobile device, selection of a particular selectable electronic content metadata suggestion for association with the image file based on the particular tangible object, wherein the particular selectable electronic content metadata suggestion is descriptive of the particular tangible object displayed in the image file; embedding content metadata corresponding to the particular selectable electronic content metadata suggestion in the image file to create a new image file; and automatically routing the new image file from the mobile device to one or more particular storage locations at a remote database based on the content metadata embedded within the new image file and the creation metadata.