Patent ID: 7962937
Filing Date: 2011-06-14
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A computerized method executable by a processor of a catalog service for providing a catalog of media files, said media files being accessible remotely by a client computer, said method comprising: receiving a plurality of source collections from a plurality of content providers, each of said source collections comprising a plurality of media files and metadata associated therewith available from at least one corresponding content providers, wherein a subset of the media files from different content providers have similar content, and wherein a subset of the metadata from the different content providers have non-identical content; row level interlinking the source collections based on rules stored in a memory area associated with the catalog service, said row level interlinking further comprising determining a similarity score for at least one of the stored rules and performing said row level interlinking when the similarity score is greater than a minimum similarity threshold; collection level interlinking the row level interlinked source collection into a destination collection, said collection level interlinking comprising: generating a user catalog from the destination collection in a pre-defined catalog format for consumption by a user via the client computer, said user catalog including the selected media file and further including, associated with the selected media file, the combined metadata; and transmitting at least a portion of the generated user catalog to the client computer.