Patent ID: 8620905
Filing Date: 2013-12-31
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of identifying matching media items: storing by a media server (i) a controlled vocabulary which is represented as a hierarchically linked set of nodes wherein a plurality of nodes are concept nodes that correspond to concepts, wherein a concept is a text description that corresponds to one or more keywords, and wherein each node, except for the top node, has a parent node, and wherein the distance between a first node and a second node is the number of parents in a path from the first node to the second node and wherein concept nodes that are closer to the top node correspond to concepts that have broader meanings than concepts that correspond to concept nodes that are further from the top node, and (ii) a library of media items, said media library including a database of records for each media item, wherein each record includes at least one metadata field that includes at least one assigned keyword and wherein each assigned keyword in a metadata field corresponds to a concept in the controlled vocabulary; receiving, by the media server, a designation of a media item from a user computer; retrieving, by the media server, from the record in the media library that corresponds to the designated media item, the at least one keyword assigned to the at least one metadata field; for each of the at least one assigned keyword: