Patent ID: 8572104
Filing Date: 2013-10-29
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: maintaining a database on a digital media storage device, said database including a first plurality of digital media items; defining a digital media collection, comprising a list of a second plurality of digital media items, each having a similar set of characteristics, said characteristics indicative of intrinsic and extrinsic features of said digital media items; based at least in part on information regarding said defined digital media collection, automatically identifying a set of digital media items present in said second plurality and not present in said first plurality; determining if a threshold number of digital media items present in said second plurality are present in said first plurality; and in response to said determining, specifying, without user intervention, a commercial transaction to obtain said set of digital media items, such that said database would contain a complete copy of said defined digital media collection, wherein the method is performed by one or more processors.