Patent ID: 6968366
Filing Date: 2005-11-22
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of creating and searching a searchable multimedia database, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining a previously-authored rich media file, the previously-authored file comprising one or more forms of media-based content and descriptive information; extracting individual forms of the media-based content and the descriptive information from the previously-authored file respectively utilizing one or more content-based extractors and a descriptive information-based extractor, wherein a particular content-based extractor is operative to extract searchable content units associated with a particular content type and the descriptive information-based extractor is operative to extract descriptive information relating to non-searchable content; and processing the searchable content units and the descriptive information relating to the non-searchable content respectively utilizing a content-based search engine and a text search engine so as to generate a searchable multimedia database directory; wherein the one or more content-based extractors, the descriptive information-based extractor the content-based search engine and the text search engine are useable in a real-time search of a corresponding multimedia database in response to an input query and the searchable multimedia database directory is useable in an off-line search of the corresponding multimedia database in response to an input query.