Patent ID: 8060477
Filing Date: 2011-11-15
Classification: G06F,H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for restoring a user's media collection from a central archiving system, the user's media collection comprising a plurality of media files having media content encoded with an encoding algorithm and stored on a user system, comprising: receiving a request from the user system to restore the user's media collection; accessing an archive record operating as an archive of the user's media collection, the archive record comprising, for each of the plurality of media files in the user's media collection, information identifying the media content for the media file, information identifying the encoding algorithm for the media file, and information identifying at least one quality parameter for the media file; recreating, at the central archiving system, each media file of the plurality of media files in the user's media collection by encoding, in a playable format, one of a plurality of reference media files stored at the central archiving system having media content corresponding to the media content identifies for the media file in the archive record using: one of a plurality of encoding algorithms corresponding to the encoding algorithm identified for the media file in the archive record and the at least one quality parameter for the media file identified in the archive record; and providing the recreated plurality of media files to the user system.