Patent ID: 8024311

Claim:
A method implemented at least in part by a data processing system, the method for identifying media assets that are potentially relevant to contextual information, and the method comprising the steps of: receiving, by the data processing system, the contextual information, wherein the received contextual information comprises a first set of contextual information and a second set of information, the second set being received after the first set; identifying a chosen event based at least upon an analysis of the contextual information; identifying a set of media assets based at least upon an analysis of the identified event, wherein the step of identifying the set of media assets comprises: identifying a superset of media assets associated with the chosen event based at least upon an analysis of the first set of contextual information at a time when the second set of contextual information has not vet been received, the superset of media assets comprising more media assets than the set of media assets; and identifying the set of media assets from the superset of media assets based at least upon an analysis of the second set of contextual information; associating, in a processor-accessible memory system, at least some of the contextual information with the chosen event, or at least one asset in the set of media assets, or both the chosen event and at least one asset in the set of media assets.