Patent ID: 7783624

Claim:
A method to facilitate electronic commerce in digital media objects comprising crawling a remote host system to index one or more resources hosted by the remote host system; responsive to detection of a commerce tag associated with a digital media object embedded in a resource of the one or more resources, accessing a registry of rights information to obtain one or more attributes of a license offer associated with the digital media object, wherein the commerce tag comprises a bundle tag identifying an archetypal media license offer from a plurality of archetypal media license offers and one or more parameter tags including data values corresponding to missing parameter values in the archetypal media license offer identified in the bundle tag, and wherein each of the archetypal media license offers corresponds to a set of predefined licensing terms; storing, in a searchable database, a data locator for the digital media object in a search index in association with one or more attributes of the digital media object and the one or more attributes of the license offer associated with the digital media object including the bundle tag and the one or more parameter tags; providing a query interface that facilitates searches for media objects based on one or more attributes of the digital media objects, and one or more license offer attributes.