Patent ID: 8015189

Claim:
A method for associating meta-data from one or more customized feeds with media objects, comprising: providing an interface for customized selection of an extensible set of one or more feeds for tagging media objects, wherein a plurality of types and remote sources of feeds are selectable via the interface; in response to a user selecting a customized set of one or more selected feeds that is extensible by the user via the interface by entering a reference for each selected feed, obtaining and periodically updating a plurality of meta-data items by the one or more selected feeds, wherein the meta-data items are retrieved from a remote device and the meta-data items describe a characteristic of a plurality of different media objects; in response to a user selecting a feed tagging option for a particular media object via a user interface of a computer device, filtering the obtained meta-data items based on a context of the particular media object and presenting the filtered meta-data items to the computer device for individual selection by the user for tagging a particular media object; in response to the user selecting, via a user interface of the computer device, a selected portion of the filtered meta-data items or tagging the particular media object, tagging the particular media object with the selected portion of the filtered meta-data items and retaining an association between the selected portion of the filtered meta-data items and the tagged particular media object in a storage device; and organizing the particular media object based on a meta-data identifier which is included in the selected portion of the filtered meta-data items.