Patent ID: 8280904

Claim:
A system for locating media data by associating with a classification comprising: a first computing device comprising first hardware and first software for controlling the first hardware to perform the following steps: creating a multi-part classification attribute value, wherein the multi-part classification attribute value comprises information corresponding to a hierarchical classification, the hierarchical classification being descriptive of media data, and wherein the multi-part classification attribute value comprises at least a classification data representing a category attribute value, a context attribute value, and a detail attribute value; creating a knowledge attribute data, wherein the knowledge attribute data comprises an alternative representation encoding the multi-part classification attribute value as a single value; classifying the media data by storing the knowledge attribute data and an association between the knowledge attribute data and the media data; receiving a media content query comprising at least a query value wherein the query value comprises information corresponding to a hierarchical classification that is descriptive of the requested media data and that comprises classification data representing at least a category search parameter, a context search parameter, and a detail search parameter; and retrieving the association between the knowledge attribute data and the media data wherein the multi-part classification attribute value represented by the knowledge attribute data matches the media content query value.