Patent ID: 7249142

Claim:
A method of generating sequences of elements from a collection of elements from references to and meta-data of said elements stored on a computer readable medium, said method utilizing a profile comprising information relating to the profile originator, the profile generation and profile applicability, said method mapping sets of element-candidates to sequences, and said method mapping elements to sequences from said sets, comprising the steps of: utilizing a sequence-template associated with, said sequence-template comprising a set of ideal-elements, arranged in a sequence specified by the profile originator in connection with the profile generation, identifying element-candidates by, for each specifying ideal-element in turn, generating a quality-ranked matchlist of the totality of elements in the collection of elements, generating matchlists by, for each element in the collection of element, calculating a quantifiable distance Δ, representing similarity, between the ideal-element and the first element based on the meta data and applying this step to each element in the collection of elements; and quality ranking the elements into a matchlist by increasing distance Δ to the ideal-element in question; and selecting the optimal candidate from each matchlist and placing it in a result-sequence.