Patent ID: 7987160

Claim:
A computer-implemented method to display status of metadata updates associated with multimedia files, the method comprising: generating a read queue and a write queue having non-overlapping metadata entries associated with multimedia files; accessing the read queue, wherein the read queue stores metadata updates applied to the multimedia files but not applied to entries associated with the multimedia files in a metadata database; correcting metadata discrepancies between the multimedia files and the entries associated with the multimedia files in the metadata database; accessing the write queue, wherein the write queue stores metadata that has been applied to a metadata database but not to the multimedia files; applying metadata to a subset of multimedia files based on the entries corresponding to the subset of multimedia files in the metadata database; displaying status indicating the number of multimedia files remaining in the read and write queues, wherein the status includes a list of multimedia files and priorities associated with each multimedia file in the list and the priority of the multimedia file is modifiable via a graphical user interface.