Patent ID: 7730036

Claim:
A method implemented at least in part by a computer system, the method for organizing digital content records and comprising the steps of: receiving a plurality of digital content records, at least some of said digital content records having associated metadata identifying at least a time-date of capture, a location of capture, or a time-date of capture and a location of capture, wherein at least one of the digital content records has associated metadata identifying a time-date of capture, and at least one of the digital content records has associated metadata identifying a location of capture; defining an event at least by identifying a set of event boundaries associated at least with a span of time and a geographic area; identifying digital content records (“event content-records”) of the plurality of digital content records to be associated with the event, at least some of the digital content records being identified as event-content records because they meet metadata conditions, wherein the metadata conditions include that the time-date-of-capture metadata and the location-of-capture metadata of the corresponding digital content records identify a time-date-of-capture and a location-of-capture within the span of time and the geographic area, respectively; associating at least some of the event content-records (“associated event-content-records”) with the event; storing information identifying the association of the at least some of the event content-records with the event in a computer-accessible memory; and wherein the location-of-capture metadata identifies a network address of a network access point, wherein the geographic area event boundary is defined at least in part by a particular network address, and wherein the metadata conditions include that the network address correspond to the particular network address.