Patent ID: 8719272

Claim:
A metadata tagging method for transmitting metadata from a transmitting device to a receiving device, the tagging method comprising: determining at the receiving device whether a plurality of information fields of the metadata associated with a media file are complete; tagging at the receiving device an incomplete information field of the metadata; detecting the tagging of the incomplete information field of the metadata by the transmitting device; transmitting information related to the tagged incomplete information field to the receiving device; and generating information related to tagged incomplete information field of the metadata, comprising: providing at least one tagging data field, wherein each of the plurality of information fields associated with one of a plurality of data elements of the metadata; identifying one of presence and absence of at least one of the plurality of information fields associated with the metadata being an equivalent of the at least one tagging data field; capturing as the tag data the at least one of the plurality of data elements associated with the at least one of the plurality of information fields being an equivalent of the at least one tagging data field in response to presence thereof being identified; requesting from the device the at least one of the plurality of data elements associated with the at least one of the plurality of information fields being an equivalent of the at least one tagging data field in response to absence thereof being identified; storing the media file; and providing an indicator being indicative of the stored media file, the indicator being the tag data.