Patent ID: 8001124

Claim:
A server for suggesting keywords for tagging digital media comprising: a) a communication interface coupling the server to a network; and b) a control system configured to: i) receive a request for suggested keywords for the digital media from a requesting node, the request including positional information defining a location associated with the digital media; ii) generate a list of suggested keywords, which are metadata, based on the positional information defining the location associated with the digital media such that the list of suggested keywords includes previous keywords used to describe other images captured proximate to the location associated with the digital media, wherein the control system is configured to generate the list of suggested keywords by being further configured to: A) search a plurality of digital media previously captured by a plurality of owners to find previously captured digital media captured at the location or proximate to the location defined by the positional information, and identifying a first plurality of keywords used to tag the previously captured digital media; B) provide the positional information to a location keyword registry service and receive a second plurality of keywords associated with the location defined by the positional information from the location keyword registry service, wherein the location keyword registry service provides the second plurality of keywords based on a collaborative process with a plurality of users defining at least one keyword for each of a plurality of locations; and iii) provide the list of suggested keywords to the requesting node via the network, wherein at least one of the list of suggested keywords is selected at the requesting node for storage in association with the digital media at the requesting node.