Patent ID: 8838590

Claim:
A method of automatically composing a media article according to a template specifying the desired characteristics of the media article and having a plurality of sections, at least one of which contains a query, the method comprising: iteratively finding each section in the template and executing any query in that section to return a selection of media objects each of which is associated with a corresponding media element and comprises digital metadata about its respective media element; and analyzing the digital metadata of the selected media objects, which digital metadata includes: related media object identity data identifying a related media object, the media object containing the related media object identity data and the related media object being referred to as related media objects, and relationship data which indicates the type of relationship between what is represented by the respective media elements corresponding to the related media objects; wherein the method further comprises arranging the media elements associated with the selected media objects, or identifiers thereof, in a media article in dependence upon the type of relationship of the related media objects forming some or all of the selected media objects, or identifiers thereof, as determined by the metadata analysis.