Patent ID: 8166305

Claim:
A method comprising: extracting, via a computing device, a portion of a first media item having first metadata and a portion of a second media item having second metadata, each respective portion being a portion or component of a media item and not the entire media item; combining, via the computing device, said first portion and said second portion to form a composite media item; and analyzing, via the computing device, said first metadata and said second metadata to extract portions of said first and second metadata to form a new set of metadata for association with said composite media item, wherein the first metadata remains associated with the first media item portion and the second metadata remains associated with the second media item portion after said combining to form the composite media item and corresponding set of metadata in order to preserve a relationship between the respective media items and the media item portions, wherein upon extracting the first and second media item portions, the media item portions and respective media items exist separately.