Patent ID: 7415662

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a first input indicating that a user has dragged and dropped an icon representing a first metadata tag onto a graphical representation of a first digital media object, the first metadata tag having associated first metadata, the first digital media object being one of a plurality of digital media objects; retrieving, in response to the first input, the first metadata associated with the first metadata tag; identifying, in a database, a first database record that is associated with the first digital media object and updating the first database record to include the retrieved first metadata, the database comprising a plurality of records, each associated with a respective one of the plurality of digital media objects; receiving a second input indicating that the user has dragged and dropped the icon onto a graphic representation of a search function for the database; querying the database for digital media objects associated with metadata that matches the first metadata associated with the first metadata tag represented by the icon; and displaying a representation of the digital media objects that are responsive to the database query.