Patent Document ID: 20140006423
Application ID: 13537664
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of managing an aggregation database comprising: receiving a primary media content record from an external source; comparing a group of attributes of the received primary media content record against a corresponding group of attributes of each candidate media content record of a first set of candidate media content records stored in the aggregation database; computing an attribute score for each compared attribute of each candidate media content record of the first set based on the comparing; computing a composite score for each candidate media content record of the first set of candidate media content records by: multiplying the attribute score of each compared attribute of each candidate media content record by a corresponding weight to generate a weighted attribute score, and adding the weighted attribute scores of a candidate media content record to generate the composite score; and linking the received primary media content record to a stored candidate media content record based on the generated composite scores.