Patent Document ID: 8990223
Application ID: 13537664
Patent Flag: 1

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 generated weighted attribute score of each compared attribute of each candidate media content record to generate the composite score for each candidate media content record; and linking the received primary media content record to a stored candidate media content record based on the generated composite scores.