Patent Document ID: 7765463
Application ID: 11657918

Base Claim:
1. A system for authoring metadata for describing multimedia contents, comprising: a storage device for loading a metadata document that describes corresponding multimedia contents; a metadata editor for displaying the loaded metadata document according to a predetermined method, and allowing a user to edit the metadata document; a multimedia access reproducer for accessing and reproducing the corresponding multimedia contents; an inter-media metadata interface for linking the multimedia access reproducer and the metadata editor and allowing the user to browse the multimedia contents and effectively edit a portion of the metadata document that relates to a specific interval of the multimedia contents; a metadata output device for outputting the edited metadata document according to a predefined format when the authoring is finished; wherein the storage device loads metadata schema information, and a metadata input device extracts valid portions and loads the valid portions into the storage device when invalid portions are found after checking the validity of the metadata document.

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Claim 10:
10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the format of the metadata output through the metadata output device is XML (extensible markup language).