282 results about "Metadatabase" patented technology

A method for processing a natural language input provided by a user includes: providing a natural language query input to the user; performing, based on the input, a search of one or more language-based databases; providing, through a user interface, a result of the search to the user; identifying, for the one or more language-based databases, a finite number of database objects; and determining a plurality of combinations of the finite number of database objects. The one or more language-based databases include at least one metadata database including at least one of a group of information types including case information, keywords, information models, and database values.

A system and method for generating a list is provided. The system includes a seed item input subsystem, an item identifying subsystem, a descriptive metadata similarity determining subsystem and a list generating subsystem that builds a list based, at least in part, on similarity processing performed on seed item descriptive metadata and user item descriptive metadata and user selected thresholds applied to such similarity processing. The method includes inexact matching between identifying metadata associated with new user items and identifying metadata stored in a reference metadata database. The method further includes subjecting candidate user items to similarity processing, where the degree to which the candidate user items are similar to the seed item is determined, and placing user items in a list of items based on user selected preferences for (dis)similarity between items in the list and the seed item.

Improved techniques for enhancing, associating, and linking various sources of metadata for music files, to allow integration of commercially generated metadata with user-entered metadata, and to ensure that metadata provided to the user is of the highest quality and accuracy available, even when the metadata comes from disparate sources having different levels of credibility. The invention further provides improved techniques for identifying approximate matches when querying metadata databases, and also provides improved techniques for accepting user submissions of metadata, for categorizing user submissions according to relative credibility, and for integrating user submissions with existing metadata.

A reference to auxiliary data is steganographically encoded within a media signal. The auxiliary data is stored in a metadata database that maps the reference encoded in the media signal to its corresponding metadata. Various application programs and devices can access the metadata by extracting the reference from the media signal, and querying the database for metadata corresponding to the reference. The metadata database may be implemented in a network server to make metadata readily available to devices and applications distributed throughout a network. This steganographic link to metadata may be used to retrieve metadata across media management systems. In one configuration, for example, media management systems have metadata servers that maintain metadata for a collection of media signals. The metadata server is responsible for responding to requests for metadata associated with media titles in its collection. In the event that a metadata server does not have metadata associated with a particular media title, it forwards the reference extracted from the media signal to a metadata router, which in turn, re-directs the request to the appropriate metadata server.

Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata or indexes of content of files. In one exemplary method, notifications to update a metadata database or an index database are combined into a combined notification. According to other aspects, an order among logical locations on a storage device is determined in order to specify a sequence for scanning for files to be indexed. According to another aspect, a method includes determining whether to index a file based on a path name of the file relative to a plurality of predetermined path names.

A method of graphically displaying the path of a customer traversing a web site and related business data is described. The method includes receiving a user request for a visualization. The user request may include data filters and exclusions. Responsive to the user request, traffic data is selected for analysis. The selected traffic data is analyzed and displayed to the user. The display may be in the form of a visualization including a graph and related business data. The graph may be of an overview, referral, path, page-to-page path, and animation type. A system for visualizing traffic patterns and the path of a customer at a site is described in conjunction with the above method. The system includes a logical data model, a dimensional data model, a report specification, a graphical interface, metadata database and an analysis report. The graphical interface is used for viewing visualization information.

A playlist of multimedia content is generated based on the results of a search algorithm operating on a metadata database connected to a network. The search algorithm utilizes a search vector that is generated using demographic data and consumer profile data, and/or based on a consumer search request. The playlist, which can list heterogeneous titles of multimedia content, may be accessed anywhere on the network by any suitable authorized device.

Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata. In one exemplary method, a search is performed based on a search query of at least metadata of a first plurality of files and a set of a permissions is determined for a first user, wherein the set of permissions defines at least a right to view information. Results of the search are displayed based upon the set of permissions. In the metadata database, there is metadata from a number of files of different types. The type of information in metadata for a first type of file differs from a type of information in metadata for a second type of file.

A method of acquiring data associated with a television program consistent with certain embodiments involves acquiring information that identifies a currently playing television program; receiving a command from a user interface that selects an image forming a portion of a frame of video displayed on the television, wherein said frame of video is a portion of the television program; accessing a specified web site that contains a database of metadata associated with television programs via the Internet; querying the specified web site for metadata associated with the image by providing the image along with the information that identifies the currently playing television program; receiving a response from the specified web site that provides metadata associated with the image; and displaying at least a portion of the metadata. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.

Disclosed is a virtual file system integrating and managing multiple cloud storages. A virtual file system may comprise an API database storing information on open API of the cloud storages, a storage state database storing state information of the cloud storages, a metadata database storing metadata of the cloud storages, a cloud storage allocation part receiving an user request and selecting a cloud storage appropriate for the user request among the cloud storages by referring to the storage state database and the metadata database, and an API mapping part reading out open API information of the cloud storage selected by the cloud storage allocation part from the API database, converting the user request to an open API of the selected cloud storage, and transferring the converted open API to the selected cloud storage.

A data delivery system which delivers created data to all the parties that need it. Documents such as engineering drawings are stored as bulk data files in a bulk data database. Metadata files containing attribute information of bulk data are stored in a metadata database. When the date and time of a data distribution session is given to a date/time setting unit, an attribute identification unit makes access to a relevant metadata file to identify the attributes of the bulk data to be transmitted. Based on this result, a destination determination unit determines the destinations of each bulk data file. A format identification unit then identifies which data formats the receiving stations can handle. If necessary, the data format is changed by a format converter, so as to meet the requirements of each destination. Summary data briefly describes what kinds of bulk data files are to be distributed. A summary data transmitter compiles such summary data and sends it to the receiving stations. Each receiving station now returns a downloading request, and in response to this, a transmitter sends out the requested bulk data files, which meets the destination's format guideline. A receiver in the receiving station accepts those bulk data files and a reproduction unit restores the received data to its original form.

A system for locating, segmenting, annotating and retrieving multimedia files, provides a database of metadata (68) relating to multimedia files (70), a database manager (64), and a database client (66) for accessing the data contained within the database. The database client (66), together with the metadata database (68) and database manager (64) provide a variety of different functionalities, namely a deep linking functionality, a segmentation functionality, a metadata annotation functionality, a retrieval functionality, and an access functionality. The user, through database client (68) annotates the multimedia file or segment of multimedia file with metadata which is saved in the database (68). When the user desires to locate a multimedia file, the metadata is searched or browsed to locate the database entry associated with the multimedia file in question. The system further provides the ability for the user to load, open and start the playing of a multimedia file from a point intermediate to its start and end point, and without the user having to experience the portion between the start point and the intermediate point, break down larger files into shorter segments or individual frames (or still images) or regions within frames (or still images) without creating additional copies of the selected segments of the multimedia files of interest, thereby avoiding copyright issues from arising.

Database replication across different database platforms is carried out by transforming a binary log of database updates made to a first database into an SQL loader format of a second database and then processing the transformed log of updates into the second database. The transformation of the binary log includes the step of parsing the binary log into SQL statements, storing the SQL statements as a flat file, and transforming the flat file into an input file having the SQL loader format of the second database. The metadata of the flat files is stored in a separate database. As the flat files are transformed into input files of the second database, the status of the flat files is updated in the metadata database.

The invention relates to a digital content inventory management system supporting automatic mass data processing and the method thereof, which comprise a management server responsible for exchanging messages with and responding messages to other modules, determining the position where resources are stored, allocating computing servers for computation tasks and controlling the work flow, an uploading client responsible for uploading external multimedia resources, a artificial auditing and annotating client for providing an interaction interface for artificial audition and annotation of metadata results, computing servers responsible for managing and starting up an computing engine to acquire metadata results of media resources, a resource storage server responsible for managing media resource information, a metadata server responsible for managing metadata information, a disk array responsible for storing physical files of media resources, a resource database and a metadata database. The digital content inventory management system supporting automatic mass data processing and the method thereof can automatically process mass media data, automatically acquire the contents of multimedia data and perform automatic inventory of the contents, thus achieving the effective management of the contents of mass multimedia data.

Systems and methods for providing Internet Content Guides (ICG) on playback devices that can be used to access content via the Internet from a plurality of sources using a remote database containing navigation hierarchy definitions for specific device models and/or device instances are described, where content metadata included in the remote database is collected by a remote server from the plurality of sources. One embodiment of the invention includes a metacenter configured to retrieve content metadata from feeds on a plurality of remote servers describing content accessible via the remote servers and to use the content metadata retrieved from the feeds to update a content metadata database, and a plurality of playback devices configured to communicate with the metacenter and access content via the Internet. In addition, the content metadata database defines a plurality of navigation hierarchies for different playback devices, where each navigation hierarchy includes category information and content information, each playback device is configured to obtain a navigation hierarchy appropriate to the playback device from the metacenter, where the navigation hierarchy obtained by the playback device only includes category and content information that the playback device is authorized to access and is capable of playing back, and the playback devices are configured to generate an Internet content guide using the navigation hierarchy obtained from the metacenter.

The invention provides data storage, query and loading methods and devices. The data storage method includes steps of setting up objects for user data when users store data, wherein the objects include the user data and attribute information thereof, and each object is provided with a corresponding object identifier; storing the attribute information of the user data into a metadatabase, and writing the user data into a corresponding bottom storage system according to the attribute information of the user data, wherein the metadatabase is used for storing correlations of attribute information lists of the attribute information through the identifiers of the object. The data query method includes determining data storage positions to inquire data according to the identifiers of the objects in the attribute information list after receiving query requests. The data loading method includes downloading the data after rectifying the attribute information lists corresponding to the user data when the types of the user data require changes. According to the technical scheme, changes of the data structure can be well adapted under the condition that the software structure is not changed.