Hierarchical Metadata Enrichment for Content Systems
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems for enriching visual or audiovisual content with metadata struggle to accurately anticipate user preferences due to coarse consideration of content-related tags, leading to inconsistent product recommendations.
Innovation Solution
A system that assigns metadata to products in a hierarchical order, allowing for a large number of metadata types and values, with program modules managing the assignment and certification of metadata across multiple domains to ensure coherence and security, enabling more precise user profiling and product suggestions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a limited number of basic metadata are assigned to audiovisual content products, then the enrichment process is simple and fast, but the ability to accurately group and recommend content based on user preferences deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The metadata system is segmented into a hierarchical structure with multiple levels (first level metadata types, second level metadata values, third level specific tags). This segmentation allows the system to manage a large number of metadata elements in an organized manner, improving content grouping accuracy without overwhelming the enrichment process. Each segment serves a specific function in the overall metadata assignment workflow.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a hierarchical dimension to the metadata structure, transforming a flat metadata assignment process into a multi-level hierarchical process. This dimensional change allows the system to handle complex content characteristics through multiple layers of abstraction, enabling accurate content grouping while maintaining manageable complexity at each level.
2Measurement precision
If a large number of metadata types and values are assigned to content products, then content can be more accurately categorized and recommended, but the complexity of the enrichment system increases
Solution Approach 1:
The enrichment system is divided into specialized program modules, each responsible for specific metadata assignment tasks. This segmentation of functionality reduces system complexity by creating modular, manageable components that can be developed and maintained independently, while collectively handling a large number of metadata types and values.
Solution Approach 2:
The hierarchical metadata structure introduces temporal and organizational dimensions to the enrichment process. The system progresses through multiple levels (types → values → specific tags) in a structured sequence, transforming a potentially chaotic large-scale metadata assignment into an organized multi-stage process that reduces perceived and actual system complexity.
3Reliability
If hierarchical metadata assignment is implemented with multiple levels, then metadata coherence and security are improved, but the time required for metadata assignment increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by establishing the hierarchical metadata structure and defining valid metadata types and values in advance. This preliminary organization enables faster subsequent metadata assignment operations, as the framework is already in place to guide the assignment process through multiple levels efficiently.
Solution Approach 2:
The hierarchical metadata structure enables self-validation and self-organization during the assignment process. Each level of the hierarchy provides constraints and guidance for the next level, allowing the system to automatically maintain coherence and validity without requiring extensive external verification at each step, thus reducing overall assignment time.
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AI summary
A system arranged to enrich visual or audio-visual product types or products with metadata is provided, wherein the metadata concerning each product has a multilevel hierarchy structure having high hierarchy metadata and low hierarchy metadata, and the low hierarchy metadata is hierarchically dependent from the high hierarchy metadata. The system has a first IT or computer domain having an IT apparatus having first program modules arranged to populate a database with a set of folders having files concerning product types or products. The system has a second IT domain having user terminals connected to a geographical network, and having second program modules arranged to enrich the files concerning the product types or products with the hierarchical metadata. A method for enriching product types or products with metadata is provided.