Media Manager Module Associating Media Files with Personal Information
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing complexity of mobile devices with converging communication and computing technologies leads to challenges in managing and associating diverse information types, such as media files and personal information, which can limit their usefulness.
Innovation Solution
A mobile computing device system that includes a radio sub-system for communications and a processing sub-system to connect databases, allowing geographical position data to be used to associate media files with descriptive information from navigation and contact databases, thereby enhancing media file organization and cataloging.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple databases and applications are integrated into a mobile device to provide diverse functionality, then the device versatility is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges media information management with personal information management by integrating the media player with contact lists, calendars, and navigation databases. The media player automatically associates media files with related personal information such as contact names, event details, and location data, creating a unified information management system that reduces overall device complexity while maintaining versatility.
Solution Approach 2:
The media player is designed with multi-functionality to not only play media files but also to manage and associate media information with personal data from various databases. It serves as a universal interface that handles media playback, information extraction, data association, and presentation, thereby improving device versatility without proportionally increasing complexity.
2Ease of operation
If media files are associated with additional descriptive information from multiple databases, then the media file organization is improved, but the processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-establishing associations between media files and related personal information in databases. When a user requests media information, the system can quickly retrieve pre-associated data rather than performing complex queries in real-time, thereby improving organization ease while minimizing processing time delays.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary data structure or buffer that stores pre-fetched and pre-processed associations between media files and personal information. This intermediary layer acts as a cache that reduces the need for real-time database queries, thus improving media organization accessibility while reducing processing time requirements.
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AI summary
System, apparatus, method, and article for techniques to associate media data with related information. A mobile computing device includes a media manager module. The media manager module processes a media file including metadata. The media manager module retrieves a first content from a metadata field in the metadata. The media manager module retrieves a second content from a field in an application file associated with an application client. The media manager module compares the first and second contents and determines whether the first and second contents are associated. If the first and second contents are associated, the media manager module retrieves the second content and inserts the second content in a second metadata field of the media file.