Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Aol Inc.

America Online, Inc.

John Anthony Derosa

Scott Chao-Chueh Lee

Robin Andrew Alexander

Eric Carl Rehm

Srinivasan Sudanagunta

Charles A Porter

Aram Christian Abajian

Austin David Dahl

Jennifer Lynn Kolar

Jonathan Robert Nowitz

Ken Alan Berkun

A method and system for utilizing metadata to search for media, such as multimedia and streaming media, includes searching for the media, receiving results, extracting metadata associated with the media, enhancing the extracted metadata, and grouping the search results in accordance with attributes of the enhanced metadata. Enhancing and grouping include adding related metadata to the database of metadata, iteratively using metadata to search for more media related data, removing duplicate URLs, collapsing URLs that are variants of each other, and masking out superfluous terms from URLs. The resultant metadata and media files are available to users and search engines.

Methods and systems for enhancing metadata

A method and system for improving the quality of original metadata associated with media on a computer network, such as multimedia and streaming media, includes analyzing each field of the URL of the multimedia and streaming media. Each field is analyzed to identify new metadata associated with that field. Identified new metadata is added to the original metadata. In another embodiment, the fields in the URL are reorganized in reverse order and metadata associated with a prefix of fields of the reorganized URL is added to the original metadata. In yet another embodiment, the contents of the field next to the prefix of fields is used to improve the quality of the original metadata.

Metadata quality improvement

Internet streaming media workflow architecture

Growing community of inventors

Seattle, WA, United States of America

John Anthony Derosa