Aol Inc.

America Online, Inc.

Jonathan Robert Nowitz

Srinivasan Sudanagunta

Austin David Dahl

Scott Chao-Chueh Lee

Robin Andrew Alexander

Eric Carl Rehm

Charles A Porter

Aram Christian Abajian

John Anthony Derosa

Ken Alan Berkun

Jennifer Weis

Julie T Trott

Michael Gerald Maitlen

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

A system and process for augmenting automated agents to search network based data stores generate a set of rules that describes the contents contained within structured data stores. This set of rules allows an automated agent to perform a focused search of a structured data store, thus eliminating searching for unnecessary content. The structure of the data store is defined and entities are categorized. Additionally, templates are created defining data, such as metadata fields, related to the entities. These definitions, categorizations, and templates are incorporated into the set of rules, which is utilized by the agent to search a data store on a network, such as a web site.

Method and system for rule based indexing of multiple data structures

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Seattle, WA, United States of America

Jonathan Robert Nowitz