British Telecommunications Public Limited Company

British Telecommunications Corporation

Martin Russ

Timothy Sean Stevens

Ian Christopher Kegel

Jason Morphett

Jeremy M Thorne

Nicholas Hector Edwards

Alex Sj Palmer

Ludvig Lohse

Adam Hay

Louie Ks Lim

Paul Garner

Metadata is associated with media elements in a content store during automatic composition of media articles. The metadata includes relationship data indicating how what is portrayed by that media element relates to what is portrayed by one or more other media elements. Because relationship metadata is included media articles can be generated automatically with the need for the production of a detailed framework describing that media article.

Automatic media article composition using previously written and recorded media object relationship data

A computer apparatus which uses a database () to offer persistent storage of metadata () describing the content of media files (). Metadata is used to create a personalized media article () from those media files. That metadata also indicates relationships between those media files. In order to accelerate the creation of the personalized media article (), media element metadata items are stored in a cache. The usefulness of this cache is improved further by reading related media elements data from retrieved metadata items (), and then pre-fetching those items and placing them in the cache. Because the relatedness of the data items means that the related data item is more likely to be required in the near future, the caching method is more useful than known caching methods. Furthermore, the improved usefulness of the cache is achieved without placing constraints on where the data items are placed in the persistent storage.

Computer apparatus

An interface for a World Wide Web (WWW) browser is described which recognizes HyperText Markup Language (HTML) links embedded in WWW pages. Normally, such links are highlighted on a graphics screen and are activated using a pointing device such as a computer mouse. When each HTML link is recognized by the interface, it is assigned an identifier which can be selected by a user of a system incorporating the interface by means defined by the interface other than a mouse, for example by a keypad.

User interface for network browser including pre-processor for links embedded in hypermedia documents

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Ipswich, United Kingdom

Martin Russ