Discovery Communications, Inc.

William C Hurst

Dennis Killingsworth

Melissa Roberts

Beth Jackson

Jarrod Clift

Pedro Lopez

Chris Goodacre

Lisa Seeto

Brant Boehmann

A central asset registry and associated satellite registries tie Digital Asset Management (DAM) repositories and satellite repositories into a unified enterprise system. The system removes rights and asset relationship tracking from the DAMs and the satellites by gathering asset metadata tags and capturing digital asset rights and relationships between assets to improve speed, scalability, and flexibility in analyzing and traversing networks of rights and relationships of digital assets. The central asset registry and the satellite registries use a pluggable architecture and track and store multi-dimensional relationships as an asset hierarchy. The asset hierarchy and rights model depicts rights and relationship data between the assets and provides a flexible array of asset types and properties for addition of new assets, new asset types, and new rights without re-factoring the other data, nodes, and edges. The system uses asset metadata to create edge relationships between the assets. The combination of the satellite registries and the central asset registry facilitates queries and retrieval of the media assets.

Systems and methods for federated searches of assets in disparate DAM repositories

Systems and methods for federated searches of assets in disparate dam repositories

Growing community of inventors

Silver Spring, MD, United States of America

William C Hurst