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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Samuel Gustman, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Barbara DeLury, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Assignee:
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus is described wherein survey data collected from different survey versions may be retained in a cohesive data, or knowledge, base that may be used to catalogue multimedia data. A survey schema is defined that comprises survey elements that may be used to define surveys and capture survey data. In one or more embodiments of the invention, survey data may be linked to a multimedia cataloguing system. The linked survey data may be used alone or in combination with the cataloguing system to retrieve multimedia data.