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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2005
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2001
Theodore George Diamond, Seattle, WA (US);
Daniel Allen Hendrick, Redmond, WA (US);
Eric Carl Rehm, Bainbridge Island, WA (US);
Melissa Anne Riesland, Seattle, WA (US);
Theodore George Diamond, Seattle, WA (US);
Daniel Allen Hendrick, Redmond, WA (US);
Eric Carl Rehm, Bainbridge Island, WA (US);
Melissa Anne Riesland, Seattle, WA (US);
America Online, Inc., Dulles, VA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for ranking relevancy of metadata associated with media on a computer network, such as multimedia and streaming media, include categorizing the metadata into sets of metadata. The categories are broad categories relating to areas such as who, what, when, and where, such as artist, media type, and creation date, creation location. Weights are assigned to each set of metadata. Weights are related to technical information such as bit rate, duration, sampling rate, frequency of occurrence of a specific term, etc. A score is calculated for ranking the relevancy of each set of metadata. The score is calculated in accordance with the assigned weight and category. This score is available for search systems (e.g., search engines) and/or users to determine the relative ranking of search results.