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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2005
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2001
Serhan Dagtas, Croton on Hudson, NY (US);
Radu S. Jasinschi, Ossining, NY (US);
Nevenka Dimitrova, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Serhan Dagtas, Croton on Hudson, NY (US);
Radu S. Jasinschi, Ossining, NY (US);
Nevenka Dimitrova, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for conducting exclusive and inclusive metadata searches to identify and select multimedia programs. The apparatus of the invention including a metadata search controller that compares user specified search words with metadata words to find programs that meet user specified search criteria. The metadata search controller executes an inclusive metadata search to search for matches between a user specified search word and a metadata word that is related to the user specified search word in a word pair contained within a word pair database. The metadata search controller calculates a rank value for each program that is found by a metadata search and creates a ranked list of such programs.