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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2003
Vidur Apparao, Palo Alto, CA (US);
John Bandhauer, Aptos, CA (US);
Christopher Robert Waterson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Vidur Apparao, Palo Alto, CA (US);
John Bandhauer, Aptos, CA (US);
Christopher Robert Waterson, San Francisco, CA (US);
America Online, Inc., Dulles, VA (US);
Abstract
The digital asset management system is responsive to user interactions with digital assets. Based on user interaction, the system generates a ranking of digital assets to reflect the value of the digital assets to the user. The ranking is based in part on access frequency and recency, and the number and types of uses of the digital assets. An access hierarchy is derived from the ranking that stores the digital assets so that higher ranked digital assets are more easily accessed from storage than lower ranked digital assets. The digital assets can include any of digital images, audio files, and Uniform Resource Locators. The system can also distinguish between different types of uses, such as passive viewing or playback, file sharing, transport, and editing. The system preferably allows subjective values to be assigned to digital assets that can be factored into the ranking independently of usage patterns.