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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2008
Systems, methods and computer program products for indexing, searching and visualizing media content
Daniel M. Coffman, Bethel, CT (US);
Barry Leiba, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
Chandrasekhar Narayanaswami, Wilton, CT (US);
Marcel C. Rosu, Ossining, NY (US);
Daniel M. Coffman, Bethel, CT (US);
Barry Leiba, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
Chandrasekhar Narayanaswami, Wilton, CT (US);
Marcel C. Rosu, Ossining, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a method for searching a metadata repository and visualizing the results of the search, wherein the metadata in the metadata repository is associated with a plurality of media content, and wherein each media content including at least one audio track. The method comprises retrieving the media contents used to generate the metadata terms satisfying a search criteria, and generating a ranked list of search results. The method further includes visualizing the ranked list of media contents, and displaying relevant metadata and corresponding associations for the media contents to enable navigation of the at least one audio track included in the media contents.