The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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:
Mar. 27, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2007
Roberto Warren Fisher, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Lisa Fredrickson, Oakland, CA (US);
Chris Kalaboukis, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Ronald Martinez, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ian C. Rogers, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Roberto Warren Fisher, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Lisa Fredrickson, Oakland, CA (US);
Chris Kalaboukis, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Ronald Martinez, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ian C. Rogers, Santa Monica, CA (US);
YAHOO! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A real-time locater for digital media objects, related to one or more creative compositions and accessible over a network, is described. A service-provider maintains a master index of the digital media objects. The master index is organized by considering each media object to be an example of a primary attribute associated with the media object by a multitude of users. The reference is constructed as a data structure of primary attributes and means of locating the media objects as instances of primary attributes. Each such media object may be further categorized by associating it with one or more secondary attributes. The data structure is augmented to provide for efficient location of media objects by relating secondary attributes.