• AOP Code: DEV 1883
• Exp: 12/14/12
• Categories: Technology
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• Industry: Computer Technology

Digital Library System

This Study relates to a system that, in essence, catalogs and stores multimedia data using keywords.  The keywords used in the system identify the multimedia data, and are also related to each other through various relationships.  The specifications define “multimedia data” as a combination of two or more of the following: text, graphics, video, animation, and sound.

References of interest will focus on systems, methods, and/or software code comprising:

(a) Keywords and/or attributes for the multimedia data (preferably video), where the keywords are interrelated to each other;

(b) An indexing server that comprises a database management system, with catalogue elements stored in the database system;

(c) A text interface that allows a user to query the database and search through the catalogue elements to locate desired multimedia data stored in the overall system;

(d) A tertiary storage manager that physically stores the multimedia data;

(e) An archive server that tells the system which tertiary storage manager holds the requested multimedia data;

(f)  A media player that plays back any retrieved multimedia data; as well as

(g) A browser, and transfer protocols and/or interfaces that facilitate the search and playback.

Also of interest are:

1. References that disclose the use of such a system over a wide area network, such as the Internet,

2. References that disclose a distribution set up where multimedia data is stored on both a main site with permanent storage and a plurality of remote sites, or 

References that disclose an access management system, where the system allows for different functionality based on user type.