Describing media content in terms of degrees

A method comprising:

• receiving a plurality of descriptions associated with media content from a plurality of description providers, each description indicating one or more genre associated with the media content;
• assigning a relative degree to each of the genre to indicate how related each genre is to the media content relative to another genre;
• and
• providing the relative degree that was assigned to each of the genre for display to a user.

A method comprising:

• modeling media content descriptions with a schema;
• representing media content with a media identification class in the schema;
• representing description providers with a provider class in the schema;
• representing descriptions of media content in terms of genre degrees with a genre degree class in the schema;
• creating an association between the media identification class and the genre degrees class to represent a description of a media content;
• and
• creating an association between the provider class and the genre degrees class to represent a description of media content received from a description provider.

A method comprising:

• modeling media content descriptions with a schema;
• representing media content with a media identification class in the schema;
• representing description providers with a provider class in the schema;
• representing descriptions of media content in terms of degrees of intent with an intent degree class in the schema;
• creating an association between the media identification class and the intent degrees class to represent a description of a media content;
• and
• creating an association between the provider class and the intent degrees class to represent a description of media content received from a description provider.

One or more computer-readable media comprising instructions that, when executed, direct a computing system to:

• receive a first description of media content that identifies a first genre associated with the media content;
• receive a second description of the media content that identifies a second genre associated with the media content;
• and
• assign a first degree to the first genre and a second degree to the second genre.

One or more computer-readable media comprising instructions that, when executed, direct a computing system to:

• receive a plurality of descriptions of media content from a plurality of description providers, with individual ones of the descriptions indicating one or more genre associated with the media content, each of the description providers having an associated trust level;
• calculate a preliminary degree associated with each genre according to the equation:
• 6 P G = ∑ X = 1 n ⁢ ( G X * T X )
• where:
• PG is a preliminary degree associated with a Gth genre;
• GX is a degree associated with the Gth genre as indicated by the description of the media content received from an Xth description provider;
• n is a number of descriptions of the media content;
• and
• TX is a trust level associated with the Xth description provider;
• and
• calculate a relative degree associated with each genre according to the equation:
• 7 D G = ( P G * 100 ) ∑ X = 1 m ⁢ P X
• where:
• DG is a relative degree associated with the Gth genre;
• and
• m is a number of genre associated with the media content.

One or more computer-readable media comprising a schema, the schema comprising:

• at least one media identification class that represents media content;
• at least one provider class that represents providers of media content descriptions;
• and
• at least one genre degrees class that represents descriptions of media content in terms of genre degrees, the genre degrees class being modeled as an association between the media identification class and the provider class.

One or more computer-readable media comprising a schema, the schema comprising:

• at least one media identification class that represents media content;
• at least one provider class that represents providers of media content descriptions;
• and
• at least one intent degrees class that represents descriptions of media content in terms of intent degrees, the intent degrees class being modeled as an association between the media identification class and the provider class.

One or more computer-readable media comprising a schema, the schema comprising:

• at least one media identification class that represents media content;
• at least one provider class that represents providers of media content descriptions;
• at least one program type class that represents a classification of media content descriptions received from description providers, the program type class being modeled as an association between the media identification class and the provider class;
• at least one genre degrees class that represents descriptions of media content in terms of genre degrees, the genre degrees class being modeled as an association between the media identification class and the provider class;
• and
• at least one intent degrees class that represents descriptions of media content in terms of intent degrees, the intent degrees class being modeled as an association between the media identification class and the provider class.