Administering A Digital Media File Having One Or More Potentially Offensive Portions
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsJames G. McLean, Daniel J. Winarski
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Abstract
Methods, digital media files, apparatus, and products for administering a digital media file having one or more potentially offensive portions are described that include inserting in the digital media file at least one tag identifying as potentially offensive a portion of the digital media file, the tag also identifying a location of the potentially offensive portion in the digital media file; and transmitting the digital media file with the tag to a playback device.
Claims21
A method of administering a digital media file having one or more potentially offensive portions, the method comprising:
- inserting in the digital media file at least one tag identifying as potentially offensive a portion of the digital media file, the tag also identifying a location of the potentially offensive portion in the digital media file;
- and
- transmitting the digital media file with the tag to a playback device.
An apparatus for administering a digital media file having one or more potentially offensive portions, the apparatus comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions capable of:
- inserting in the digital media file at least one tag identifying as potentially offensive a portion of the digital media file, the tag also identifying a location of the potentially offensive portion in the digital media file;
- and
- transmitting the digital media file with the tag to a playback device.
A computer program product for administering a digital media file having one or more potentially offensive portions, the computer program product disposed in a computer readable medium, the computer program product comprising computer program instructions capable of:
- inserting in the digital media file at least one tag identifying as potentially offensive a portion of the digital media file, the tag also identifying a location of the potentially offensive portion in the digital media file;
- and
- transmitting the digital media file with the tag to a playback device.
A digital media file comprising:
- digital media content;
- and
- a tag identifying as potentially offensive a portion of the digital media content.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.