System and method for reconstructing music catalogs
AssigneeSymphonic Distribution Inc.
InventorEshan Shah Jahan
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Abstract
A system and method for automated reconstruction of previously released media content, without requiring detailed information from content owners. An embodiment of the system and method accesses content repositories of one or more digital service providers and retrieves metadata corresponding to the media content. Some embodiments include transforming the retrieved metadata to a standardized format. Audio fingerprinting can be used to match metadata to audio files and reconstruct the media content.
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A method for reconstructing a content owner's digital media catalog through a digitally accessible media source, comprising:
- acquiring a plurality of unique identifiers, wherein each unique identifier corresponds to media content in the content owner's digital media catalog;
- digitally accessing, over a computer network, a content repository of the digitally accessible media source, wherein the content repository includes metadata corresponding to media recordings;
- searching the accessed content repository for media recordings that match one of the unique identifiers in the plurality of unique identifiers;
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- responsive to finding a media recording that matches one of the unique identifiers in the content repository retrieving, from the content repository, metadata for the media recording that matches one of the unique identifiers.
A method for reconstructing a content owner's digital media catalog from one or more digital service providers, comprising:
- receiving a plurality of unique identifiers, wherein each unique identifier corresponds to media content in the content owner's digital media catalog;
- digitally accessing, over a computer network, one or more digital service providers' content repositories via application programming interfaces, wherein each application programming interface provides access to a particular digital service provider's content repository that includes metadata corresponding to the particular digital service provider's media recordings;
- for each of the unique identifiers, searching the one or more digital service providers' content repositories for media recordings that match the unique identifiers;
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- responsive to finding a media recording that matches one of the unique identifiers in the one or more digital service providers' content repositories retrieving metadata for the media recording that matches one of the unique identifiers.
A system for reconstructing a content owner's digital media catalog through a digitally accessible media source, the system executing the steps of:
- acquiring a plurality of unique identifiers, wherein each unique identifier corresponds to media content in the content owner's digital media catalog;
- digitally accessing, over a computer network, a content repository of the digitally accessible media source, wherein the content repository includes metadata corresponding to media recordings;
- searching the accessed content repository for media recordings that match one of the unique identifiers in the plurality of unique identifiers;
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- responsive to finding a media recording that matches one of the unique identifiers in the content repository retrieving, from the content repository, metadata for the media recording that matches one of the unique identifiers.
- linking the media file to the metadata values.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.