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AssigneeGetty Images, Inc.
InventorsAnna Bjarnestam, Karina Holm, Alan Capel, William G. Kuhn, Jason Staczek
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A computer-based method and system for classifying and locating media content is provided. In preferred embodiments, a dynamically modifiable, structured vocabulary system is used to drive a media classification and search system. An exemplary embodiment of the media classification and search system includes media content unit classification services, a media content unit search engine, and one or more data repositories, including typically a media content unit collection, metadata, the vocabulary, and a term-to-media content reverse index. The structured vocabulary provides a classification system, whose structure and relationships can be altered independently of the media content being classified, thus enabling tuning of the system without needing to reclassify data. The use of the structured vocabulary also increases the rate of success and efficiency in matching search requests to locate media content.
A method in a computer system for classifying and locating a plurality of media content units using a structured vocabulary stored in a data repository, the structured vocabulary having a plurality of terms ordered such that the relationship of each term to each other term is inherent in the ordering, comprising:
A structured vocabulary stored in a computer memory usable with a computer system, comprising:
A media classification and retrieval system comprising:
A method in a computer system for reclassifying media content using a structured vocabulary stored in the computer system, the computer system having a plurality of stored media content units that have been each classified according to current terms of the structured vocabulary comprising:
A media classification system comprising:
A computer-readable memory medium containing instructions for controlling a computer processor to reclassify media content using a structured vocabulary stored in a data repository and using a plurality of media content units stored in a data repository that have been each classified according to a plurality of terms of the structured vocabulary, by:
A method in a first computer system for retrieving a media content unit from a second computer system having a plurality of media content units that have been classified according to terms of a structured vocabulary, wherein the terms are ordered such that the relationship of each term to each other term is inherent in the ordering, comprising:
A method in a computer system for rapidly locating a plurality of media content units that have been classified using a plurality of ordered terms in a structured vocabulary by associating each media content unit with at least one of the ordered terms, the terms ordered such that the relationship of each term to each other term is inherent in the ordering, the computer system having a reverse index that indexes the media content units by each associated term, comprising:
A media content retrieval system comprising:
A computer-readable memory medium containing instructions for controlling a computer processor of a computer system to efficiently retrieve media content that has been classified using a plurality of ordered terms in a structured vocabulary by associating each media content unit with at least one of the ordered terms, the computer system having a reverse index that indexes the media content units by each associated term, by:
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