Metadata/content re-association system and method

A method for processing digital content comprising:

• creating a unique identifier derived from at least a portion of digital content in a content file;
• associating metadata descriptive of the digital content with the digital content via the unique identifier;
• storing data representative of the association;
• receiving the at least the portion of the digital content dissociated from the metadata;
• re-creating the identifier based upon the received at least the portion of the digital content;
• comparing the re-created identifier with the unique identifier for re-association of the metadata with the digital content;
• and
• creating or re-creating the association based upon the comparison and the data representative of the association.

A method for processing digital content comprising:

• receiving at least a portion of digital content dissociated from metadata descriptive of the digital content;
• re-creating an identifier based upon the received at least the portion of the digital content;
• comparing the re-created identifier with a unique identifier stored in a database that associates the digital content with the metadata;
• and
• creating or re-creating an association between the received at least the portion of the digital content and the metadata based upon the comparison.

A system for processing digital content comprising:

• a database comprising a tangible non-transitory computer readable medium, configured to store data representative of an association between digital content in a content file and metadata based upon a unique identifier of the digital content derived from at least a portion of the digital content;
• a receiving component comprising a processor configured to receive the digital content dissociated from the metadata;
• an identifier re-creation component comprising a processor configured to re-create the identifier based upon the received digital content;
• and
• a comparison component comprising a processor configured to compare the re-created identifier with the unique identifier for re-association of the metadata with the digital content.

At least one machine readable medium comprising executable code for:

• creating a unique identifier derived from at least a portion of digital content in a content file;
• associating metadata descriptive of the digital content with the digital content via the unique identifier;
• storing data representative of the association;
• receiving the at least the portion of the digital content dissociated from the metadata;
• re-creating the identifier based upon the received at least the portion of the digital content;
• comparing the re-created identifier with the unique identifier for re-association of the metadata with the received at least the portion of the digital content;
• and
• creating or re-creating the association based upon the comparison and the data representative of the association.

At least one machine readable medium comprising executable code for:

• receiving at least a portion of digital content dissociated from metadata descriptive of the digital content;
• re-creating an identifier based upon the received at least the portion of digital content;
• comparing the re-created identifier with a unique identifier stored in a database that associates the at least the portion of digital content with the metadata;
• and
• creating or re-creating an association between the received at least the portion of digital content and the metadata based upon the comparison.