193 results about "Metadata record" patented technology

Metadata management convergence platforms, systems, and methods to organize a community of users' data records. More specifically, methods managing metadata records related to content housed in unique, disparate or federated holdings in centralized or distributed environments. Also systems and methods for creating and managing metadata records using domain specific language, vocabulary and metadata schema accepted by a community of users of unique, disparate or federated databases in centralized or distributed environments. Such environments can include content repositories including but not limited to: vehicle fleet information systems; government document holdings; insurance and underwriting information holdings; academic library collections; and entertainment archives.

A system and method for generating extensible file system metadata. In one embodiment, the system may include a storage device configured to store data and a file system configured to manage access to the storage device and to store file system content. The file system may be further configured to detect a file system content access event, and in response to detecting the file system content access event, to generate a metadata record, where the metadata record is stored in an extensible, self-describing data format.

A media identifier registry for managing metadata records. The registry stores a unique logical identifier for each of the records as well as a base type corresponding to each of the logical identifiers. The base types are representative of the information contained in the respective metadata records for the corresponding logical identifiers. The registry further defines associations between the logical identifiers and base types. Improvements in identifying media content and related information according to the invention permit building a media data warehouse capable of aggregating data from many different sources, uniquely identify the same piece of content from different data providers, in different cultures, and in different physical forms to allow a consistent set of data to be stored and retrieved.

A system and method for querying file system content. In one embodiment, the system may include a storage device configured to store a plurality of files and a file system configured to manage access to the storage device. The file system may be further configured to perform in-band detection of a file system content access event and to responsively generate a given metadata record. The system may further include a query system configured to query the given metadata record.

A media identifier registry for managing metadata records. The registry stores a unique logical identifier for each of the records as well as a base type corresponding to each of the logical identifiers. The base types are representative of the information contained in the respective metadata records for the corresponding logical identifiers. The registry further defines associations between the logical identifiers and base types. Improvements in identifying media content and related information according to the invention permit building a media data warehouse capable of aggregating data from many different sources, uniquely identify the same piece of content from different data providers, in different cultures, and in different physical forms to allow a consistent set of data to be stored and retrieved.

A system and method of operating a filesystem for managing filesystem objects is disclosed. The filesystem objects are characterized by metadata parameters included in a global directory object arranged in a plurality of global directory object (GDO) pages. Responsive to receiving a request for creating a new filesystem object, a parent key is obtained. The parent key is indicative of an identifier of a direct parent directory requested for hosting the new filesystem object. A target page that corresponds to the parent key is located within the plurality of GDO pages. The target page further includes a direct parent directory metadata record associated with the direct parent key and includes metadata parameters related to the direct parent directory. An object key is created as corresponding to the same target page, thereby enabling accommodation of an object metadata record, related to the new filesystem object, on the target page.

Embodiments of systems, program products, and methods to manage content and distribution of media are provided. An embodiment of a system, for example, can include a communication network for transmitting media files, a content management server having a processor and memory coupled to the processor, a database accessible to the processor of the content management server and including media files associated with metadata records, a plurality of content management developer computers to provide content management developers with online access over the communication network to the media files and associated metadata records to thereby edit the metadata records, a plurality of user computers accessible to the communication network to provide the users with access to the media files over the communication network to thereby view and edit at least portions of respective metadata records. The system also includes content management program product stored in the memory of the content management server to manage content and distribution of media.

Disclosed are systems, methods and apparatuses for managing objects (files and directories) in network file systems according to policies. Each policy may have one or more rules, each of which ties a condition to an action. Each condition can be expressed in terms of metadata harvested across file systems and stored in a metadata repository. The actions are user-programmable. Users can apply and / or enforce a policy by manipulating the metadata stored in the metadata repository. For example, suppose a policy prohibits storing MP3 files in corporate storage, a user can specify a rule that ties the condition “no MP3 files in volumes A-Z” to an action “delete MP3 files from volumes A-Z.” A file management application may apply a filter to the metadata repository to produce metadata records having values that meet the specified condition and take the corresponding action on managed objects associated with those metadata records.

A method for implementing a software installation process so as to install, modify or uninstall a software program. The software installation process has a plurality of sequential steps, and the method comprises recording, for each sequential step commenced, step metadata identifying the sequential step so that the step metadata is associated with the software program. The step metadata is recorded in recoverable storage.

Described is a process for secure and privacy-preserving data retrieval operations in a network having a plurality of nodes. The process includes receiving a query at a querying node. The query is encrypted to generate an encrypted metadata query record. The encrypted metadata query record is transmitted to each queried node that is to be searched for data. A secure pattern matching protocol is used to search a database of metadata records to match a query answer to the metadata query record. The query answer is then encrypted. A query policy is verified for the querying node, with the encrypted answer being further encrypted based on the query policy. The further encrypted answer is transmitted to the querying node, which removes the outer layer of encryption, resulting in the original encrypted answer. The original encrypted answer is then decrypted to recover the query answer.

An optical disk contains main video data obtained by compressing pictures captured by a video camera at a relatively low compression ratio, low resolution proxy video data obtained by performing compression at a compression ratio higher than that for the main video data, metadata for use in editing. When a state in which the optical disk 2 is loaded into a drive of an optical disk apparatus is detected, the proxy video data and the metadata are read and recorded in a hard disk drive (HDD) without receiving a user's instruction. The proxy video data and metadata recorded in the HDD are used in simple editing before main editing in which the main video data is edited.

Disclosed are systems, methods and apparatuses for managing objects (files and directories) in network file systems according to policies. Each policy may have one or more rules, each of which ties a condition to an action. Each condition can be expressed in terms of metadata harvested across file systems and stored in a metadata repository. The actions are user-programmable. Users can apply and / or enforce a policy by manipulating the metadata stored in the metadata repository. For example, suppose a policy prohibits storing MP3 files in corporate storage, a user can specify a rule that ties the condition “no MP3 files in volumes A-Z” to an action “delete MP3 files from volumes A-Z.” A file management application may apply a filter to the metadata repository to produce metadata records having values that meet the specified condition and take the corresponding action on managed objects associated with those metadata records.

Embodiments of systems, program products, and methods to manage content and distribution of media are provided. An embodiment of a system, for example, can include a communication network for transmitting media files, a content management server having a processor and memory coupled to the processor, a database accessible to the processor of the content management server and including media files associated with metadata records, a plurality of content management developer computers to provide content management developers with online access over the communication network to the media files and associated metadata records to thereby edit the metadata records, a plurality of user computers accessible to the communication network to provide the users with access to the media files over the communication network to thereby view and edit at least portions of respective metadata records. The system also includes content management program product stored in the memory of the content management server to manage content and distribution of media.

Upon receiving a digital audio signal recorded in a .wav file, a beat extraction processing unit 12 extracts coarse beat position information from this digital audio signal and outputs the result as metadata recorded in an .mty file. In addition, a beat alignment processing unit 13 aligns beat information of the metadata recorded in the .mty file and outputs the result as metadata recorded in a .may file. Beats of a rhythm of music are extracted highly accurately while reproducing a music signal of a musical tune.

The invention relates to a method for the protection and recovery of continuous data stored in a time-stamp diary, which pertains to a computer data storage and backup method and aims at reducing the time of processing a write operation and a recovery operation and increasing processing parallelism. The method comprises the steps that: (1) a storage area is divided into a source data area and a continuous data protection area; a Hush mapping table is initialized; (2) a user command is judged, and the write operation is carried out sequentially; the recovery operation is carried out as the step (4); (3) the write operation is processed; by adopting a production line strategy, a copy operation and a new write operation are carried out in parallel; a source data record is inserted into the Hush mapping table; the step (2) is carried out; (4) the recovery operation is processed, and the source subdata block record needing copying is searched in the Hush mapping table; corresponding source subdata block record is written into the source data area by adopting the production line strategy; then the step (2) is carried out. The proposal of time-stamp diary storage is adopted in the invention; the production line strategy is adopted when the write operation and the recovery operation are processed; therefore, write operation processing time and target recovery time are shorter.

The invention provides a data storage system, which comprises a data acquisition device, a data analysis device, a metadata recording device and a data storage device, wherein the data acquisition device is suitable to acquire data which needs to be stored; the data analysis device is suitable to analyze the data which needs to be stored to obtain the characteristic of the data which needs to be stored and determine a storage position, wherein the data which needs to be stored is acquired by the data acquisition device; the metadata recording device is suitable to record the metadata information of the data which needs to be stored, wherein the metadata information comprises the characteristics and the storage position of the data which needs to be stored; and the data storage device is suitable for storing the data analyzed by the data analysis device into a corresponding storage device on the basis of the metadata information recorded by the metadata recording device. In addition, the invention also provides a data storage method and a data analysis system and method. Data storage can be flexibly and orderly realized especially under a situation that a great quantity of data needs to be stored.

A method for providing proximate dataset recommendations can begin with the creation of metadata records corresponding to datasets that represent scientific data by a scientific dataset search tool. The metadata records can conform to a standardized structural definition, and may be hierarchical. Values for the data elements of the metadata records can be contained within the datasets. Metadata records with a value that is proximate to a user-entered search parameter can be identified. A proximity score can be calculated for each identified metadata record. The proximity score can express a relevance of the corresponding dataset to the user-entered search parameters. The identified metadata records can be arranged in descending order by the calculated proximity rating, creating a list of proximate dataset results. The proximate dataset results can be presented within a user interface.

The invention discloses a flash memory storage system and a reading, writing and deleting method thereof. The flash memory storage system comprises a cache, a main control module, a cache metadata record sheet, a read mapping table and a write mapping table. The write mapping table is used for being stored in the cache and writing in the correspondence of a logical storage block and a physical storage block. The read mapping table is used for being stored in the cache and reading out the correspondence of the logical storage block and the physical storage block. The cache metadata record sheet is used for storing correspondences of metadata sheet addresses, the physical storage blocks and rear end flash memory addresses. By means of the flash memory storage system, the unnecessary write-in or read-out of a rear end flash memory can be reduced, the zero copy on a read-write data channel is achieved, the unnecessary intermediate copy process is omitted, and therefore the read-write efficiency is improved; the size of the read-write access of a front end application can be matched with the size of the rear end flash memory.

In one embodiment, file attributes of a desired file are sent along with the URL to the storing server and the attributes are used for subsequent retrieval of the file. Attributes, such as the text or title of the file, the language of the file, the creator of the file, etc, can all be added to the file in the form of metadata. Files that are recorded without metadata can have metadata attached thereto and can be retrieved using the metadata. The URL initially carries the metadata to the server and the server then both uses the metadata for indexing purposes and, if desired, adds the metadata to the file for storage with the file. In one embodiment, the files are media files used in an IVR system.

A system to catalog and search point-in-tine instances of a file system is disclosed. A catalog engine takes backups of file data generated by a storage system and catalogs the backups of file data into a searchable catalog of independent metadata records. The metadata is represented by baseline structure and delta files.

A database system stores data relating to media objects and includes a meta table, a supplementary meta table, a content table, a supplementary content table, each supplementary content data record being linked to a supplementary metadata record and to a content data record. An object type link table links together records in the meta table, and a content data link table links together records in the content data table. An information retrieval system analyzes the tables and provides, for a selected instance of an object, information about that object's attributes and relationships with other objects in a hierarchical form.

The present disclosure relates to automatically generating a dynamic set of metadata from digitized hardcopy media. The technique includes scanning the image side and non-image side of a plurality of hardcopy media. A dynamic digital metadata record of each of the plurality of hardcopy media is created and used for manipulating each of the plurality of hardcopy media.

A method is disclosed for analyzing with a computer (1) the motion of an athlete (3), of a team or a patient during an activity, said method comprising the steps of defining a number of unevenly time-spaced key positions in said motion, said key positions being of particular interest for analyzing the correct execution of said motion by said athlete (3) or team. A video sequence (11) of said motion is acquired with a camera (2) and still pictures (12) are extracted from said video sequence (11). Templates can trigger the automatic extraction of still pictures (12). For extraction purposes, a metadata recorded with a sensor (5) at the same time as the video sequence (11) can be used. Said still pictures (12) correspond to said previously defined key positions. Thereafter said extracted still pictures (12) are displayed simultaneously on a same display (10).

The invention discloses a processing method for multiple-source and multi-temporal satellite image tile data. According to the processing method, a mass tile data organization structure with the time-space characteristic and the multi-source heterogeneous characteristic can be constructed, and metadata of multi-source heterogeneous satellite data tiles can be processed. The processing method comprises the steps of: (1) inputting a plurality of pieces of satellite image data, wherein each satellite image data comprises pixel data and metadata; (2) receiving a data warehousing request; (3) storing each metadata based on an image metadata table of BeyonDB, wherein each row of record description of the image metadata table comes from the metadata of the tile data of the same satellite image, and a plurality of pieces of tile data correspond to the same satellite metadata record; and (4) processing the pixel data by adopting a transverse blocking and longitudinal layering tile structure, and storing the mass tile data after processing the mass tile data by adopting a multiple-source and multi-temporal pyramid tile data file tree structure. The invention also provides a processing system, as well as a search method and a search system based on the processing system.

Disclosed is a mobile electronic device platform for automated visual product recognition. As part of the platform, a mobile electronic device comprising a processing element and computer-readable media performs automated product-recognition processes based on input image frames received from a photographic element. The non-transitory computer-readable media may include computer-readable instructions stored thereon, the instructions instructing the processing element of the mobile electronic device to complete the following data processing steps without sending or receiving the processed data over an active data connection to any other computing device: (1) pass an input image frame of the input image frames depicting a product through a convolutional neural network stored on the computer-readable media; (2) generate a product classification for the product based at least in part on passage of the image frame through the convolutional neural network; and (3) record product metadata corresponding to the product to a record of the automated product-recognition process. The convolutional neural network may be trained through adjustment of model parameters according to the output of multiple classification arms sharing upstream convolutional features and utilize network compression and / or quantization techniques described herein, resulting in significant performance gains.

The invention provides a snap storage method in a file system. The file system comprises a directory tree with a snap mark, a snap counting file corresponding to the directory tree, and snap files which correspond to each snap timestamp of the directory tree; the snap storage method comprises the steps as follows: (1) recording indexes of each snap file arranged according to the order of snap timestamp with the snap counting file after creating snaps; (2) maintaining each snap file to enable the initiative effective time recorded in each snap file to be less than or equal to the timestamp of the snap file, and to be more than all metadata of last snap timestamp, and ordering the metadata recorded in same snap file according to the terminative effective time of the snap file. The invention further provides a snap access method in corresponding file system. Compared with traditional increment snap technology, the metadata snap storage and access method of the invention obviously reduces snap access expenditure and improves snap access efficiency under a premise of remaining the advantage that the expenditure of the storage space is relatively small.

The present disclosure relates to automatically generating a dynamic set of metadata from digitized hardcopy media. The technique includes scanning the image side and non-image side of a plurality of hardcopy media. A dynamic digital metadata record of each of the plurality of hardcopy media is created and used for manipulating each of the plurality of hardcopy media.

A system to collect performance data and store it in a special data structure which records the metadata in the structure itself. The performance data for each day is recorded in time-series, converted into Unicode, and stored in a single directory. The performance metric data is compressed prior to transmission to a server over any data path. The data structure at the server where analysis is done has a subdirectory for every resource type. Each subdirectory contains text files each of which stores performance metric data values for a group of attributes with one section per attribute. The performance metric data values are recorded as a comma delimited list. Analysis of the performance metric data is done using regular expressions.