| US 6,735,583 C1 (6124th) | ||
| METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CLASSIFYING AND LOCATING MEDIA CONTENT | ||
| Anna Bjarnestam, Seattle, Wash.; Karina Holm, London, United Kingdom; Alan Capel, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom; William G. Kuhn, Seattle, Wash., and Jason Staczek, Seattle, Wash., assignors to Getty Images Limited, London, United Kingdom | ||
| Reexamination Request No. 90/007,488, Mar. 29, 2005. | ||
| Reexamination Certificate for Patent 6,735,583, issued May 11, 2004, Appl. No. 705,513, Nov. 1, 2000. | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 17/30 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 707—2 |
| AS A RESULT OF REEXAMINATION, IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT: |
| The patentability of claims 1-79 and 89-114 is confirmed. |
| Claims 80 and 81 are determined to be patentable as amended. |
| Claims 82-88, dependent on an amended claim, are determined to be patentable. |
| New claims 115-131 are added and determined to be patentable. |
| 1. 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: for each media content unit,
determining a term within the strutured vocabulary that represents a characteristic of the media content unit; and
associating an identifier of the determined term with the media content unit so that the media content unit is characterized by the determined term;
receiving a request to locate a media content unit based upon a search term; and
using the structured vocabulary to determine a collection of media content units that are characterized by the search term.
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