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Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface

Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata. In one exemplary method, metadata from files created by several different software applications are captured, and the captured metadata is searched. The type of information in metadata for one type of file differs from the type of information in metadata for another type of file. Other methods are described and data processing systems and machine readable media are also described.

Methods And Systems For Managing Data

Music is blanket transmitted (for example, via satellite downlink transmission) to each customer's computer-based user station. Customers preselect from a list of available music in advance using an interactive screen selector, and pay only for music that they choose to have recorded for unlimited playback, for example, by a “CD burner”. An antipiracy “ID tag” is woven into the recorded music so that any illegal copies therefrom may be traced to the purchase transaction. Music is transmitted on a fixed schedule or through an active scheduling process that monitors music requests from all or a subset of satellite receivers and adjust scheduling according to demand for various CD's. Receivers store selections that are likely to be preferred by a specific customer. In those instances where weather conditions, motion atmospheric layers or dish obstructions result in data loss, the system downloads the next transmission of the requested CD and uses both transmissions to produce a “good copy”. In conjunction with the blanket transmission of more popular music, an automated CD manufacturing facility may be provided to manufacture CD's that are not frequently requested and distribute them by ground transportation.

Music distribution systems

A method for delivering content to a plurality of mobile devices communicatively coupled to each other via BLUETOOTH technology and participating in a communication network is provided. The content includes a plurality of data types and is delivered from a service provider to at least one of the mobile devices depending on the characteristics of the data and the characteristics of the device. The method includes the steps of associating a user with a global profile having the characteristics of the devices and user attributes, storing the global profile on the service provider; dynamically selecting an optimal communication protocol for transport of the content based on the data type and selecting at least one of the mobile devices being best suited to receive the data type. Thus, the content is routed to one of the devices in accordance with the global profile, data characteristics and prevailing network conditions.

Dynamic protocol selection and routing of content to mobile devices

A system and method for filtering and organizing items from computer memories based on common elements. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, filters are provided for manipulating the items. The filters are essentially tools for narrowing down a set of items. In one embodiment, the filters are dynamically generated based on the properties of the separate items. The system utilizes virtual folders. The virtual folders expose regular files and folders to users in different views based on their metadata instead of the actual physical underlying file system structure on the disk. In accordance with another aspect of the invention, quick links are provided. In one embodiment, quick links are a set of predefined links (e.g., located on the left side of the display) that can be clicked on to generate useful views of the sets of items. In accordance with another aspect of the invention, libraries are provided. Libraries consist of large groups of usable types of items that can be associated together.

System and method for filtering and organizing items based on common elements

A system for managing multimedia objects such as text, images, sound, and video clips. The system provides improved organization of multimedia objects, through use of albums organized into collections of albums. In addition, improved printout of multimedia objects through user-activateable selection of particular fields from a multimedia database to accompany printouts of multimedia objects. A user interface is defined for allowing a user to obtain a thumbnail view of images in multimedia objects, simply by sliding a mouse cursor over database entry pointing of the image. In addition, a unique architecture of a system for managing multimedia objects is described.

System for managing multimedia objects

A system for managing files stored on a digital camera includes detection of the digital camera, automatic reception of thumbnail image files stored in the camera, and storage of the received thumbnail image files in a memory. The system also includes a user interface for a windowing application for viewing system objects which includes a first area for displaying a hierarchical tree of system objects, a second area for displaying a thumbnail image corresponding to a system object selected in the first area, a third area adjacent to the second area for displaying a second icon indicating that a sound file is associated with the displayed thumbnail image, and a fourth area which surrounds the second area and the third area, wherein the fourth area may be selected and dragged to an icon representing a storage device in order to copy the displayed thumbnail image, a full-resolution image file associated with the displayed thumbnail image, and any associated sound files to the storage device. The second area may be selected and dragged to the icon representing the storage device in order to copy the full-resolution image file to the storage device, and the sound icon may be selected and dragged to the icon representing the storage device in order to copy any sound files associated with the displayed thumbnail image to the storage device.

System to manage digital camera images

A system for scanning a document and sending a corresponding image file to a remote recipient using a software autosend utility that accesses predefined profiles of potential recipients. The predefined profiles including transport protocols and image scanning characteristics for such recipients. According to the invention, the autosend utility is launched, and the autosend utility receives user input identifying the remote recipient. Based on the profile corresponding to the identity of the remote recipient, image scanning characteristics and a transport protocol for the resulting image data are is both determined. The document is scanned in accordance with the determined image scanning characteristics, and a temporary image file containing image data for the scanned document is stored. The temporary image file is sent to the remote recipient using the determined transport protocol.

Push technology for network scanner

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To manage and operate picture data recorded in a camera at high speed by detecting the camera connected to a computer system, receiving automatically stored low resolution picture data and storing the data in a memory. SOLUTION: The camera 14 is provided with a lens 30 to condense light from an object to be pointed by the lens 30, a CCD 31 to convert the received light into an analog signal, an AD converter 32 to convert the analog signal into a digital signal and a frame memory 34 to store one photograph frame. Components 30 to 34 are controlled by a microprocessor 35 and the photograph frame is stored in a camera memory 36 from the frame memory 34 by the microprocessor 35. The data stored in the camera memory 36 can be loaded down via an I/O port 37 by an external device. A fetched photograph is stored as picture data in a JPEG form with the maximum resolution and in a TIFF form with low resolution by the microprocessor 35.

Management system of digital camera picture

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system that uses a scanning characteristics corresponding to a recipient so as to scan a document and uses a file transfer protocol to automatically transmit an image file SOLUTION: A transfer protocol and an image scanning characteristics for each destination are set in advance, and a document is read on the basis of the image scanning characteristics corresponding to a designated destination (steps S1105, S1106) to generate an image file and the image file is transmitted on the basis of the transfer protocol corresponding to the designated destination (steps S1108, S1109)

Andrew Hunter Tomat

Papers

System for managing multimedia objects

System to manage digital camera images

Push technology for network scanner

Management system of digital camera picture

Method for transmission of image file and transmitter for image file