Physical Visual ID as Means to Tie Disparate Media Collections

摘要

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for automatically associating collections of media files are provided. A first tying-identifier is determined from at least one media file in a first media collection. A second tying-identifier is determined from at least one media file in a second media collection. The first tying-identifier is then compared to the second tying-identifier. The first media collection and the second media collection are then associated together based on the similarity between the first tying-identifier and the second tying-identifier.

主权项

1. A computer system for associating collections of media files, comprising:
a tying-identification module configured to:
generate a unique tying-identifier;provide the unique tying-identifier to one or more first users;determine whether the unique tying identifier is present in a first media collection, wherein the first media collection includes a plurality of first media files; anddetermine an additional tying identifier in a second media collection, wherein the additional tying identifier is different from the unique tying identifier, and wherein the second media collection includes a plurality of second media files and the additional tying identifier is based on metadata associated with at least one second media file of the plurality of second media files; a collection-tying module configured to associate the first media collection for which the unique tying-identifier is present with the second media collection for which the additional tying identifier different than the unique tying identifier is determined when the unique tying-identifier is determined to be present in the first media collection and the additional tying identifier from the second media collection meets a similarity threshold with the unique tying-identifier from the first media collection; at least one memory unit configured to store at least one of the tying-identification module or the collection-tying module; and at least one computer processor configured to execute at least one of the tying-identification module or the collection-tying module.