US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property II, Columbia University in the City of New York on June 28 for "Multimedia Integration Description Scheme, Method and System for Mpeg-7" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- United States Patent no. 7,970,822, issued on June 28, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property II L.

P. (Atlanta) and Columbia University in the City of New York (New York).

"Multimedia Integration Description Scheme, Method and System for Mpeg-7" was invented by Ana Belen Benitez (New York), Shih-Fu Chang (New York), Qian Huang (Ocean, N.

J.), Seungyup Paek (New York) and Atul Puri (Riverdale, N.

Y.).

According to the abstract released by the U.

S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a system and method for integrating multimedia descriptions in a way that allows humans, software components or devices to easily identify, represent, manage, retrieve, and categorize the multimedia content. In this manner, a user who may be interested in locating a specific piece of multimedia content from a database, Internet, or broadcast media, for example, may search for and find the multimedia content. In this regard, the invention provides a system and method that receives multimedia content and separates the multimedia content into separate components which are assigned to multimedia categories, such as image, video, audio, synthetic and text. Within each of the multimedia categories, the multimedia content is classified and descriptions of the multimedia content are generated. The descriptions are then formatted, integrated, using a multimedia integration description scheme, and the multimedia integration description is generated for the multimedia content. The multimedia description is then stored into a database. As a result, a user may query a search engine which then retrieves the multimedia content from the database whose integration description matches the query criteria specified by the user. The search engine can then provide the user a useful search result based on the multimedia integration description."

The patent was filed on Feb. 17, 2009, under Application No. 12/372,052.

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