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This patent is generally related to tagging of files to improve searching, sorting and retrieving stored files. Disclosed is a technique to tag files and assign priorities to tags by associating multiple tags to multiple files. The system assigns an adjustable importance level to each tag of each file and generate a file score based on the adjustable importance levels of the tag. The tagging helps in improved searching, sorting and retrieving the files. The technology may be implemented in media management, file storage and sorting, cloud storage applications, media or file tagging services, etc.

This lot is generally related to a digital media management system.  Disclosed is a remote application to provide media personalization for users using an electronic device.  Disclosed is a media personalization technique to provide personalized video viewing suggestions consisting of an electronic device to receive a request for activation of a user profile and assign an active operation status for user devices and passive status for the rest of the user devices based on policy information.  Also disclosed are techniques to apply the profile associated with the user device having an active status for the media personalization.  Further disclosed are techniques to monitor media consumption pattern of each user to differentiate between the consumption patterns of different users and perform analytics at user profile level.  The technology may be implemented in mobile phones, personal computers, laptops, set top boxes (STBs), digital video recorders (DVRs), media gateway boxes, etc.

This lot is generally related to an intelligent multimedia streaming system.  Disclosed are techniques to automatically capture an event of interest to create a customized digital stream.  Disclosed system has multiple cameras for capturing video images of an event from various angles, multiple modules consisting of a rectification module for combining the video images to form a wide-angle view and a motion analysis module configured for tracking salient blobs which are not part of a background of the wide-angle view.  Also disclosed is an activity analysis module for extracting temporal and spatial patterns from the wide-angle view and a shape and appearance module for selecting objects in the wide-angle view.  The shape and appearance module selects objects based on descriptors that are scale and rotational invariant and a region of interest selector for selecting a viewpoint from the wide-angle view based on output from the motion analysis module for display.  The system has an audio recording device for capturing audio from the event and synchronizes the video images and audio to form a multimedia stream.  The technology may be implemented in mobile devices, TV cameras, event-capturing systems, etc.