Method and system for matching descriptive text for a multimedia content in a vendor's catalog with descriptive text for a multimedia content in media store's catalog

摘要

A media store server offers access to multimedia contents available from servers of one or more vendors. The media store server provides customers' digital information devices with catalog of content offered through the media store server. To provide a unified catalog for the store, the media store server retrieves a first descriptive text for a multimedia content in a catalog of vendor's server. The first descriptive text is converted into a second descriptive text representing the multimedia content, which is in a standardized format required for the media store server catalog. The second descriptive text for the multimedia content is compared with the descriptive texts of multimedia contents in the media store server catalog. The first descriptive text for the vendor's multimedia content is stored in the catalog of the media store server, if the second descriptive text for the multimedia content matches with any of the descriptive texts of multimedia contents in the catalog of the media store server. The stored first descriptive text provides a link to or association for access to the actual file on the vendor's server, i.e. so when users searches, the text comes up from the store server and selection enables user to access/download multimedia content from the vendor's server.