摘要:
A method of transmitting data to a receiver/decoder comprises: transmitting first type visual and/or audio data to the receiver/decoder; and transmitting second type reference data associated with the first type visual and/or audio data to the receiver/decoder to enable the receiver/decoder to generate further visual and/or audio data in dependence on the reference data; wherein the first type data and the second type data have a predetermined timing relationship.
摘要:
An application programming interface (API) allows applications (e.g., applets) at a digital television terminal to recover System Information (SI) from a digital transport stream without regard to the specific SI format. The API abstracts the relevant portions of the SI to provide it in a generic, usable format. The system is suitable for use, e.g., with SI formats including MPEG Program Specific Informatgion (PSI), DVB SI, ATSC Program and System Information Protocol (PSIP), Cable SI such as Digital Video Standard 234, and private SI. In an optional embodiment, asynchronous delivery of SI is provided for SI that is not immediately available in the terminal's memory. Additionally, the API can further abstract the SI so that it is independent of the specific transport stream format (e.g., MPEG-2). Moreover, incremental retrieval of SI data is provided by allowing an application to obtain a small subset of the SI that is available at the terminal, analyze it, and retrieve additional SI if required based on the analysis. The API includes a navigation package (110), a program guide package (120), a program selection/tuning package (130), a descriptor package (140), a utility package (150), a data package (160), and a pipeline package (170).
摘要:
A terminal for processing digital audio-visual or multimedia data including a data processing system and a memory, the data processing system storing user profile data (81, 82, 83) relating to the characteristics or preferences of multiple users (80) of the terminal. In a particularly preferred embodiment, the user profiles correspond to modes of operation of the terminal, the user profile data including priority data indicating the priority rights of each user to terminal resources.
摘要:
In a memory in a computer system, buffers are defined by a buffer management system. A set Buffers command defines a number (NP) of pools of buffers, and for each pool, a pool size (PS) of the number of buffers in the pool and the size (BS) of the buffers in that pool. The buffer management system is initialized to store the buffer sizes and to cumulate and store the pool sizes. To address a buffer, the buffer management system determines the address of the start of the buffer from the desired pool and buffer numbers, using the stored information. Also, for updating a paged flash memory, a page Pn of the flash memory (4024) is copied as an image page into RAM memory (4022), and the image page is updated and written back into a different page in the flash memory. A main record table (22) is held in a separate non-volatile memory (EEPROM 4026), identifying valid page pages in the flash memory, and is updated when a page in the flash memory has been updated. The main record table includes a CRC error detection section (25), and is copied into a back-up record table (23) immediately after it has been updated.
摘要:
A set top box or like device incorporating an untrusted software framework as a client of a secure operating system kernel. The software framework may comprise, for example, an Android framework supported by an underlying Linux operating system environment having a secure kernel. The software framework can be executed using a variety of process isolation techniques depending on performance and isolation requirements. A secure access client/server interface may also be provided to support interactions between the untrusted software framework (and applications utilizing the untrusted software framework) and secure or trusted portions of the device. The secure access interface can be configured to perform operations such as handle validation, heap pointer validation, non-pointer parameter validation, heap isolation, and resource release relating to terminated processes. In further embodiments, a software framework aggregator is used to support a plurality of additional software frameworks for use in the set top box.
摘要:
A system and method that facilitates the migration of one or more Virtual Machines (VMs) throughout a communications network, such as a cloud network, is disclosed. A management system monitors a current traffic matrix to determine if the network is congested. If the network is congested, the management system determines a minimum number of VMs that must be migrated to unused VM sites to ease the congestion and optimize the distribution of traffic in the network. Additionally, the management system also identifies which VMs should be migrated to which unused VM sites, and a sequence in which the migration should be performed to return the bandwidth distribution in the network to an acceptable level. In addition, the management system may determine which unused VM site or sites is best for the addition of one or more new VMs or groups of VMs.
摘要:
An image display apparatus and a method for operating the same are disclosed. The image display apparatus includes a display, a user input interface for receiving a control signal from a remote controller and processing the received control signal, a network interface for transmitting or receiving data over a network, a controller for controlling a pointer on the display according to the control signal received from the remote controller, and a platform for controlling data transmission or reception over the network according to the control signal received from the remote controller. The platform includes an Operating System (OS) kernel and an application layer that runs on the OS kernel, and the application layer including an installable or deletable application downloaded over the network.