公开(公告)号：US20070143792A1

公开(公告)日：2007-06-21

申请号：US11275807

申请日：2006-01-30

申请人： Colin Acton ,  Frederic Azera ,  Constantin Stanciu ,  Samuel Clement ,  Stephen Husak ,  Alan Shield ,  Andrew Simms

发明人： Colin Acton ,  Frederic Azera ,  Constantin Stanciu ,  Samuel Clement ,  Stephen Husak ,  Alan Shield ,  Andrew Simms

IPC分类号： H04N5/445 ,  G06F3/00 ,  G06F13/00

CPC分类号： G06F16/289

摘要： An extensible mechanism for storage and interchange of objects is described herein. According to first aspect of the disclosure, objects having respective class definitions are received. The objects are represented in an interchange format by mapping the class definitions of the objects to corresponding fields defined within the interchange format. According to a second aspect of the disclosure, the objects are loaded into a persistent store by mapping the class definitions of the objects to corresponding fields of the store. According to at least a third aspect of the disclosure, a data structure for a unique identifier element is described, along with processes using the unique identifier element to determine whether to update an existing object in the store, or to create a new object in the store.

摘要翻译： 这里描述了用于存储和交换对象的可扩展机构。 根据本公开的第一方面，接收具有各自的类定义的对象。 通过将对象的类定义映射到交换格式中定义的相应字段，以交换格式表示对象。 根据本公开的第二方面，通过将对象的类定义映射到商店的相应字段来将对象加载到持久存储器中。 根据本公开的至少第三方面，描述用于唯一标识符元素的数据结构以及使用唯一标识符元素的过程来确定是否更新存储中的现有对象，或者在 商店。

公开(公告)号：US20060037060A1

公开(公告)日：2006-02-16

申请号：US10939618

申请日：2004-09-13

申请人： Andrew Simms ,  Stephen Husak ,  Patricia Martin

发明人： Andrew Simms ,  Stephen Husak ,  Patricia Martin

IPC分类号： H04N7/173

CPC分类号： H04N21/2665 ,  H04N7/163 ,  H04N21/25841 ,  H04N21/25883 ,  H04N21/26283 ,  H04N21/40 ,  H04N21/84

摘要： Providing a program guide for digital and analog broadcast television channels specific to a geographic region. A computing device sends a program guide request including a geographic identifier to another computing device. In response, the other computing device filters a master program guide as a function of the geographic identifier to create the requested program guide. The created program guide includes a call sign, physical channel, major channel, and content listing for each of the digital broadcast television channels. In one embodiment, the digital broadcast television channels conform the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) standard.

摘要翻译： 为特定于地理区域的数字和模拟广播电视频道提供节目指南。 计算设备向另一计算设备发送包括地理标识符的节目指南请求。 作为响应，其他计算设备根据地理标识符过滤主节目指南以创建所请求的节目指南。 创建的节目指南包括每个数字广播电视频道的呼号，物理频道，主频道和内容列表。 在一个实施例中，数字广播电视频道符合高级电视系统委员会（ATSC）标准。

公开(公告)号：US20060037046A1

公开(公告)日：2006-02-16

申请号：US10917890

申请日：2004-08-13

申请人： Andrew Simms ,  Stephen Husak ,  Patricia Martin

发明人： Andrew Simms ,  Stephen Husak ,  Patricia Martin

IPC分类号： H04N5/445 ,  G06F13/00 ,  G06F3/00

CPC分类号： H04N21/4821 ,  H04N5/4401 ,  H04N5/44543 ,  H04N5/46 ,  H04N7/17318 ,  H04N21/235 ,  H04N21/2353 ,  H04N21/435 ,  H04N21/482

摘要： Providing content listings for digital television broadcasts. A computing device matches digital broadcast television channel data (e.g., call signs or broadcast frequencies) with analog broadcast television channel data to create a list of mapped channels. The computing device creates a program guide for the digital broadcast television channels as a function of the matched channel data by associating program listings for the analog channels with the digital channels. The created program guide covering both digital and analog television channels is stored in a database for subsequent processing responsive, for example, to a user request. In one embodiment, the digital broadcast television channels conform the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) standard.

摘要翻译： 提供数字电视广播的内容列表。 计算设备将数字广播电视频道数据（例如，呼叫标志或广播频率）与模拟广播电视频道数据相匹配，以创建映射频道的列表。 计算设备通过将模拟频道的节目列表与数字频道相关联来创建作为匹配的频道数据的功能的数字广播电视频道的节目指南。 覆盖数字和模拟电视频道的创建的节目指南被存储在用于响应于例如用户请求的后续处理的数据库中。 在一个实施例中，数字广播电视频道符合高级电视系统委员会（ATSC）标准。

公开(公告)号：US20110161174A1

公开(公告)日：2011-06-30

申请号：US12445055

申请日：2007-10-11

申请人： Andrew Simms ,  John Vernon Polglase

发明人： Andrew Simms ,  John Vernon Polglase

IPC分类号： G06Q30/00 ,  G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F16/41 ,  G06F16/435 ,  G06F16/4387 ,  G06F16/48 ,  G06Q30/0251 ,  G06Q30/0261 ,  G06Q30/0263 ,  G06Q30/0273

摘要： A system for locating, segmenting, annotating and retrieving multimedia files, provides a database of metadata (68) relating to multimedia files (70), a database manager (64), and a database client (66) for accessing the data contained within the database. The database client (66), together with the metadata database (68) and database manager (64) provide a variety of different functionalities, namely a deep linking functionality, a segmentation functionality, a metadata annotation functionality, a retrieval functionality, and an access functionality. The user, through database client (68) annotates the multimedia file or segment of multimedia file with metadata which is saved in the database (68). When the user desires to locate a multimedia file, the metadata is searched or browsed to locate the database entry associated with the multimedia file in question. The system further provides the ability for the user to load, open and start the playing of a multimedia file from a point intermediate to its start and end point, and without the user having to experience the portion between the start point and the intermediate point, break down larger files into shorter segments or individual frames (or still images) or regions within frames (or still images) without creating additional copies of the selected segments of the multimedia files of interest, thereby avoiding copyright issues from arising.

摘要翻译： 用于定位，分割，注释和检索多媒体文件的系统提供与多媒体文件（70），数据库管理器（64）和数据库客户端（66）相关的元数据（68）的数据库，用于访问包含在 数据库。 数据库客户端（66）与元数据数据库（68）和数据库管理器（64）一起提供了各种不同的功能，即深度链接功能，分段功能，元数据注释功能，检索功能和访问 功能。 用户通过数据库客户端（68）利用保存在数据库（68）中的元数据来对多媒体文件或多媒体文件段进行注释。 当用户期望定位多媒体文件时，搜索或浏览元数据以定位与所讨论的多媒体文件相关联的数据库条目。 该系统进一步提供用户能够从中间到其起点和终点的点加载，打开和开始多媒体文件的播放，并且不需要经历起点和中间点之间的部分， 将更大的文件分解成更短的段或单个帧（或静止图像）或帧（或静止图像）中的区域，而不创建所感兴趣的多媒体文件的所选段的附加副本，从而避免版权问题的产生。