Interface and method for managing multimedia content and related information
OwnerGreg Hecht, Brian Lanierinventors
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Abstract
A system is disclosed comprising: a plurality of disparate databases containing data related to multimedia content and/or Internet content; a plurality of applications to access and process data from the databases; and a node layer comprising a first type of nodes adapted to retrieve data from a first type of database and a second type of nodes to retrieve data from a second type of database, wherein both the first type of nodes and the second type of nodes provide the data to the applications in a consistent data format.
Claims26
An interface for linking one or more applications to a plurality of databases comprising:
- a plurality of nodes to retrieve data from said one or more databases and to provide said data to said one or more applications in a consistent manner;
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- one or more services to perform predefined actions associated with said nodes,
- wherein each node may be associated with several different services and each service may be associated with several different nodes.
A data interface layer within a multimedia system for providing data from a plurality of different multimedia databases to one or more applications comprising:
- a first data interface object adapted to retrieve a first set of data from a first one of said databases and provide said data to said applications;
- a second data interface object adapted to retrieve a second set of data from a second one of said databases and provide said data to said applications,
- wherein said data is provided to said applications from both said first data interface object and said second data interface object in a consistent manner.
A system comprising:
- a plurality of disparate databases containing data related to multimedia content and/or Internet content;
- a plurality of applications to access and process data from said databases;
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- a node layer comprising a plurality of nodes including a first type of node adapted to retrieve data from a first type of database and a second type of node adapted to retrieve data from a second type of database, wherein both said first type of node and said second type of node provide said data to said applications in a consistent data format.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.