Parsed program guide data
OwnerAmod Dattatray Deshpande, Paul van Wingerden +1inventors
InventorsAmod Dattatray Deshpande, Paul van Wingerden, Alan Edward Shield
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Abstract
A program guide data system is described that parses program guide data into data sections such that program guide data corresponding to a program is distributed into one or more of the data sections. A program guide data file is generated that includes the data sections and the program guide data file is communicated to client devices. In an implementation, the data sections are similarly formatted to include various element data types that contain the program guide data and/or are indexes to additional data sections that contain the program guide data.
Claims51
A method, comprising:
- receiving program guide data;
- parsing the program guide data into data sections such that the program guide data corresponding to a program is distributed into one or more of the data sections;
- generating a data file that includes the data sections.
A method, comprising:
- receiving a program guide data file that includes data sections having parsed program guide data;
- generating a program guide from program guide data corresponding to a program distributed within one or more of the data sections;
- and
- communicating the program guide for display.
A program guide data system, comprising:
- a memory device configured to maintain program guide data received from a program guide data provider;
- a program guide format application configured to:
- parse the program guide data into data sections such that the program guide data corresponding to a program is distributed into one or more of the data sections;
- and
- generate a data file that includes the data sections.
A television-based system, comprising:
- means for parsing program guide data into data sections such that the program guide data corresponding to a program is distributed into one or more of the data sections;
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- means for correlating the program guide data corresponding to the program in each of the one or more data sections.
One or more computer-readable media comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed, direct a program guide data system to:
- parse program guide data into data sections such that program guide data corresponding to a program is distributed into one or more of the data sections;
- and
- generate a data file that includes the data sections.
One or more computer-readable media having stored thereon a data structure, comprising:
- a first data section that contains string data corresponding to a program;
- a second data section that identifies the program and contains an index to the string data in the first data section;
- a third data section that contains a tuner channel number;
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- a fourth data section that contains a program index to the program in the second data section and a channel index to the tuner channel number in the third data section to cross-reference the program and the tuner channel number.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.