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US 2014/0157324 A1Published application
Content Identification and Management
AssigneeComcast Cable Communications, LLC
InventorsWeidong Mao, Mark Swan, Sree Kotay, Mark Vickers
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Abstract
Methods and systems are presented for managing allocation of names in a limited namespace for a pool of content objects or items. For each content object in the pool, one or more records are maintained that include mappings of different names from different name spaces.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- one or more memories storing machine executable instructions, that when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to:
- create an association between a first content object and a plurality of names from a plurality of different namespaces, respectively;
- receive a query including metadata associated with the first content object;
- and
- transmit a response including one of the plurality of names in response to the query.
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A method comprising:
- storing in a memory an association between a first content object and a plurality of names from a plurality of different namespaces, respectively, each namespace in the plurality of different namespaces associated with a respective portion of a plurality of different portions of a data network;
- receiving a query comprising metadata associated with the first content object;
- and
- preparing a response including one of the plurality of names in response to the query.
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A non-transitory computer readable memory storing machine executable instructions, that when executed by one or more processors, cause a device to:
- create an association between a first content object and a plurality of names from a plurality of different namespaces, respectively;
- receive a query including metadata associated with the first content object;
- and
- transmit a response including one of the plurality of names in response to the query.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.