Digital Residential Entertainment System
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsJohn Alson Hicks, III, Randy Zimler
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Abstract
A digital residential entertainment system uses a data switch with dedicated ports. Each one of the dedicated ports may receive a different input or route a different output. As different content items are stored within the digital residential entertainment system, each one of the different content items is associated to a different row in a data table. Each different row thus stores data fields that differentiate one content item from another content item.
Claims20
A system, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- memory storing instructions that when executed cause the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:
- storing a plurality of content items in the memory;
- storing a single data record that corresponds to one content item in the plurality of content items, the single data record being one row in a data table, the data table having a different row for each other content item in the plurality of content items, the row having a plurality of data fields, the plurality of data fields comprising information that differentiates the one content item from the each other content item in the plurality of content items.
A method, comprising:
- storing, in memory, a plurality of content items;
- associating, by a processor, a single data record to one content item in the plurality of content items, the single data record being one row in a data table, the data table having a different row for each other content item in the plurality of content items;
- and
- storing information associated with the one content item in a plurality of data fields within the one row, the information differentiating the one content item from the each other content item in the plurality of content items.
A memory storing code which when executed causes a processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:
- storing a plurality of content items in the memory;
- storing a single data record that corresponds to one content item in the plurality of content items, the single data record being one row in a data table, the data table having a different row for each other content item in the plurality of content items, the row having a plurality of data fields, the plurality of data fields comprising information that differentiates the one content item from the each other content item in the plurality of content items.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.