Graphical user interface for a transport multiplexer
First Claim
1. A graphical user interface for use in a transport multiplexer having plural input ports and plural output ports wherein dynamic content streams are received at the input ports and routed to the output ports, the content streams comprising plural components and having attributes that include bit rate, type and name, the graphical user interface comprising:
- a tree view screen for displaying graphical objects representing the input ports and the output ports and for displaying input and output trees with plural branches indicating the hierarchical structure of respective input and output content streams, the tree view screen indicating the content streams received at and routing through the transport multiplexer and displaying, in real-time, changes in the content streams received at the transport multiplexer.
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Abstract
A feature-rich transport multiplexer and a number of associated methods, systems, subsystems, software features, graphical user interfaces and control systems are disclosed. The disclosure includes GUI'"'"'s that enable operators to easily monitor and manipulate content streams flowing through a transport multiplexer in real-time. The disclosed interfaces include screens that supply operators with identity, structure, configuration, bandwidth utilization and/or status information for system hardware and software. The disclosed features also provide computer assisted routing configuration for present and future routing events through simple manipulation, such as drag and drop operations, of graphical objects. Routing control is further simplified by permitting operators to configure routing control of individual content stream components as well as groups of such components simultaneously. Further flexibility is permitted by predetermination of future routing events, thereby enabling the automatic execution of configuration changes at a future time. Various types of content, such as video, audio, IP data can be manipulated to achieve various results such as one or more multiplexed MPEG data streams.
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18 Claims
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1. A graphical user interface for use in a transport multiplexer having plural input ports and plural output ports wherein dynamic content streams are received at the input ports and routed to the output ports, the content streams comprising plural components and having attributes that include bit rate, type and name, the graphical user interface comprising:
a tree view screen for displaying graphical objects representing the input ports and the output ports and for displaying input and output trees with plural branches indicating the hierarchical structure of respective input and output content streams, the tree view screen indicating the content streams received at and routing through the transport multiplexer and displaying, in real-time, changes in the content streams received at the transport multiplexer. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A graphical user interface for use in a transport multiplexer with a chassis having plural hardware and software components to route input content streams received by input ports to predetermined output ports, the graphical user interface comprising:
a chassis view screen for displaying graphical objects representing the physical structure of the hardware components installed in the chassis of the transport multiplexer, the graphical objects indicating the type of input and output ports provided by the hardware components. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10)
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11. A method of using a graphical user interface to configure routing control of a content stream through a transport multiplexer, the router having plural input ports and plural output ports, the method comprising:
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displaying icons representing the input ports;
displaying icons representing the output ports;
displaying an icon representing a input content stream, the stream being received by one of the input ports and the input stream icon being displayed in proximity to the input port icon;
dragging the input stream icon into proximity to an output port icon;
dropping the input content stream icon in proximity with the output port icon; and
responsive to the step of dropping, displaying an icon representing an output stream exiting the output port, the icon being displayed substantially where the input stream was dropped. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 17)
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16. A graphical user interface for use in a transport multiplexer having plural input ports and plural output ports wherein content streams are received at the input ports and routed to the output ports, the content streams comprising a hierarchy of plural components and having attributes that include bit rate, type and name, the graphical user interface comprising:
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a tree view screen for displaying icons representing the input ports and the output ports and input and output trees with plural branches indicating the hierarchical structure of the input and output content streams;
the graphical user interface permitting configuration of routing controls by dragging content stream components from the input tree and dropping the content stream components onto the output tree whereby the content stream is automatically routed through the transport multiplexer to a desired output.
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18. A graphical user interface for use in a transport multiplexer having plural input ports and plural output ports wherein dynamic content streams are received at the input ports and routed to the output ports in accordance with routing control data, the graphical user interface comprising:
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plural tree view screens for displaying icons representing the input ports and the output ports, the tree view screens also displaying input and output trees with plural branches indicating the hierarchical structure of respective input and output content streams, each of the tree view screens showing content stream routing for a unique time segment;
a time bar comprising plural time segments defined between pairs of segment start and stop times; and
the graphical user interface permitting consecutive display of the plural tree view screens by selection of corresponding time segments of the time bar.
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Specification