Mechanism for storing information about recorded television broadcasts
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Abstract
Program content, recorded to a storage medium such as disk recorder, optical recorder or random access memory, is indexed by the replay file system. The file system maintains a storage location and program I.D. record for each recorded program. The file system further maintains other data obtained from an electronic program guide that may be accessed by downloading from the cable or satellite infrastructure or over the internet. The file system also may store additional user data, such as the date and time the program was last viewed, together with any user-recorded indexes. The file system may be accessed through natural language input speech. The system includes a speech recognizer and natural language parser, coupled to a dialog system that engages the user in a dialog to determine what the user is interested in accessing from the storage medium. The natural language parser operates with a task-based grammar that is keyed to the electronic program guide data and user data maintained by the file system.
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26 Claims
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1-12. -12. (Cancelled)
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13. A method for performing file management upon a group of entertainment media files, comprising:
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processing an input speech utterance to extract first information about said group of entertainment media files;
maintaining a user data store containing data about a user'"'"'s prior use of said group of entertainment media files;
based on said first information, extracting second information from the user data store;
using said first and second information to identify at least one specific file from said group of entertainment media files;
performing a management operation upon said specific file. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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