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Asset management and scheduling graphical user interface for media streamer

  • US 6,763,377 B1
  • Filed: 03/03/2000
  • Issued: 07/13/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A process for providing a centralized user interface at an administrator terminal in a network for scheduling and coordinating the execution of operations performed on selected portions of media data by selected ones of a plurality of local and remote media servers of the network the servers being coupled with associated local and remote memory devices and operative to encode and parse portions of the media data, comprising:

  • displaying a graphical user interface at the administrator terminal, the interface including a plurality of interface components enabling a user to select portions of the media data, source locations and destination locations, and to specify and schedule operations to be performed by the selected ones of the plurality of media servers;

    receiving information input by the user identifying the selected media servers, the specified operations to be performed on the selected portions of the media data to create media assets, and the schedule for performing the operations, the operations including;

    copy operations for copying the selected portions of the media data from the selected source locations to the selected destination locations;

    an adding operation for adding the selected portions of the media data from the local memory devices to a catalog of the selected media server, the adding operation including selectively parsing the selected portions of the media data;

    a loading operation for loading the selected portions of the media data from selected remote memory devices to the catalog of the selected media server, the loading operation including selectively parsing the selected portion of the media data; and

    , staging the created media assets from the selected media server to the selected destination location;

    generating commands and associated parameters based on the input information for instructing the selected media servers to execute the specified operations in accordance with the specified schedule; and

    transmitting the commands and associated parameters to the selected media servers.

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