Periodic broadcast and location of evolving media content with application to seminar and stroke media
First Claim
1. A method comprising the steps of:
- storing a plurality of data elements in a data structure;
defining at least one general mask and a data structure description that describes the data elements in the data structure, wherein the data structure comprises one or more of a serial stream, an ordered set comprised of subsets, and a hierarchical data structure comprised of subgraphs, wherein each data element has one or more of a node position, a bit position and a subset position;
defining, by using the data structure description, one or more links, each of the links locating one or more data elements in the data structure and, by using the general mask, a particular mask comprising one or more links, each of the links providing access to a data element; and
retrieving, by using one of the links, a corresponding one of the data elements.
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Abstract
Techniques are provided for broadcasting history or coarse representations or both of stroke media and other media. Levels are created for media, and the levels are periodically broadcast. The levels segment the media and allow the media to be examined with details that range from coarse to fine or examined with varying importance or both. The periodic broadcast of the levels provides history of the media. In particular, for stroke data, levels of detail are determined through a certain method. Each level of detail is periodically broadcast. The levels of detail may be shown by themselves or combined at a receiver to create segmented views of the stroke data. A user can select a coarse view of the stroke data to quickly see the stroke history. Additionally, techniques are provided for quickly and repeatedly accessing data elements in already existing data structures. Generally, a description is created that describes data elements in a preexisting data structure. One or more links are created, from the description, which allow a user to directly access particular data elements for the preexisting data structure.
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12 Claims
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1. A method comprising the steps of:
storing a plurality of data elements in a data structure; defining at least one general mask and a data structure description that describes the data elements in the data structure, wherein the data structure comprises one or more of a serial stream, an ordered set comprised of subsets, and a hierarchical data structure comprised of subgraphs, wherein each data element has one or more of a node position, a bit position and a subset position; defining, by using the data structure description, one or more links, each of the links locating one or more data elements in the data structure and, by using the general mask, a particular mask comprising one or more links, each of the links providing access to a data element; and retrieving, by using one of the links, a corresponding one of the data elements. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A system comprising:
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a memory that stores computer-readable code; and a processor operatively coupled to the memory, the processor configured to implement the computer-readable code, the computer-readable code configured to; store a plurality of data elements in a data structure; define at least one general mask and a data structure description that describes the data elements in the data structure, wherein the data structure comprises one or more of a serial stream, an ordered set comprised of subsets, and a hierarchical data structure comprised of subgraphs, wherein each data element has one or more of a node position, a bit position and a subset position; define, by using the data structure description, one or more links, each of the links locating one or more data elements in the data structure and, by using the general mask, a particular mask comprising one or more links, each of the links providing access to a data element; and retrieve, by using one of the links, a corresponding one of the data elements. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8)
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9. An article of manufacture comprising:
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a tangible computer-readable recordable medium having computer-readable code means embodied thereon, the computer-readable program code means comprising; a step to store a plurality of data elements in a data structure; a step to define at least one general mask and a data structure description that describes the data elements in the data structure, wherein the data structure comprises one or more of a serial stream, an ordered set comprised of subsets, and a hierarchical data structure comprised of subgraphs, wherein each data element has one or more of a node position, a bit position and a subset position; a step to define, by using the data structure description, one or more links, each of the links locating one or more data elements in the data structure and, by using the general mask, a particular mask comprising one or more links, each of the links providing access to a data element; and a step to retrieve, by using one of the links, a corresponding one of the data elements. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12)
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