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Authored video programs

  • US 8,180,194 B2
  • Filed: 02/27/2007
  • Issued: 05/15/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/21/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A non-transitory storage medium encoded with an authored video program, wherein the video program is authored by a process that includes the steps of:

  • generating a predetermined program chain (“

    PGC”

    ) data structure from a plurality of command segments associated with a plurality of user abstraction components, wherein the user abstraction components comprise high level command segments not disclosed in an authoring standard, and wherein a PGC data structure defines a set of low-level command combinations in accordance with an authoring standard; and

    compiling the video program by resolving abstracted connections between combinations of user abstracted components and respective extracted PGC'"'"'s from the plurality of user abstracted components, wherein;

    the plurality of user abstracted components includes menu buttons, movie chapters and interconnected command segments; and

    instructions associated with the plurality of command segments and a configuration of the command segments within the video program are abstracted.

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