Interface and method for managing multimedia content and related information
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1. An interface for linking one or more applications to a plurality of databases comprising:
- a plurality of nodes to retrieve data from said one or more databases and to provide said data to said one or more applications in a consistent manner; and
one or more services to perform predefined actions associated with said nodes, wherein each node may be associated with several different services and each service may be associated with several different nodes.
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Abstract
A system is disclosed comprising: a plurality of disparate databases containing data related to multimedia content and/or Internet content; a plurality of applications to access and process data from the databases; and a node layer comprising a first type of nodes adapted to retrieve data from a first type of database and a second type of nodes to retrieve data from a second type of database, wherein both the first type of nodes and the second type of nodes provide the data to the applications in a consistent data format.
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1. An interface for linking one or more applications to a plurality of databases comprising:
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a plurality of nodes to retrieve data from said one or more databases and to provide said data to said one or more applications in a consistent manner; and
one or more services to perform predefined actions associated with said nodes, wherein each node may be associated with several different services and each service may be associated with several different nodes. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A data interface layer within a multimedia system for providing data from a plurality of different multimedia databases to one or more applications comprising:
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a first data interface object adapted to retrieve a first set of data from a first one of said databases and provide said data to said applications;
a second data interface object adapted to retrieve a second set of data from a second one of said databases and provide said data to said applications, wherein said data is provided to said applications from both said first data interface object and said second data interface object in a consistent manner. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A system comprising:
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a plurality of disparate databases containing data related to multimedia content and/or Internet content;
a plurality of applications to access and process data from said databases; and
a node layer comprising a plurality of nodes including a first type of node adapted to retrieve data from a first type of database and a second type of node adapted to retrieve data from a second type of database, wherein both said first type of node and said second type of node provide said data to said applications in a consistent data format. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26)
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