Patent ID: 8386703
Filing Date: 2013-02-26
Classification: G06F,G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A receiver for digital data broadcast from a remote location, said receiver comprising: a storage means for the selective storage of digital data broadcast from a remote location therein, the data to be stored including instruction data, block data, and paths for the data being decoupled; a control system for control of the storage means and control of storage of data therein, the control system including a single storage-instruction “first in first out” buffer being capable of receiving instructions in a generic form; a control processing unit for analyzing the digital data to determine when it should be stored; said control processing unit inserting instructions in generic form into the single storage-instruction “first in first out” buffer; said instructions comprising: (a) register read and write commands in a generic form for the control of storage of the digital data in the storage means; (b) control system commands for automating the bulk transfer of said digital data to and from said storage means; and wherein within the single storage-instruction first-in-first-out buffer the control commands for automating the bulk transfer of the digital data from the control system are compatible and intermixable with the register read and write commands.