Patent ID: 8984159
Filing Date: 2015-03-17
Classification: H03M,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for generating control information for use in transmission with multimedia content to an audiovisual device, the method comprising: generating first control information, wherein the first control information is for configuring the audiovisual device to present the multimedia content; wherein the control information is organized according to a tree data structure having a plurality of nodes, wherein at least some of the nodes are leaf nodes, wherein the leaf nodes store data values for configuring the audiovisual device; wherein the control information comprises a plurality of commands, wherein at least a subset of the commands are executable by the audiovisual device to navigate the nodes of the tree structure to locate the data values stored at the leaf nodes; wherein at least a subset of the commands have associated data fields, wherein each of the plurality of commands comprises a plurality of bit portions of a uniform length, wherein each of the data fields comprises a plurality of bit portions having uniform length; wherein a designated bit of the bit portions of the commands has a first value indicating that the bit portion is a command; wherein a designated bit of the bit portions of the data fields has a second value indicating that the bit portion is a data field, wherein the second value is different than the first value; storing the first control information for transmission to the audiovisual device.