Patent ID: 8180194
Filing Date: 2012-05-15
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
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.