Patent ID: 7865498

Claim:
A broadcast network search system, comprising: a plurality of data sources, the data sources further comprising a plurality of data types including text, image, audio, video, multimedia, and/or icon data types representing at least one broadcast allocation node or sub-node in the broadcast network; means to provide a virtual representation of a hierarchical network having entities and sub-entities; a numerical indexing system for nodes and sub-nodes; means to group the entities and sub-entities into the numerical indexing system; and a multilevel numerical index having pre-assigned numerical index numbers related to specific broadcast allocation nodes and sub-nodes of data within a broadcast network; a search engine with means to search the database based on the pre-assigned numerical index numbers; means to search numerically assigned broadcast allocation nodes or sub-nodes; means to input selected numerical index numbers to the search engine; and display means to display the results of the search such that the search results include videos related to the numerical index numbers containing information describing the content of a URL; whereby the search engine that can search a database using pre-assigned numbers related to specific nodes and sub-nodes of data within at least one broadcast network, and display videos containing information describing the content of an associated URL.