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Graphical user interface for a transport multiplexer
Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
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Filing: 2002-04-16
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Granted: 2006-02-07
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Expires: 2022-04-16
Abstract
Abstract A feature-rich transport multiplexer and a number of associated methods, systems, subsystems, software features, graphical user interfaces and control systems are disclosed. The disclosure includes GUI's that enable operators to easily monitor and manipulate content streams flowing through a transport multiplexer in real-time. The disclosed interfaces include screens that supply operators with identity, structure, configuration, bandwidth utilization and/or status information for system hardware and software. The disclosed features also provide computer assisted routing configuration for present and future routing events through simple manipulation, such as drag and drop operations, of graphical objects. Routing control is further simplified by permitting operators to configure routing control of individual content stream components as well as groups of such components simultaneously. Further flexibility is permitted by predetermination of future routing events, thereby enabling the automatic execution of configuration changes at a future time. Various types of content, such as video, audio, IP data can be manipulated to achieve various results such as one or more multiplexed MPEG data streams.
Inventors
- 👤 Branislav N. Meandzija
- 👤 Jeff H. Hewett
- 👤 Ying Ying Tsay
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-29 11:27
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04L; H04L12/00; H04L12/02; H04L12/16; H04L12/18; H04L41/00; H04L41/02; H04L41/0213; H04L41/0246; H04L41/0253; H04L41/04; H04L41/046; H04L41/06; H04L41/08; H04L41/0896; H04L41/22; H04L43/00; H04L43/04; H04L43/045; H04L43/08; H04L43/0805; H04L43/0817; H04L43/0876; H04L43/0888; H04L65/00; H04L65/1066; H04L65/1101; H04L67/00; H04L67/50; H04L67/51; H04L67/75; H04L69/00; H04L69/22; H04L69/30; H04L69/32; H04L69/322; H04L69/329; H04L9/00; H04L9/40; H04N; H04N21/00; H04N21/20; H04N21/23; H04N21/235; H04N21/236; H04N21/23614; H04N21/2365; H04N21/40; H04N21/43; H04N21/434; H04N21/4347; H04N21/4348; H04N21/435; H04N21/60; H04N21/63; H04N21/643; H04N21/6433; H04N7/00; H04N7/24; H04N7/52; H04L2212/00
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 12
Claim 1
Independent Claim
122 words
A graphical user interface for use in a transport multiplexer having plural input ports and plural output ports wherein dynamic content streams are received at the input ports and routed to the output ports, the content streams comprising plural components and having attributes that include bit rate, type and name, the graphical user interface comprising: a tree view screen for displaying graphical objects representing the input ports and the output ports and for displaying input and output trees with plural branches indicating the hierarchical structure of respective input and output content streams, the tree view screen indicating the content streams received at and routing through the transport multiplexer and displaying, in real-time, changes in the content streams received at the transport multiplexer.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
122 words
A graphical user interface for use in a transport multiplexer having plural input ports and plural output ports wherein dynamic content streams are received at the input ports and routed to the output ports, the content streams comprising plural components and having attributes that include bit rate, type and name, the graphical user interface comprising: a tree view screen for displaying graphical objects representing the input ports and the output ports and for displaying input and output trees with plural branches indicating the hierarchical structure of respective input and output content streams, the tree view screen indicating the content streams received at and routing through the transport multiplexer and displaying, in real-time, changes in the content streams received at the transport multiplexer.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
37 words
The graphical user interface of claim 1 wherein at least some of the graphical objects are icons and wherein selection of an icon displays a transport editor window in which the content stream attributes may be modified.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
33 words
The graphical user interface of claim 2 wherein output bandwidth utilization of said output content streams is recalculated and redisplayed in real-time in response to at least one content stream attribute being modified.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
27 words
The graphical user interface of claim 1 wherein the tree view screen further comprises a scrolling log message window for displaying system generated log messages in real-time.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
24 words
The graphical user interface of claim 4 wherein the generated log messages to be displayed are filtered in accordance with plural predetermined filter levels.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
34 words
The graphical user interface of claim 1 wherein the input and output trees further comprise graphical objects indicative of the type of content streams received by the input ports and exiting the output ports.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
77 words
A graphical user interface for use in a transport multiplexer with a chassis having plural hardware and software components to route input content streams received by input ports to predetermined output ports, the graphical user interface comprising: a chassis view screen for displaying graphical objects representing the physical structure of the hardware components installed in the chassis of the transport multiplexer, the graphical objects indicating the type of input and output ports provided by the hardware components.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
77 words
A graphical user interface for use in a transport multiplexer with a chassis having plural hardware and software components to route input content streams received by input ports to predetermined output ports, the graphical user interface comprising: a chassis view screen for displaying graphical objects representing the physical structure of the hardware components installed in the chassis of the transport multiplexer, the graphical objects indicating the type of input and output ports provided by the hardware components.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
24 words
The graphical user interface of claim 7 wherein the chassis view screen also displays in real-time the operational status of the displayed hardware components.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
36 words
The graphical user interface of claim 7 wherein the graphical user interface further comprises a software attributes screen for displaying attributes of the software utilized in the transport multiplexer, the software attributes comprising software version number.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
24 words
The graphical user interface of claim 7 wherein the interface is capable of graphically displaying in real-time changes detected in the hardware status data.
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