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Microsoft Corporation

David N Junod

Kosar Akram Jaff

Peter T Barrett

Samuel Thomas Scott, Iii

Kevin T Carle

Landon M Dyer

Federico Garcea

David D Good

Kosar Jaff

Systems and methods for remotely programming a set top box and for remotely scheduling an event on a set top box. A set top box includes a server that allows an access device to access the set top box over an always on connection between the set top box and a network such as the Internet. The access device retrieves program guide data that is locally stored on the set top box and, using the program guide data, selects and schedules events. The events are sent back to the set top box over the connection where they are implemented by the set top box.

Remotely accessing and programming a set top box

Raw media metadata can be packaged as dense media metadata via a compression operation. In a described implementation, metadata for a media item is defined with a media item entry that references instances of property values in one or more property tables.

Dense formats for media metadata

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David N Junod