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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2004
Applicant:
Damien Kessler, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Damien Kessler, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignees:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Electronics, Inc., Park Ridge, NJ (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for building and maintaining a database in a digital television receiver from information received in MPEG and PSIP tables uses the MPEG tables as a master to facilitate creating, updating, and deleting the database. Each database entry is encapsulated in a memory chain control structure such that freeing memory does not require consideration of the specific content of data in the database.