Patents Assigned to Sony Electronics, Inc. & Sony Corporation
  • Method and apparatus for maintaining a digital television receiver database
    Publication number: 20040194149
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2004
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Applicant: Sony Electronics, Inc. & Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Damien Kessler