1. An apparatus for processing liquid products, said apparatus comprising a first system component, a second system component, a first-system-component first valve unit, a first-system-component second valve unit, a second-system-component first valve unit, a second-system-component second valve unit, and a treatment system for cleaning or rinsing product-carrying regions of said first and second system components, wherein said treatment system comprises a first circuit, wherein said first circuit comprises a first ring line, wherein said first circuit comprises a first source for providing a first treatment medium, wherein said first treatment medium comprises liquid cleaning-or-rinsing medium, wherein said first ring line is connected to said first source, wherein said first treatment medium traverses a path along said first ring line, wherein said first circuit begins at a first point, wherein said first circuit ends at a second point, wherein said first point is at said first source, wherein said second point is at said first source, wherein said first-system-component first valve unit, which is on said first ring line, enables controlled tapping of said first treatment medium for treating said first system component from said first ring line, wherein said second-system-component first valve unit, which is on said first ring line, enables controlled tapping of said first treatment medium for treating said second system component from said first ring line, wherein said first-system-component second valve unit, which is on said first ring line, enables controlled feeding back of said first treatment medium to said first ring line after said first treatment medium has been used to treat said first system component, wherein said second-system-component second valve unit, which is on said first ring line, enables controlled feeding back of said first treatment medium to said first ring line after said first treatment medium has been used to treat said second system component, wherein said second-system-component second valve unit is downstream from said second-system-component first valve unit along said first circuit, wherein said first-system-component second valve unit is downstream from said first-system-component first valve unit along said first ring line, wherein said first-system-component first valve unit and said first-system-component second valve unit are configured such that said first circuit remains uninterrupted in a course between said first-system-component first valve unit and said first-system-component second valve unit during tapping and feeding-back of said first treatment medium, and wherein said second-system-component first valve unit and said second-system-component second valve unit are configured such that said first circuit remains uninterrupted in a course between said second-system-component first valve unit and said second-system-component second valve unit during tapping and feeding back of said first treatment medium.
2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said treatment system comprises a second circuit, said second circuit comprising a second source for supplying a second treatment medium, a second ring line that carries said second treatment medium, a second-circuit first valve unit, a second-circuit second valve unit, wherein said second system circuit is independent of said first system circuit, and wherein said second-circuit first valve unit is configured to tap said second ring line in a controlled manner for said second treatment medium.
3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein said second-circuit first valve unit is arranged upstream of said second-circuit second valve unit in relation to a flow direction of said second treatment medium in said second circuit.
4. The apparatus of claim 2, further comprising a control device for individually controlling said second-circuit first valve unit, said second-circuit second valve unit, said first-system-component first valve unit, said first-system-component second valve unit, said second-system-component first valve unit, and said second-system-component second valve unit to enable said first system component to be treated with said first medium and to enable said second system component to be concurrently treated with said second medium.
5. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein said first treatment medium and said second treatment medium are different.
6. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein said first treatment medium and said second treatment medium are the same.
7. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a first feed pipe, a second feed pipe, a first return pipe, a second return pipe, a first treatment path, and a second treatment path, wherein said first feed pipe is part of said first treatment path, wherein said second feed pipe is part of said second treatment path, wherein said first return pipe is part of said first treatment path, wherein said second return pipe is part of said second treatment path, wherein said first treatment path passes through said first system component, thereby enabling a first selected treatment medium to flow during treatment of said first system component, and wherein said second treatment path passes through said second system component, thereby enabling a second selected treatment medium to flow during treatment of said second system component, wherein said first feed pipe taps off said first selected treatment medium, wherein said second feed pipe taps off said second selected treatment medium, wherein said first return pipe returns said first selected treatment medium, and wherein said second return pipe returns said second selected treatment medium.
8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein said first selected treatment medium and said second said first selected treatment medium are different.
9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said first source comprises a tank that contains an acid solution.
10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said first source comprises a tank that contains an alkaline solution.
11. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said first source comprises a tank that contains water.
12. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said first source comprises a tank that contains heated water.
13. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising treatment path feed pipes, treatment path return pipes, a first valve module, a second valve module, a first line, and a further source that contains water containing added disinfectant, wherein said treatment path feed pipes and said treatment path return pipes are connected via said first and second valve modules to said first line, and wherein said first line is connected to said further source for enabling controlled tapping off and feeding back of said water containing added disinfectant.
14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein said first line connected to said further source leads to a drain.
15. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a control device for controlling said first-system-component first valve unit and said first-system-component second valve unit to cause treatment medium fed to said first system component to be fed back to said first system circuit via said first-system-component second valve unit.
16. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a sensor for monitoring a type of treatment medium.
17. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a sensor for monitoring a quality of treatment medium.
18. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a heating element for heating treatment medium in at least one of said first system circuit and said first ring line.
19. The apparatus of claim 2, further comprising a treatment-media separator for ensuring separation of said first and second treatment media in component-side treatment paths.
20. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein said treatment-media separator comprises a control device, and a sensor, wherein said sensor is arranged to detect a property of treatment medium to be fed back from said first system component, and wherein said control device receives information from said sensor and, based at least in part on said information, controls said first-system-component second valve unit to cause treatment medium from said first system component to be fed back into said first ring line.
21. The apparatus of claim 20, further comprising a treatment path return pipe, wherein said sensor is arranged in said treatment path return pipe.
22. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said first system component comprises a filling machine for bottling beverages into containers.
23. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said first system component comprises a buffer store.
24. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said first system component comprises a flash pasteurizing unit.
25. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said first system component comprises a mixer unit.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving a plurality of descriptions including element values of a media content from a plurality of metadata providers;
determining an element associated with the media content;
associating, in storage, individual descriptions with individual metadata providers that provided the descriptions;
associating individual trust levels with individual metadata providers; and
generating in the storage a composite description of the media content based on the descriptions provided by individual metadata providers and the trust levels associated with individual metadata providers,
wherein the trust levels indicate degrees to which metadata provided by the metadata providers is trusted,
wherein the trust levels indicate a ranking of the metadata providers, and
wherein at least one of the metadata providers is assigned at least two metadata category trust levels.
2. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 1, wherein the media content comprises at least one of a movie, a television program, a song, a talk radio show, a sound effect, a photograph, a digital image, an art image, or a home movie.
3. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 1, wherein the descriptions comprise at least one of content identification data, an associated person, genre data, media content description data, a critic review, a popularity, a broadcast ubiquity, a censor parental rating, a censor rating associated with adult content, a censor rating associated with bad language, a censor rating associated with violence, a censor rating associated with nudity, a censor rating associated with drug abuse, technical details data, production details data, enhancement data, language data, or associated media.
4. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 1, further comprising sending the composite description of the media content to end users for display through an electronic programming guide.
5. A system comprising:
means for receiving a plurality of descriptions including element values of a media content from a plurality of metadata providers;
means for determining an element associated with the media content;
means for associating, in storage, individual descriptions with individual metadata providers that provided the descriptions;
means for associating individual trust levels with individual metadata providers; and
means for generating in the storage a composite description of the media content based on the descriptions provided by individual metadata providers and the trust levels associated with individual metadata providers,
wherein the trust levels indicate a ranking of the metadata providers, and
wherein at least one of the metadata providers is assigned at least two metadata category trust levels.
6. The system as recited in claim 5, wherein the media content comprises at least one of a movie, a television program, a song, a talk radio show, a sound effect, a photograph, a digital image, an art image, or a home movie.
7. The system as recited in claim 5, wherein the descriptions comprise at least one of content identification data, an associated person, genre data, media content description data, a critic review, a popularity, a broadcast ubiquity, a censor parental rating, a censor rating associated with adult content, a censor rating associated with bad language, a censor rating associated with violence, a censor rating associated with nudity, a censor rating associated with drug abuse, technical details data, production details data, enhancement data, language data, or associated media.
8. The system as recited in claim 5, wherein the trust levels indicate degrees to which metadata provided by metadata providers is trusted.
9. The system as recited in claim 5, further comprising means for sending the composite description of the media content to end users for display through an electronic programming guide.
10. A computer-readable storage media comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed, perform acts comprising:
receiving a plurality of descriptions including element values of a media content from a plurality of metadata providers;
determining an element associated with the media content;
associating, in storage, individual descriptions with individual metadata providers that provided the descriptions;
associating individual trust levels with individual metadata providers; and
generating in the storage a composite description of the media content based on the descriptions provided by individual metadata providers and the trust levels associated with individual metadata providers,
wherein the trust levels indicate a ranking of the metadata providers, and
wherein at least one of the metadata providers is assigned at least two metadata category trust levels.
11. The computer-readable storage media as recited in claim 10, wherein the media content comprises at least one of a movie, a television program, a song, a talk radio show, a sound effect, a photograph, a digital image, an art image, or a home movie.
12. The computer-readable storage media as recited in claim 10, wherein the descriptions comprise at least one of content identification data, an associated person, genre data, media content description data, a critic review, a popularity, a broadcast ubiquity, a censor parental rating, a censor rating associated with adult content, a censor rating associated with bad language, a censor rating associated with violence, a censor rating associated with nudity, a censor rating associated with drug abuse, technical details data, production details data, enhancement data, language data, or associated media.
13. The computer-readable storage media as recited in claim 10, wherein the trust levels indicate degrees to which metadata provided by metadata providers is trusted.
14. The computer-readable storage media as recited in claim 10, further comprising sending the composite description of the media content to end users for display through an electronic programming guide.
15. The method of claim 1, wherein the trust levels are related with different groupings of metadata categories.
16. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one metadata category trust level applies to at least two metadata categories.
17. The method of claim 1, wherein each metadata provider is assigned stack level ratings for metadata categories, and wherein each metadata provider is assigned an ordered rank for each metadata category.