BUNDLING OF MULTIMEDIA CONTENT AND DECODING MEANS
First Claim
1. A method for receiving multimedia content by an electronic device, the method comprising:
- receiving multimedia content from an associated source;
determining that the multimedia content includes a command component and a media component expressed in a first format.
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Abstract
Disclosed is a system and method of bundling full or partial decoding and/or post-processing mechanisms together with media content in the form of an electronic file. The combined file may be transmitted to another device that is able to execute the decoding and/or post-processing such that the receiving device can render the media content in an appropriate manner (e.g., playback of audio, display a picture, etc.) with sufficient fidelity. Aspects of the present invention extend the use of metadata associated with the a multimedia content to incorporate a specification for how the multimedia file should be decoded or partially decoded from a compressed state (e.g., MP3, JPEG, WAV, etc.) and post-processed into a state than can be rendered by a device. In one embodiment, the specification is in the form of a script comprising an ordered list of functions or primitives that are executed by the receiving device to transform the associated multimedia file into the desired content to be rendered. In another embodiment, the decoding instructions are provided as an element of an extensible markup language (XML) file. The XML file may accompany the multimedia file or the multimedia file may be another element of the XML file.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for receiving multimedia content by an electronic device, the method comprising:
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receiving multimedia content from an associated source; determining that the multimedia content includes a command component and a media component expressed in a first format. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method for transmitting multimedia content, the method comprising:
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transmitting a request for multimedia content from an electronic device to an associated source, wherein the request includes device dependent configuration information for rendering the multimedia content on the electronic device; receiving multimedia content from the associated source, wherein the multimedia content includes a command component and a media component expressed in a first format based at least in part on the device dependent configuration information provided in the request. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A portable communications device comprising:
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a non-volatile memory; a multimedia stack having a plurality of multimedia codecs for processing multimedia content stored in the non-volatile memory, a processor operable to determine if multimedia content received by the mobile telephone includes a command component and a media component and processing the command component of the multimedia content in the portable communications device to transform the media component from a first format to a second format suitable for rendering on the portable communications device.
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