Method and apparatus for distributing binary presentations within digital media content files

• US 7,849,159 B2
• Filed: 11/22/2002
• Issued: 12/07/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: RealNetworks, Inc.
• Inventors: Chasen, Jeffrey Martin, Elman, Joshua E.
• Primary Examiner(s): PHILLIPS, HASSAN A
• Application Number:
  US10/302,670
• Publication Number:
  US 20040103207A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,937 Days
• Field of Search: 709/231
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/431 Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8106 involving special audio data, e.g. different tracks for different languages
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/85406 involving a specific file format, e.g. MP4 format
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8543 using a description language, e.g. Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group [MHEG], eXtensible Markup Language [XML] information retrieval of semistructured data, the underlying structure being taken into account, e.g. mark-up language structure data G06F16/80
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/173 with two-way working, e.g. subscriber sending a programme selection signal

Abstract

A method and apparatus for distributing binary presentations within digital media content files includes receiving a first digital media content file of a first digital media file type and including first digital media content and a binary presentation embedded within the digital media file, facilitating rendering of the binary presentation contemporaneously with rendering of the first digital media content, receiving a second digital media content file of a second digital media file type and including second digital media content and the binary presentation embedded within the second digital media file, and facilitating rendering of the binary presentation contemporaneously with the rendering of the second digital audio content.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving, via a networking fabric, a first media content file of a first digital media file type;

invoking a first interpreter corresponding to said first digital media file type, said first interpreter determining, according to a property of said first media content file, that said first media content file includes first media content and a first binary presentation comprising a first binary data file;

facilitating rendering of the first binary presentation in a first pane of an application window contemporaneously with rendering of the first media content in a second pane of said application window;

receiving, via said networking fabric, a second media content file of a second digital media file type;

invoking a second interpreter corresponding to said second digital media file type, said second interpreter determining, according to a property of said second media content file, that said second media content file includes second media content and a second binary presentation comprising a second binary data file; and

facilitating rendering of the second binary presentation in said first pane of said application window contemporaneously with rendering of the second media content in said second pane of said application window.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first binary presentation is prepended to the first media content in the first media content file.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the second binary presentation is appended to the second media content in the second media content file.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first binary presentation is appended to the first media content in the first media content file.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first and second media content includes a metadata section within which at least one of the first and second binary presentations is included.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first and the second media content comprises streamed timeline-based data and at least one of the first and second binary presentations contains non-timeline based data.

7. In a digital media content player, a method comprising:

receiving, via a networking fabric, a first media file, selected from at least one of an audio file and a video file, including first audio content and a first binary presentation comprising a first binary data file that references a first additional data file, wherein said first binary presentation is included within the first digital media file such that the included first binary presentation is self-contained within the first digital media file;

determining a first media file type of a plurality of media file types to which the first media file corresponds;

invoking one of a plurality of interpreters based upon the first media file type to extract the first included binary presentation from the first media file and pass the binary presentation to a rendering engine to facilitate rendering of the first binary presentation while the first audio content is being rendered;

receiving, via said networking fabric, a second media file, selected from at least one of an audio file and a video file, including second audio content and a second binary presentation comprising a second binary data file that references a second additional data file, wherein said second binary presentation is included within the second digital media file such that the included second binary presentation is self-contained within the second digital media file;

determining a second media file type of the plurality of media file types to which the second media file corresponds; and

invoking a second of the plurality of interpreters based upon the second media file type to extract the second included binary presentation from the second media file and pass the binary presentation to the rendering engine to facilitate rendering of the second binary presentation while the second audio content is being rendered.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the first binary presentation is prepended to the first audio content in the first media file.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the second binary presentation is appended to the second audio content in the second media file.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the first binary presentation is appended to the first audio content in the first media file.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein at least one of the first and second audio content includes a metadata section within which at least one of the first and second binary presentations is included.

12. The method of claim 7, wherein at least one of the first and the second digital audio content comprises streamed timeline-based data and at least one of the first and second binary presentations contains non-timeline based data.

13. A computer-implemented method comprising:

identifying a binary presentation comprising a binary data file, the binary presentation to be included into one or more of a plurality of digital media content files for distribution, via a networking fabric, as a component of the one or more digital media content files;

identifying a first of the plurality of digital media content files to receive the binary presentation;

determining a first file type corresponding to the first digital media content file; and

including a presentation property tag and the binary presentation into the first digital media content file, in accordance with a file type-specific data mapping, to facilitate subsequent extraction, via a file type-specific interpreter, of the binary presentation from the first digital media content file and rendering of the binary presentation in a first pane of an application window contemporaneous with rendering of the first digital media content file in a second pane of said application window.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the binary presentation is prepended to the first media content in the first media content file.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the binary presentation is appended to a second media content in a second media content file.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the binary presentation is appended to the first media content in the first media content file.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein at least one of the first media content, of a first media content file, and a second media content, of a second media content file, includes a metadata section within which the binary presentation is included.

18. The method of claim 13, wherein at least one of the first media content, of a first media content file, and a second media content, of a second media content file, comprises streamed timeline-based data and the binary presentation contains non-timeline based data.

19. A non-transitory recordable medium having instructions stored thereon, which when executed, implement a method comprising:

receiving, via a networking fabric, a first media content file of a first digital media file type;

invoking a first interpreter corresponding to said first digital media file type, said first interpreter determining, according to a property of said first media content file, that said first media content file includes first media content and a first binary presentation comprising a first binary data file;

rendering the first binary presentation in a first pane of an application window contemporaneously with rendering of the first media content in a second pane of said application window;

receiving, via said networking fabric, a second media content file of a second digital media file type;

invoking a second interpreter corresponding to said second digital media file type, said second interpreter determining, according to a property of said second media content file, that said second media content file includes second media content and a second binary presentation comprising a second binary data file; and

rendering the second binary presentation in said first pane of said application window contemporaneously with rendering of the second media content in said second pane of said application window.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the first binary presentation is prepended to the first media content in the first media content file.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the second binary presentation is appended to the second media content in the second media content file.

22. The method of claim 19, wherein the first binary presentation is appended to the first media content in the first media content file.

23. The method of claim 19, wherein at least one of the first and second media content includes a metadata section within which at least one of the first and second binary presentations is included.

24. The method of claim 19, wherein at least one of the first and the second digital media content comprises streamed timeline-based data and at least one of the first and second binary presentations contains non-timeline based data.

25. A non-transitory recordable medium having instructions stored thereon, which when executed, implement a method comprising:

identifying a binary presentation comprising a binary data file, the binary presentation to be included into one or more of a plurality of digital media content files for distribution, via a networking fabric, as a component of the one or more digital media content files;

identifying a first of the plurality of digital media content files to receive the binary presentation;

determining a first file type corresponding to the first digital media content file; and

including a presentation property tag and the binary presentation into the first digital media content file, in accordance with a file type-specific data mapping, to facilitate subsequent extraction, via a file type-specific interpreter, of the binary presentation from the first digital media content file and rendering of the binary presentation in a first pane of an application window contemporaneous with rendering of the first digital media content file in a second pane of said application window.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein the binary presentation is prepended to the first media content in the first media content file.

27. The method of claim 26, wherein a second binary presentation is appended to a second media content in a second media content file.

28. The method of claim 25, wherein the binary presentation is appended to the first media content in the first media content file.

29. The method of claim 25, wherein at least one of the first media content, of a first media content file, and a second media content, of a second media content file, includes a metadata section within which at least one of the first and second binary presentations is included.

30. The method of claim 25, wherein at least one of the first media content, of a first media content file, and a second media content, of a second media content file, comprises streamed timeline-based data and at least one of the first and second binary presentations contains non-timeline based data.

31. An apparatus comprising:

a non-transitory storage medium having stored therein programming instructions designed to enable the apparatus to;

receive, via a networking fabric, a first media content file of a first digital media file type;

invoking a first interpreter corresponding to said first digital media file type, said first interpreter determining, according to a property of said first media content file, that said first media content file includes first media content and a first binary presentation comprising a first binary data file;

render the first binary presentation in a first pane of an application window contemporaneously with rendering of the first media content in a second pane of said application window;

receive, via said networking fabric, a second media content file of a second digital media file type;

invoking a second interpreter corresponding to said second digital media file type, said second interpreter determining, according to a property of said second media content file, that said second media content file includes second media content and a second binary presentation comprising a second binary data file; and

render the second binary presentation in said first pane of said application window contemporaneously with rendering of the second media content in said second pane of said application window; and

at least one processor coupled with the storage medium to execute the programming instructions.

32. The method of claim 31, wherein the first binary presentation is prepended to the first media content in the first media content file.

33. The method of claim 32, wherein the second binary presentation is appended to the second media content in the second media content file.

34. The method of claim 31, wherein the first binary presentation is appended to the first media content in the first media content file.

35. The method of claim 31, wherein at least one of the first and second media content includes a metadata section within which at least one of the first and second binary presentations is included.

36. The method of claim 31, wherein at least one of the first and the second digital media content comprises streamed timeline-based data and at least one of the first and second binary presentations contains non-timeline based data.

37. An apparatus comprising:

a non-transitory storage medium having stored therein programming instructions designed to enable the apparatus to;

identify a binary presentation comprising a binary data file, the binary presentation to be included into one or more of a plurality of digital media content files for distribution, via a networking fabric, as a component of the one or more digital media content files;

identify a first of the plurality of digital media content files to receive the binary presentation,

determine a first file type corresponding to the first digital media content file, and

include a presentation property tag and the binary presentation into the first digital media content file, in accordance with a file type-specific data mapping, to facilitate subsequent extraction, via a file type-specific interpreter, of the binary presentation from the first digital media content file and rendering of the binary presentation in a first pane of an application window contemporaneous with rendering of the first digital media content file in a second pane of said application window by a digital media content player; and

at least one processor coupled with the storage medium to execute the programming instructions.

38. The method of claim 37, wherein the binary presentation is prepended to the first media content in the first media content file.

39. The method of claim 38, wherein the second binary presentation is appended to the second media content in the second media content file.

40. The method of claim 37, wherein the binary presentation is appended to the first media content in the first media content file.

41. The method of claim 37, wherein at least one of the first media content, of a first media content file, and a second media content, of a second media content file, includes a metadata section within which at least one of the first and second binary presentations is included.

42. The method of claim 37, wherein at least one of the first media content, of a first media content file, and a second media content, of a second media content file, comprises streamed timeline-based data and at least one of the first and second binary presentations contains non-timeline based data.