Avaya Technology LLC

Jean-Yves Solves

Gerard Richter

Walter Joseph Fant

A method and an apparatus for managing signal-processing resources of a multimedia platform that is designed for applying signal-processing operations to multimedia signals defines multimedia functions each capable of monitoring the operation of a set of multimedia platform signal-processing resources, puts them in contact, adapts the contents of the signal-processing resource set depending on the multimedia signal to be processed, and uses the multimedia functions to apply the signal-processing operations to the multimedia signals.

Method for managing multimedia platform resources and multimedia platform for implementing it

A multimedia processing system architecture performs a plurality of multimedia tasks on multimedia data using a plurality of multimedia processing blocks, at least one communication bus to carry the flow of multimedia data between the multimedia processing blocks. An application interface manages the multimedia processing blocks. For each multimedia task, the application interface creates a subset of multimedia processing blocks to be assembled in order to run the multimedia task. In this architecture, each multimedia processing block comprises at least one input interface to connect it in receive mode to a communication bus and/or at least one output interface to connect it in send mode to a communication bus. To create a subset of multimedia processing blocks, the application interface selects multimedia processing blocks to form the subset, and then examines the input and output interfaces of the selected multimedia processing blocks in order to check whether all the multimedia data exchanges to perform the multimedia task are possible within the subset and determine, for these exchanges, the encoding format of the multimedia data to be exchanged and the communication buses to be used to connect the different multimedia processing blocks of the subset in pairs according to the complementarity of the ports of their respective input interface and output interface.

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Jean-Yves Solves