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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2023
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Danilo Ong Tan, Austin, TX (US);
Douglas Wayne Gillespie, Anna, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Enabling codecs at an IHS, including: detecting a request to encode or decode a media file, the media file associated with a particular codec for encoding or decoding of the media file, the codec wrapper indicating to the media framework a capability to encode or decode the media file, the codec wrapper not including the particular codec; in response to receiving the request, failing, based on the codec wrapper not including the particular codec, encoding or decoding of the media file by the codec wrapper; transmitting a request to a cloud codec management service for a particular token associated with the particular codec; receiving the particular token, the particular token signed and unique to the IHS, and in response: uninstalling the wrapper codec from being associated with the media framework; and enabling the particular codec for the media file to be associated with the media framework.