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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 1998
Filed:
Jan. 04, 1995
Mark John Baugher, Austin, TX (US);
Alan Palmer Stephens, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system for the efficient determination of quality of service parameters for multimedia files accessed during operation of a specified multimedia application. Operation of the specified multimedia application is initiated. During operation, the multimedia application accesses multimedia files by reading the data stored in those files. The multimedia files are identified, and each read performed by the multimedia application is analyzed while each multimedia file is accessed. Quality of service parameters for each multimedia file may be automatically determined utilizing the analysis of each read of a multimedia file performed by the multimedia application.