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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2000
Gerard Richter, Saint Jeannet, FR;
Jean-Yves Solves, Marietta, GA (US);
Avaya Technology Corp., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
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.