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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2001
Jay Yogeshwar, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Stephen A. Martucci, Kendall Park, NJ (US);
Bobby R. Gupta, Robbinsville, NJ (US);
Melanie R. Fendt, Cherry Hill, NJ (US);
Frederick M. Venzie, Iii, Cherry Hill, NJ (US);
Jay Yogeshwar, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Stephen A. Martucci, Kendall Park, NJ (US);
Bobby R. Gupta, Robbinsville, NJ (US);
Melanie R. Fendt, Cherry Hill, NJ (US);
Frederick M. Venzie, III, Cherry Hill, NJ (US);
Front Porch Digital Inc., Cherry Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
Archival storage and retrieval of audio/video information is described. Audio and/or video information is digitized, compressed and stored in an intermediate archive format (IAF), which preserves the content at a high-enough quality for subsequent retrieval and conversion into various formats required at the time of use or distribution. A single capture operation is performed with ancillary metadata being added to facilitate subsequent searching, indexing and format conversion. Captured data content is catalogued and indexed at or subsequent to the creation of an IAF file that includes the archived information. The IAF includes a family of audio-video digital encoding formats based on public standards. The encoding format used in any particular application is determined at encoding time from information provided by the archive system user. At encoding, the particular encoding scheme is selected to optimize a tradeoff between storage constraints and end use quality requirements.