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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2002
Ali Tabatabai, Cupertino, CA (US);
Hawley K. Rising, Iii, San Jose, CA (US);
Mohammed Z. Visharam, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Toby Walker, San Jose, CA (US);
Ali Tabatabai, Cupertino, CA (US);
Hawley K. Rising, III, San Jose, CA (US);
Mohammed Z. Visharam, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Toby Walker, San Jose, CA (US);
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Electronics Inc., Park Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
The content description of multimedia content contains a plurality of descriptor values that pertain to specific events within the media. A Transport Hint Table (THT) provides a set of synchronization events that indicate the relation between timed events in the media and their representation in the content's description data. The THT allows for synchronized delivery of presentation of content description data with the associated events in the media. The THT provides a set of sync events based on the existence of 'time' related events obtained from the content description data, which are relevant to particular events in the media. The THT allows the transport layer encoder to use the time-related events to synchronize the scheduled delivery times of media content segments and their associated descriptions. The THT also provides information for fragmenting a description for delivery and for managing resources at the decoder.