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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2007
Stuart Ashby, Thatcham, GB;
Colin John Davies, Fordingbridge, GB;
Simon John Parnall, Kingswood, GB;
James Geoffrey Walker, Winchester, GB;
David John White, Weymouth, GB;
Stuart Ashby, Thatcham, GB;
Colin John Davies, Fordingbridge, GB;
Simon John Parnall, Kingswood, GB;
James Geoffrey Walker, Winchester, GB;
David John White, Weymouth, GB;
Cisco Technology Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of controlling revelation of one or more metadata items is disclosed. Each of the one or more metadata items is associated with one or more parts of an audio-visual data stream (). The method comprises: for a given one or more parts () of the audio-visual data stream (), revealing one or more metadata items () associated with the given one or more parts () of the audio-visual data stream () only after the given one or more parts () of the audio-visual data stream () have been accessed.