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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:
Nov. 29, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2015
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Christopher Flick, San Jose, CA (US);
David Singer, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G11B 27/30 (2006.01); H04N 21/443 (2011.01); H04N 21/84 (2011.01); H04N 21/854 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/3002 (2013.01); G06F 17/301 (2013.01); G06F 17/30041 (2013.01); G06F 17/30817 (2013.01); G11B 27/3027 (2013.01); H04N 21/4431 (2013.01); H04N 21/84 (2013.01); H04N 21/85406 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods, data processing systems and machine readable non-transitory storage media are described that can provide, in one embodiment, a non-time based description of types of metadata in a time based metadata track that can be associated with, in time, a time based media track. The description can include a set of keys, or other identifiers, that specify the types of metadata in the metadata track, and the description can also include values describing the structure of each key and values describing how to interpret each key.