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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2015
Applicant:
Sonic Ip, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Kourosh Soroushian, San Diego, CA (US);
Shaiwal Priyadarshi, San Diego, CA (US);
Jason Braness, San Diego, CA (US);
Roland Osborne, San Francisco, CA (US);
William Frantz, San Diego, CA (US);
Jerome Vashisht-Rota, San Diego, CA (US);
Daniel Salmonsen, Carlsbad, CA (US);
John Funnell, Chandlers Ford, GB;
Michael Floyd, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sonic IP, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/80 (2006.01); H04N 5/783 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04N 9/79 (2006.01); G11B 27/10 (2006.01); G11B 27/30 (2006.01); G11B 27/34 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04N 7/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30056 (2013.01); G11B 27/105 (2013.01); G11B 27/30 (2013.01); G11B 27/34 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01); H04N 9/79 (2013.01);
Abstract
Playback and distribution systems and methods for multimedia files are provided. The multimedia files are encoded with flags associated with the content data of the multimedia files. Through the use of the flags, playback of the content is enhanced without significantly increasing the file size of the multimedia file.