Patent ID: 6938047
Filing Date: 2005-08-30
Classification: G06F,H04N,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method to process media data, comprising: evaluating data sections for media data frames of media data; iteratively storing similar data sections having similar data attributes in a single data section for a compressed media data, and wherein the similar data sections span multiple ones of the media data frames before being stored in the compressed media data as the single data section, and wherein each similar data attribute exists once within the single data section; generating a meta data structure to identify associations for each of the data sections in the single data section with respect to the media data frames to which the similar data sections are associated; and streaming a media player, the meta data structure, and the compressed media data together over a network; receiving, by a recipient, over the network the media player, the meta data structure, and the compressed media data; and automatically loading and initiating the media player on a computing device of the recipient, wherein the media player automatically executes and reads the meta data structure to decompress and play the compressed media data.