Patent ID: 7685161
Filing Date: 2010-03-23
Classification: G06F,H04N,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A machine-implemented method, comprising: receiving a media stream having a media player attached on a front-end of the media stream, wherein the media stream also includes media data that the media player is to play and includes metadata associated with decompressing frames of the media data, and wherein the metadata provides a mapping for similar data sections appearing in the media data, each similar data section is stored once in the metadata and is mapped to a plurality of media data frames in the media data, and wherein similar means that data sections are identical and stored once in the metadata, the metadata is a character string having numerical positional values that provide the mappings for the similar data sections appearing in the media data, the mappings permit each data section to be populated out of the metadata from a single location to multiple locations within the media data belonging to specific frames of the media data when the metadata is decompressed; automatically loading and executing the media player from the front-end of the media stream; and using the media player to control a remaining portion of the media stream being delivered to a machine that executes the media player.